This article was written by Jyoti Bhattarai, Director of WMF Nepal’s home for widows, “Prem Ghar” (Home of Love).
It is disgusting me very much to hear the Nepal government’s finance minister, and his budget speech for the fiscal year 2009/2010 . He has promised to reward widows who are willing to remarry 50,000 Nepali [...]
From Brook Birch, September 2008.
Over the past several years here in Nepal, I’ve learned a lot about death and losing friends to drugs and other drug related diseases; most recently our friend Kamal Shresta, who passed away this past June. If I’m completely honest, Kamal was always a fairly difficult guy to be in relationship [...]
By Brook Birch, September 2008.
This last week our community had a week of prayer together. We met three times a day for an hour each to pray for unity and to seek God about where our community’s focus needs to turn. It was a really good time … kind of hard at times to push [...]