Community Organizing to overcome Poverty in Nepal

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Community Organizing to overcome Poverty in Nepal

	Summary Marginalized rural families overcome poverty by organizing into groups to undertake savings and credit, intensive gardening, tree-growing, animal health and income generation activities. How Donors Like You Helped Thanks to donors like you, a total of $400 was raised for this project.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Ramechhap is one of most deprived and inaccessible districts in the Himalayan region of eastern Nepal. Poverty, food insecurity, declining soil fertility, scarcity of fuel wood animal fodder, indebtedness, lack of health care and drinking water, and illiteracy are key problems. Within remote mountain villages, this program targets socially marginalized groups within the caste system, and also women. These people lack skills, knowledge and organization to become more self-reliant.

Activities

Form savings & credit groups, pool resources to construct drinking water systems, set up literacy centers, promote fast growing trees and grasses to provide fuel wood & animal fodder, improve vegetable production & improve soil fertility with compost

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $400

Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $400as of Feb 26 2004. The original project funding goal was $30,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Project goals are to promote self-reliant groups, reduce dependence of exploitative money lenders, improve food security, and increase revenue from crop and animal production.

Project Message

In Ramechhap, there are 200,000 people scattered on the ridges, slopes and valleys. The majority are caught in a downward spiral of debt and malnutrition. TSS is committed to reverse this trend.
- Jagdish Ghimire, World Neighbors Area Representative