Next steps for Nepal?
I arrived in Nepal last week and the day I arrived the Prime Minister resigned! My week since has been trying to make sense of a multitude of contradictions and intensely complex politics. The...
View ArticleHealth in the Himalayas
This week I’ve been thinking about health a lot. I have two small children who are both adapting well to life in Nepal. But Nepal has different germs to Bangladesh, where we lived previously, and added...
View ArticleOf women and children
Last week I took my first trip outside Kathmandu and flew to Nepalgunj. Nepalgunj is in the Terai. This is a very different part of the country - and is a world away from the popular image people have...
View ArticleWaiting for the rains
We Brits are famous for always talking about the weather, but people here in Nepal are doing that a lot too at the moment. But the different nationalities come at it from a rather different angle. In...
View ArticleBuilding bridges: the lifelines of rural Nepal
I was born and brought up in Bristol, South West of the UK. In Bristol there is a famous bridge, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which I learned at school was one of the first suspension bridges of its...
View ArticleJoanna Lumley, Gurkhas and water
Me with Joanna Lumley at the British Embassy Just in case you’ve missed it - Joanna Lumley is in Nepal this week! She’s been called a “Goddess of Nepal”, and has arrived for the first time to meet...
View ArticleThe monsoon arrives, but too late
A typical paddy field (Credit: Chris Martin) A while ago I wrote about how Nepal was waiting for the monsoon rains to come. Well, they’re here now, but unfortunately things are still not good. The...
View ArticleSarah Ferguson and the life-saving Prime Minister!
Sarah Ferguson meets Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, was here last weekend to see the work that Nepal is doing on health care provision for mothers and babies....
View ArticleBlog Action Day | Nepal’s strange changes in climate
I wrote about how climate change is affecting Nepal a few weeks ago, when I was lamenting that the monsoon was late and then, again lamenting (!) that the rains had finally arrived – too late for a lot...
View ArticleGeri Halliwell and the support for women in Nepal
Geri and the Prime Minister at the launch As you may have seen from the press, Geri Halliwell (ex-Spice Girl) was here a few weeks back as a UNFPA Ambassador to help raise awareness of women’s issues...
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