"Of course I want to go back home. I miss my country."
« Om mani padmi om »… The old woman mumbles while touching the prayer wheels outside the stupa- or gomba- in the Tishaling Tibetan Settlement near Pokhara, Nepal. There are four…
KATHMANDU, Nepal/GENEVA, 8 July 2015 (LWI) - While he could see everyone else run from their homes when the earthquake hit on 25 April, Dharma Lal Shrestha, 63, of Shankarapur Municipality…
KATHMANDU, Nepal / GENEVA, 14 July 2015 (LWI) - School is over in Dunche, the headquarters of Rasuwa district, and 190 displaced children wait in a makeshift classroom for the rains to stop. The school is an…
KATHMANDU, Nepal, 23 July 2015 (LWI) - Rev. Sung-Jin Jung of Korean Diakonia/World Diakonia (KD/WD) and Dr Prabin Manandhar, Country Director of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Nepal, have signed a…
KATHMANDU, Nepal/ GENEVA, 29 July 2015 (LWI) – Three months after the earthquake in Nepal, the need for more durable shelter solutions has become a priority.
(LWI) - “What am I supposed to do now?” Rosni Paryar, 19, looks worried and disheveled when she shows us her collapsed house in Kusunthali village in the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. The top floor of her brick…
(LWI) - They walked for six hours on muddy trails, crossing mountain streams and braving landslides. Many were mothers, carrying small children. They came alone, as their husbands had…
KATHMANDU, Nepal/ GENEVA, 20 October 2015 (LWI) - When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal half a year ago, it seemed to Saraswati Purkoti that life had ended. The single mother of three lost her home and chance of earning some…
GENEVA, 2 November 2015 (LWI) - Lutherans in Malaysia have opened their hearts to the people of Nepal with a significant cash donation for The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) relief work.
LWF Nepal supports networks that empower people living with disabilities
(LWI) – Growing up for Balarni Chaudhary was difficult. She has only one leg and lost her father when she was very young. She felt she was a burden to her family.…
