Swedish Slum Dog
One step out of Scandinavia creates several giant leaps for underprivileged communities in Nepal.
DEBBY NG
Patan Durbar Square
A Nepali student from the 11th grade on why her city's ancient district needs preservation.
ALINA SHRESTHA
Beguiling Chapagaun
It's dry in Kathmandu, but in Chapagaun, the water flows.
Geeta Sunam
Photography - A Meditation
Between February and March 2011, with the support of The Patatas, I conducted a photography workshop with some 34 students in Nepal, most of which were from underprivileged backgrounds. During the month-long course, students kept a journal of the lessons they learnt and the reflections they experienced. This is an excerpt from the journal of one of my students, Trishakti Manav.
DEBBY NG
Picture, Reality
Between February and March 2011, with the support of The Patatas, I conducted a photography workshop with some 34 students in Nepal, most of which were from underprivileged backgrounds. During the month-long course, students kept a journal of the lessons they learnt and the reflections they experienced. This is an excerpt from the journal of one of my students, Suman Shakya.
DEBBY NG
Pictures of an Abstract Mind
Between February and March 2011, with the support of The Patatas, I conducted a photography workshop with some 34 students in Nepal, most of which were from underprivileged backgrounds. During the month-long course, students kept a journal of the lessons they learnt and the reflections they experienced. This is an excerpt from the journal of one of my students, Anupama Shree Dhamala.
DEBBY NG
Born into Burden
In a country beset by innumerable social and environmental trials, a handful of perceptive individuals in Nepal are invoking behavioural change through the guardianship of some of society's most peripheral members.
DEBBY NG
Reviving the Bagmati
Bird Conservation Nepal cleans up Kathmandu valley's greatest river and initiates a revolutionary undertaking to restore a degraded waterway.
DEBBY NG
Lasses Rock the Radio
Female radio professionals are taking over the medium in eastern Nepal.
ANUSHIL SHRESTHA
Water in a Bottle
Taps in Kathmandu may be running dry but drinking water is just a phone call away.
SHUVA LAXMI
Out of School and Making Money
Usha Gurung demonstrates that you don’t have to go to college to have a good idea.
ELIPHA PRADHANANGA and JEENA GURUNG
Kathmandu Pleasures
Kathmandu is still a place where one can be at ease, despite all the problems on the streets and the corridors of powers.
DINESH WAGLE
Beg, Borrow, or Draw
Passionate and inspired by his environment, a young boy pushes against the grain of poverty for the right not to beg.
PRATIMA MANANDHAR
Dropping Like Flies
On average, two dead Nepal workers return every day in coffins from the Gulf and Malaysia. Why?
DEEPAK ADHIKARI
Persian Pipe Dreams: Hope or Hoax?
Faced with unemployment and poverty at home, Nepalis dream of becoming labourers in the Middle East.
KRYSTINA DERRICKSON