(Name changed) Srijana, a 21-year-old pregnant woman lives in a family of nine members, including her husband, two children, in-laws, and brother-in-law. Her mother-in-law works as a cleaner at the Rugin Health Post, while her husband supports the family through goat and sheep herding. On 29 June 2025, she delivered…
(name has been changed) Urmila is a 21-year-old pregnant woman she lives with her husband and mother-in-law in a small household of three. The family survives on subsistence agriculture and daily wage labour. Her pregnancy was planned, and she attended all eight antenatal check-ups supported by PHASE. Her expected date…
Our ‘Big Give’ Christmas campaign raised a fantastic £25,271 towards the Girls Empowerment Programme running in Rugin, Bajura, along with our Big Give Champion The Coles Medlock Foundation. Thank you so much for the kind and generous donations! 6 months in, we’re delighted to share the impact report and some…
This week we were over the moon to receive letters from some of the students at a partner school in Rugin, Bajura, Far West, Nepal. In autumn 2024 girls at a school in London wrote letters to the students in Rugin. After the letters took a long journey on several…
We are so excited to share that we have now completed our Start Strong Project in Rugin and Bichhya, Bajura, Far West Nepal. As a UK Aid Match-funded project, we could not have achieved the positive outcomes we are evidencing without your dedicated and generous support. On behalf of our…
We are really excited to launch our Big Give Christmas Campaign this year where all donations will be DOUBLED! We have worked with the community in Rugin for several years now. And have made a significant impact in the increase of births conducted in a safe health facility rather than…
Imagine having a baby when you are only a teenager yourself. Imagine being forced to stop your education. Imagine having your future decided for you. This is the reality for many girls across the world as a result of child marriage. The global picture of child marriage… Child marriage is…
We are so pleased to be able to update all our wonderful PHASE supporters with the progress of our Start Strong Project at the end of Year 2. The Start Strong Project was designed at the request of local communities to improve access to maternal healthcare and to reduce malnutrition…
The Start Strong Project: Improving Maternal Health and Reducing Malnutrition in Nepal for 1,000 women and their children in Bajura, Far West Nepal. The Start Strong Project is an integrated three-year UK Aid Match project, working to embed maternal and child healthcare knowledge and skills within the healthcare system and…