Working towards Zero Hunger in the Far West
World Food Day 2018 We are working towards #ZeroHunger in the Far West of Nepal, with the help of the UK Government. Tom has just got back from Nepal and, while there, he visited our project in Mugu...
A legacy gift in action – Kashiguan Health Post
We have recently reached the end of the first year of the Kashiguan Health Post project, located in the Gorkha region of Nepal. This project, funded by a generous £7,500 legacy gift, has enabled thousands of people to access...
Rebuilding Communities in Gorkha with BLF
The Big Lottery Fund (BLF) supports our ‘Rebuilding Communities’ project in Nepal. This combines education, health and agricultural training programmes as well as infrastructural re-building work. This is a five-year project and we are pleased to share with...
Tackling Malnutrition in Mugu, Nepal. A Three Year UK Aid Direct Funded Project
This project aims to fight malnutrition in Mugu – an extremely remote, rural and hard to reach area of Nepal. It will do this through increasing skills training opportunities, increasing awareness of nutrition and increasing pressure on local government...
Meet Sangita…
“This is Sangita. At just 20 years old she has been running the health post in Manbu with another health worker for several months. Sangita grew up in a small village in the hills about a day ‘s journey...
PHASE DFID Project 2014-2017
PHASE has recently finished running a three-year project (July 2014 – July 2017) funded by DFID which aimed to reduce maternal and child mortality among the marginalised populations of 18,000 people in far west Nepal. Through improving access to...
A GP’s visit to far west Nepal with PHASE
GP Sarah Watson and her husband Ant volunteered in Nepal with PHASE in March 2015. We are back at home after another trip to Nepal with PHASE, enjoying – slightly guiltily – the pleasures of living in the...
Nepal staff receive training in cervical cancer screening
PHASE’s Nepalese health staff received training for the screening of cervical cancer in February 2015. – Dr. David Nunns, a PHASE Trustee and Chair of the PHASE Colposcopy Group. “Cervical cancer is a major cause of female death in Nepal....
Up and Down the Himalayan Foothills, by Dr Anne Urquhart
Arrival… The chance to travel to remote rural Nepal for a short 2 week placement, mentoring young nurse midwives, arose back in 2013 when I read an article and then met a colleague who had done the same 2...
Twins Babies in Kashigaun
Mag is a 17 year old girl from the north Gorkha region of Nepal. Until recently she had never seen a health worker. Mag explains – “I live in a rural village named Kashigaun in a northern part of...