(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…
Many of you may remember that last Christmas we raised money for a Girls Empowerment Programme in Rugin. We have just had the 6 month report from Nepal which you can read here. This year we’ll be asking for support for our ‘Stay Strong Appeal’ as we move on from…
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…
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…
Bhabana (on the right of the photo) is from Dailekh in Karnali Province, next to Sudurpaschim Province where Bajura is. She has been an ANM for 4 years but has been only working for PHASE for just under 2 years. She was previously working in Dhailek District Hospital for 2.5…
Dilys Noble, a trustee and coordinator of our GP Mentoring Scheme, recently travelled to Far West Nepal to visit some of our project areas. In the following blog post, she recounts her experiences and gives us an insight into what it is like to live and work within the remote…
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