Work

Mr. Tejendra Poudel is working as Field Supervisor for CN-CHILDREN Nepal.  His work includes supervising and monitoring family support programs; conducting field visits and family meetings.  People of his community face many difficult situations, especially for families who live in the slums.  Slum children are moving to towns to find jobs but they end up in becoming street children and domestic servants for rich families.  Furthermore the city garbage is very poorly managed.  Also local farmers rely heavily on chemical fertilizers, which are rapidly increasing in price.  At ARI, he would like to improve his capabilities for working in rural settings.  He wants to learn skills and technologies which can be easily and appropriately applied in rural communities.  Especially he is interested in organic farming and farm management.  After ARI, he plans to develop a demonstration farm where people can gain practical skills for organic farming on their small plots of land.

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Organization

CN - CHILDREN Nepal

Nepal suffers from serious poverty and still maintains a strict caste system which is highly prevalent in the rural areas. CN – CHILDREN Nepal was founded as a NGO to tackle issues of poverty and caste discrimination, focusing on marginalized children and their families.  CN supports children, especially those regarded as “untouchables”.  It gives scholarships for such children so they may have the opportunity to go to school and receive proper health care.  It also provides them with additional vocational training for making handicrafts to build up their abilities so that they can eventually be independent and self reliant.  It offers seminars to families on how to save money and how to generate income generation.  CN would like to establish a demonstration organic farm in the future, as it works with children and families in rural areas, where most people make their living off the land.