Minimize indoor smoke pollution for women health

The poor marginal women during this quarter from November 2021 to January 2022 have been suffered and affected by heavy rainfall (in Nepal rainy season starts from June-August) which caused heavy losses of Paddy crops which were ready for harvesting and threshing.Paddy crops in million of the ha were damaged and deteriorate the food quality and seed quality.Our flood affected victim families were the major sufferer and directly impacted on livelihood and hand to mouth problems.These victim families are in great shock and stress for maintaining their livelihood.Million of tons of paddy seed used for food consumption were damaged and income almost nill.

In such situation, MRC Nepal organize those victm families in groups and performed socio psycho counselling for the relief of pain and stress.Also MRC nepal lobbyed the group in Local and central government authority for granting any type of subsidy for food and seed materials.Not only these but also MRC Nepal organize these victim families for the implementation of Short run income generation activities such as High value fresh vegetable production program from where they generate the attractive income from the selling of fresh vegetables.MRC Nepal supported them seeds inputs for production,technical backstopping support and Skill enhancement capacity building training.Now the beneficiaries are so pleased for maintaining their daily livelihood and thanked to  GlobalGiving and MRC Nepal. These marginal women also organized for the safe cooking from the portable cookstove as their fuel wood during this rainy season were wet and unable for cooking.

The rural house household in hills and mountains of Nepal are still in miserable situation for cooking their meals because of poverty and unable to buy LP gasses which is costlier and difficult to transport even a day walk by foot carrying on their backbone. So that these families urgently need portable cook stove for their cooking meals instead of firewood cooking for improving health and hygiene.These families are also more suffered by income generation opportunities to maintain their day to day livelihood.Along with these the victims families are also suffered by COVID-19 pandemic.In this regards,the victim families have been suffering from acute hand to mouth problems for maintaining daily livelihood for their dependent families.

In this regards, Our organization MRC Nepal have been playing great role for overcoming these stress and painful situation through awareness raising on social preparion,advocacy,counselling and promotion of quick income generation activities such as Home gardening promotion for vegetable production technologies.Within 2-3 month period,fresh vegetable production technologies have been provided with technical backstopping and skill enhancement training(focuss on ecofriendly production).So that victim families are benefitted from vegetable need in kitchen as well as attractive income from the sale of vegetables.Great support from MRC Nepal in these very difficult situation expressed by victim families in the program areas. The project also provided Fruits saplings for environment protection and income,seeds support for vegetable farming, Cookstove support,capacity enhancement training for vegetable production,improved cooking and technical backstopping support for vegetable production and Marketing.

Now,the beneficiaries are so happy with these counselling support and seed/materials support from MRC Nepal.Thanks to entire GLOBAL GIVING Team for resources generation,said by victim families in the affected areas.