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.