Save life of flood affected victims in Nepal

This year in Nepal followed late rainy season which retained till October. In Nepal, this year in October also occurred heavy rainfall for a week resulting heavy flooding and heavy landslide in hills of Nepal affecting more than 25 districts. The heavy flooding affected and damaged many hectare of fertile agriculture land. Many roads and national highways damaged and blocked for many days. More than 235 death and many more missing. The country lost million and millions of the nepali rupees. 

In such situation the flood affected victim families need long run income generation activities. For this MRC Nepal introduced off season vegetable production practices to the poor rural women in rural areas for generating attractive income from the selling of off season fresh vegetables products. The organization supported high yielding improved seeds, production materials, bio fertilizer, technical backstopping support and skill enhancement capacity building training to the flood affected victim families who are GlobalGiving direct beneficiaries.

As a result and performance of the best technology the poor beneficiaries are capable of meeting household kitchen requirement of vegetable daily and also receiving attractive income from the selling of vegetables. So that the technology address on livelihood improvement of flood affected victim families. The under nourished and mal nutritioned children and families secured balance diet through consumption of fresh vegetable all year round. Because vegetable are richest source of vitamin, protein, minerals and roughages.

At the end the beneficiaries thank to MRC Nepal and GlobalGiving in. their own voices.

This reporting period May to July, 2024 is the time of mid rainy season in Nepal. During this time majority of people are engaged in agricultural farming where the people invest their time and farming for ensuring foods for all year round. This is specially for staple food crops. There is also equally important for growing off season vegetables production for ensuring kitchen needs and generating attractive income for maintaining their better livelihood. In this regards MRC Nepal provided off season vegetable production technology to the poor producers where high quality seed support, training , and technical backstopping support with the little financial suuport from GlobalGiving. Now, 80% of the crops are in establishment and growing phase and 20% are in harvesting and marketting phase. The 20% marketting phase bring attractive income from the sale of their vegetable products getting higher price in market.  So that all producers are very happy and encouraged to be actively involved in commercial vegetable farming which really transformed the psychological treatment from the shock of flood affected. In this regards the victim said thank you to GlobalGiving and MRC Nepal.