Today, at the start of Dashain, a 15-day long national festival extraveganza, Anne Sanquini, released an outstanding docu-drama she, NSET...

Communities are intimately involved in school construction here. They are, more than any other group, the ones that watch each brick laid...

We are back in Kathmandu and meeting with the organizations the will drive school reconstruction – engineers from the Ministry of...

What a difference a donor’s expectations make. In our Sindhupolchowk field work, we found three school building projects that illustrate...

We’ve spent the last several days out in rural Rasuwa, a district right up along the China border and studded with unbelievably steep...

We’ve finished our first set of schools and tomorrow we’ll finish our second. Our routine is becoming predictable. We wake up early and...

Gopal refers to a hill in the north of the Kathmandu valley. The hill rises steeply for nearly 1000 meters and is tightly terraced with...

The school we visited today was constructed with breath-taking shoddiness. We could see rusty reinforcing steel protruding from under the...

In our one hour taxi drive to interview a school this morning, our driver shared his own story about failed school construction. In his...

The monsoons started yesterday at 5am. I awoke to the familiar, but intense sound of rain on rooftops and pavement. Though the sound of...