Business as Unusual: the case for a corporate sector engagement with disabilities

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Disability is on the side lines, it is neglected and not given the due importance. Yet corporate sector could take advantage and make the best of the skills and resources of persons living with disabilities. It takes time, call it a journey but it is worthy and most importantly it is doable

Drawing the Tiger By Amy Benson and Scott Squire [Documentary Crowdfunding Announcement]

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"A family in Nepal living on less than a dollar a day wins the globalization jackpot: a charity scholarship for their daughter to go to school in the capital city. She promises to return, to free her family from poverty.

But she does not return. Drawing the Tiger is an intimate portrait of the price one family pays for their golden opportunity."

 

A Garden Gazebo @ Yak and Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu | Veneeta Singha

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From an afternoon in the gardens of Yak and Yeti Hotel, Kathmandu

Interview with Anna McKeon, Communication Consultant, Better Care Better Volunteering Network ( Part I)

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A multi agency initiative, Better Care Better Volunteering Network promotes ethical alternatives to volunteering in children homes. Anna, in this first part of the interview, explains why it is not ethical to volunteer in residential children care centers, offering some interesting options that can help harming the children. The Second Part of this interview will be published on 10th of April

Lee Kuan Yew, not a saint but surely a trailblazer in a Singapore that is still a work in progress

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Singapore, despite remarkable success, it is still a work in progress. Though not a paradise on earth, the incredible story of this tiny island state was written by Lee Kuan Yew and a bunch of other incredible pioneers. It showed the world (and to China) that development can happen also through the "Asian" way but certainly this is not the "end of history" for Singapore.

Communicating Kathmandu: Empowerment in Relief | Veneeta Singha

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Empowered as we are with an enlivened world and clear air, our built and experiential systems are emerging to fill a void and, indeed, necessity. The grain of all inventions makes us smile often and venerate a distant lesson and existential paradox. “There were fragments of statuary everywhere.”

A Computer Comes to Karjanha VDC

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An relative living abroad makes it possible for some village children to have a computer

Learning from the Teach for Nepal Model to Provide Better Healthcare Across the Country

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What if the Government developed a program to provide School Nurses or Health Assistants in schools throughout Nepal to create better healthcare.

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