“Everybody Can Serve”- Celebrating the Power of Inclusive Volunteering

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ENGAGE together with the support of VSO/ICS celebrating a power of inclusive volunteering to promote awareness about people with disabilities can be active agents of change through volunteerism. Also bringing all the organizations and institutions working in disability and other fields together in order to create more inclusive society by providing a platform to have new partnership.

Kidney patients infected with hepatitis. Let’s get the Government pay the bill

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In world where fairness and justice prevail, common sense would prevail too and accidents like the one recently happened at the Human Organ Transplant Center should be addressed with max urgency. It does not happen only in Nepal, it can happen also in more developed countries but the rule of law would prevail and impose justice and fairness. Let’s demand it.

Abortion, a question of morality and human right (abridged)

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Abortion is a criminal act in the Philippines. Still it takes place across economic strata and educational levels. The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law passed in 2012 seen by its advocates as a measure to prevent abortion by providing citizens with adequate and proper sexuality education and access to contraceptives has yet to be implemented.

The Government of Nepal should endorse the National Volunteering Policy asap

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Nepal is well positioned to be a leader in the promotion of volunteering sector within SAARC Region but first it must get approved its draft National Volunteering Policy

The problem with aid? That it must be spent at all cost.

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One of the problems with aid money is that resources must be spent. One of the reasons for this is that there is a great deal of pressures (and interests) from many sides about spending money even when it would be much better keeping them on hold.

STILL THERE IS SOMEONE WHO HAVE TIME FOR OTHERS

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        She is the role of model, a mother to the orphans, a light of hope for the women rescued from darkness and a true civilian to the country. A thin women in her late fifties she looks much younger than her age. She make a deep confidence on people heart that humanity still exist. A person is there who still has time for others and who still fights for the rights of women. She is well known social activist known around the world; she is the legend-Anuradha Koirala.

Stills from "YERMA: A poetic tragedy in Nepali"

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"Following the much praised production of In the Red and Brown Water, this OWT paired production shares the theme of a woman yearning for a child and searching for a self-identity. The play has tremendous resonance in Nepal where a woman is often defined by her role as a wife and mother, and a childless woman can be devalued and replaced by a second wife.

Celebrating International Volunteer Day 2014 in Kathmandu

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Today we celebrate International Day of Volunteer.  It should be a big deal for many of us as the role of volunteers not only in Nepal but also all over the world should be always recognized and appreciated. Yet who is a volunteer? How can we define a person as a volunteer?

Part time, full time, formal, informal, religious, and traditional or even political activism?

There are so many ways to look at volunteerism.

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