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For years we have been lauding plaudits on our students. In fact, considering that all of these students are from highly disadvantaged backgrounds, I have maintained that no other charity or organization anywhere can match our success rate. Finally, I asked our co-director Sanoj Mali...

  Six sponsors from Eastshore Unitarian Church in Bellevue WA are coming to Nepal in late March. The Delegation is led by Doug Strombom as well as Barb Clagett, both of whom have visited Nepal with ANSWER before. Most will spend a week in Nepal...

The Western or Gregorian calendar that we use today was introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII to address the shortcomings of the Julian Calendar.  However, it still took England 170 years to sign on to it! Today, only four countries have not adopted the Western...

On December 1, I left Nepal without ever experiencing the concern or even awareness of any Covid….quite a change from where things were when I had last returned in 2020! New cases were down to single digits per day, few, if any, people were wearing...

The National Education Board has released the results of the SEE (Secondary Education Examination) administered at the end of 10th grade, which is a rite of passage in a student’s life. Formerly known as School Leaving Certificate (SLC), it was commonly, yet ominously, referred to...