Category: Covid19

• Nepal records the highest daily increase in death since the beginning of the pandemic as the country faces a major surge in COVID cases. Only 1% of the landlocked country’s population is fully vaccinated.
• Read more on Reuters here.

• As cases surge, another government-mandated lockdown starts in Kathmandu to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
• Hospitals are already full. Vaccinated NYF staff members set up COVID isolation facilities.
• Read more about NYF’s COVID isolation center.

 

• Inspired by the new Olgapuri greenhouses built during the lockdown, NYF launches SAAET – a new vocational education training program for women in rural Nepal.
• Read more about the SAAET Project.

• All NYF staff members at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Home and New Life Center receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Staff members at Olgapuri Children’s Village are in the process of getting vaccinated.
• Read more about NYF staff members getting vaccinated!

Most of the children at Olgapuri Children’s Village are now attending in-person classes at school. Home-schooling is provided for those children whose schools have not re-opened.

India (and China to follow) donates 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal. The first 500,000 healthcare workers in Nepal have begun to be vaccinated.

• Moving carefully to ensure COVID-19 stays out of these villages, NYF finishes the year with an additional 30 education centers in Gandaki Rural Municipality.
• All 80 satellite centers continue to run for over 9,000 children who are still out of school.

• An additional 46 Access to Education Centers open in two rural municipalities in Dhading District.
• With an average of 100 students per satellite center, NYF provides 5,000 K-10 students with educational opportunities they haven’t had in six months, and mobilizes 354 teachers who are already on the Nepalese government’s payroll.
• Read more about these new Access to Education Centers.

• In September, the MoU for the emergency women’s shelter (previously signed on June 17, 2020) is revised in order to become an isolation facility for patients infected with COVID-19.
• NYF provides isolation services to 46 people in total: 24 women and 22 men