Category: Covid19

• By recommendation of The Social Welfare Council, NYF pauses the pop-up nutrition kitchen program. With people resuming work and receiving an income again, there is less urgency for free meals.
• NYF will continue distributing Lito packages to families in need, and will be ready to resume the pop-up kitchen program if it is needed.

NYF resumes the operation of our Nutritional Rehabilitation Home (NRH) and New Life Center program. With restrictions being lifted, NYF anticipates more and more hospitals will begin referring children with malnutrition and/or HIV to our facilities.

• With ongoing public school closures, students are starting to fall behind. To combat this, NYF begins a trial run of a new village-based learning program, called Access to Education, in Dhading District. The pilot program receives enthusiastic support from students, teachers, and parents.
• Read about the beginnings of NYF’s Access to Education program.

 

• Though the government has relaxed its restrictions, Olgapuri remains strictly on lockdown. The children continue to stay at home, attending virtual classes every day.
• NYF’s Vocational Education team starts a new mobile training program in order to serve students safely during COVID times. 135 students join in July, and NYF considers plans to continue the program even after COVID times.

• In response to the hunger crisis caused by the lockdown, NYF begins distributing packets of Lito — a type of ‘super flour’ made of roasted and ground corn, wheat, and soybeans — to keep urban families nourished.
• Read more about NYF’s Lito for Life program.

 

• “Nepal families face hunger, skip meals as pandemic hits remittances,” writes journalist Gopal Sharma. For the months since the lockdown began, individuals have not been able to work. Forced into tough decisions between rent and food, many are going hungry.
• Read the article on Reuters here.

• On June 17, NYF signed an MoU with the Lalitpur Metropolitan City to use the Nutritional Rehabilitation Home (NRH) facility as a free quarantine space and shelter for women (and their children) returning home from abroad. The first group of nine women arrive at the facility on June 18, 2020.
• Click here to read more about the Emergency Lifeline Halfway Home for Women.

 

• In response to rising food costs in urban areas of Nepal, NYF begins a pop-up Community Nutrition Kitchen program in Lalitpur to provide hot, nutritious lunches free-of-charge to children.
• Click here to read more about our pop-up Community Nutrition Kitchens.