Rural Activities
Introduction
"Faced with the many hardships of life in rural Nepal, CWS/N set up simple yet highly effective facilities together with these villagers, to improve their lives, and especially those of their children"

Nepal is known internationally as the birthplace of Lord Buddha, the great Prophet and the home of Mount Everest, making it a popular tourist destination. Foreigners come here to appreciate the basics of a pure and simple life. They experience a life style that has long been forgotten in the West. However, this enjoyment is experienced in the knowledge that they can easily escape if the situation becomes difficult. Life becomes a struggle and one can return home to the comforts and safety of home……

Sadly, for the people living in Nepal, life is somewhat different.

Around 85% of the population live in picturesque villages in rural Nepal.Apart from a small amount of trading, people survive on what they are able to grow in their fields. There is little electricity, nor are there any roads to the nearest town, usually several days' walk away. If people need to go to hospital they have to undertake

this long and difficult trip. The child mortality rate (for those under five years old) is quoted at a national average of 10.4%, but is often far higher in these areas. This simple existence is difficult, young children die of preventable diseases that many doctors in developed countries have eradicated long ago. CWS/N works with thirteen of these communities and helped them in set up and help them to manage their own Day-Care/Health Centres where their children receive primary health care and learn and play in a safe haven. Alongside, the program has implemented an Improved Cooking Stove Project as a preventive health measure, and have also provided two communities with water supplies.

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