By Kristen Johnson | Communications and Fundraising Specialist
With Gratitude for Your Support, PWA Is Closing Our Nepal Recovery Projects
PWA's recovery projects in Nepal are now complete; together we have achieved our goals.
Following the 2015 earthquakes, Peace Winds America reached out to assist women and girls.
With your help, we partnered with a local NGO to build three community centers where women were able to work and learn skills to improve their livelihoods. These Centers provided the women and girls a safe, functional space to gather and were also important in fostering women’s economic recovery after the earthquake. One Center provided equipment and training for weaving handloom fabric. These women produced beautiful dhaka and sold them in the Katmandu market. The two other Centers also opened opportunities for entrepreneurial development; women in these centers began processing and marketing vegetables and dairy products, and even producing candy. Access to new skills and technology through our recovery efforts allowed these women to bypass the middleman and achieve higher rates for their products. These community centers are now self-sustaining operations run by these women, resulting in community-owned and operated enterprises by those who were severely impacted after the earthquakes.
Peace Winds America also targeted water and plumbing destroyed by the earthquakes in the Ramechhap district. With your help, Peace Winds and a local NGO restored much of the water systems, installing piping, wells, irrigation systems, and lavatories near schools.
PWA will continue to monitor these project outcomes, which you can follow on our blog.
Your generosity made our response in Nepal possible. Thank you kindly for your support to help Nepal recover.
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