Nepal has been in lockdown for over two months, joining the universal experience of uncertainty and confusion created by the COVID-19 pandemic. At first only lightly affected it seemed, the country is seeing a growing number of infections located around the border with...
The HVP schools have been closed for several months due to government rulings to limit the spread of CV-19, and HVP is receiving no school fees or government support to cope with this period of forced inactivity. With cases of Coronavirus increasing in Nepal, this lock...
DISCLAIMER: I volunteered in Nepal in the Spring of 2020, and returned just before lockdown changed everything. My intent for this blog is to provide a recent update on all three HVP schools, in particular the building project at HVP Central and the success of the scho...
HVP Nepal-UK are delighted to welcome Principal of HVP Central, Vishnu Dangi Ji, to the UK for a month of social and professional networking to strengthen the HVP community in the UK, and to gather support for the vital work underway to complete the new building at HVP...
Summer Volunteers from Cambridge University Zoe Maple and Max Khor report from Kathmandu.
During our placements as volunteer teachers at the HVP-Nepal school in Balkumari, Lalitpur, we have experienced a very friendly, welcoming environment where students are generally...
It was a Saturday. On the April 25th, at about 11:55am, I was getting dressed in my room after taking a shower. I was on the fourth floor of our school’s building and suddenly it started to shake. Initially I didn’t recognise it was an earthquake. After a few seconds a...
We've been living in the HVP Central school for 6 weeks now, immersed in both the teaching and day to day hostel life. All the volunteers are together in one shared room whilst the other (en-suite) guest room functions as the nursery, as it has done since the old build...
A portion of the profits will go towards the new school building at HVP Central! Go along if you are near Nottingham, or share details with any friends...
A new hostel building is under construction in the Children's Peace Home in Parsa, Dang. This spacious new building will allow the girls to have a building to themselves and all the scholarship children living on site to have more space to relax outside school.
