On February 12, 2013, feeling ready to return to Nepal, I turned down a job offer. All through my student life in Nepal as well as when studying, working, and traveling abroad, I had been doing a number of things in preparation for that eventuality to really fulfill a dream.
Want to learn a bit about the plight of ethnic Tibetans in Mustang, the district I am from, and those of Tibetan refugees in Nepal? Watch the embedded Al Jazeera video.
The first experience Mustang had with development aid was in the nineties, some of which I saw first hand. And they failed miserably! Part of the reason was the condescension with which Kathmandu has always treated Mustang.
Our biggest disaster is our leadership.
Timeline of what happened, why they happened and what should have happened but didn't happen following the biggest natural calamity in living memory to hit the country to confirm just that.
Poverty is an injustice. One of the surest ways of fighting that injustice is by empowering our girls and women.
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Nixon Boumba describing lessons learnt from the Haiti earthquake in "How not to rebuild Nepal" recommends listening to local people, supporting local people and reaching the most vulnerable as the top three things to do. I agree.
Surely there are skilled and trustworthy local people and local organizations. We just need to identify them and support them, if we are to not become another Haiti!