DDHCFN supports Nepali organizations that reach out to their neighbors in need.

In Nepal, if you are poor and have no children to care for you in your old age, you have a big challenge. This was the situation for Ramesh and his wife, Jaya. Their local church in Palpa wanted to help them, and tasked its social outreach team to find a sustainable way to do so. The team wisely consulted the couple, and together they made a plan. In his younger years, Ramesh had raised chickens. Since he had never owned his own land, he had done so on other people’s farm

Sasmita has rushed back from the weekly women’s prayer meeting to meet us. She opens her tiny storefront with a flourish and beams a bright smile. “This is my shop!” she announces proudly. “It has two corners.” In other words, the shop is split in two, with a hand-painted sign in between. On one side is a “five & dime” of sorts. Measuring about 10 by 5 feet, it displays a colorful assortment of packaged snacks and shampoos dangling from the low ceiling. Stuffed in shel