From Trash to Treasure – PSD’s Sustainable Plastics Project Community Awareness in Thamel. written by Bishnu Bhatta, PSD Nepal director We have recently completed a community awareness focused exhibition located in Chhaya Center in Thamel, Kathmandu, an event that was a resounding success for PSD’s Plastic Project initiative. Focused on…
by Bishnu Bhatta, PSD-Nepal CEO Photography for Change ICE (Institute for Collaborative Education) Youth Arts, Writing and Photography Program, New York, USA Since 2015 ICE and PSD Nepal have been working with the Tri-Ratna Co-Operative School (TRCS) in Bungamati, Nepal. The shared work we have done with TRCS has been…
Written by Bishnu Bhatta, director of PSD Nepal Plastic Project in Langtang Region: 4Cs that Protects the Mountains1. Current Situation and Proposed Module Human encroachment on nature has caused air pollution, water pollution, soil erosion, melting mountains and reduced agriculture productivity. More importantly, it has now dramatically changed the inhabitation…
written by Bishnu Bhatta, director of PSD Nepal ‘The early childhood group environment has a very crucial role in children’s learning and development. Young children are in the process of rapid brain development. We as an adult should acknowledge our minds rapidly develop with every new experience. Their external and…
Bishnu Bhatta, Director of PSD-Nepal, recently attended the Grand Challenge Annual meeting in Belgium where he gave a presentation about the work of PSD. Attendees at the meeting included representatives of the Bill Gates foundation, the Wellcome Trust, USAID, EU donors and many more, so it was a wonderful opportunity…
Experience of Volunteers We – Anna, Ellie, Molly, and Libby – are English volunteers through Bristol Volunteers for Development Abroad (BVDA) who have come to Nepal to work with our partner PSD with the aim of making a sustainable difference in a rural community in the Baglung district. We arrived…
Nepal has tremendous opportunities on the beekeeping due to the richness in the honeybee’s species and the availability of plenty pasture diversity. The beekeeping in Nepal contributes to the economics boost up of the rural and marginalized landless farmers. Besides the economic contribution from the bees’ products, beekeeping enhances the…
By: Bishnu BhattaDirector – Partnership for Sustainable Development The world is becoming increasingly industrialized, with pollutants and contaminantsreleased into the environment constantly. Nepal and the South-Asian region arenoticeably polluted. As such, more deliberate and increased efforts are required tocreate positive environmental & social change. Partnership for SustainableDevelopment (PSD) is a…
Nepal has a lot of plastic waste – and when I say a lot, I mean really a lot! It’s one of the negative side-effects of having so many trekkers coming through, drinking from plastic bottles, and not wanting to carry their waste. Each bottle thrown away on its own…
Here follows some information sent through by Bishnu, our partner in Nepal, about the work that PSD-Nepal are carrying out to help with promoting and developing community gardens, even where the only open space is on the roof! Community and School garden in Nepali context Nepal has been an agricultural…
