Bangladesh

This low-lying country is extremely vulnerable to climate disasters and hosts a large number of refugees from neighbouring countries.
Nestled between China and India, the Himalayan country is one the poorest nations in the world.
One-third of the Nepalese population lives below the poverty line. To survive, most families depend on farming and agriculture is the main source of livelihood for 80% of the population.
Due to its location surrounded by the Himalayas, Nepal is vulnerable to natural disasters – intensifying the challenges posed by hunger. Floods, earthquakes, storms, avalanches and landslides are common.
In April 2015, Action Against Hunger responded to an earthquake which left 9,000 people dead and more than 22,000 injured. It was the strongest earthquake to hit the region in decades.
As Nepal recovers, we’re continuing to challenge child hunger by working in six districts across the country.
Nepal has a population of nearly 30 million people.
Nepal ranks 147th out of 189 countries in the Human Development Index.
Sadly, 36% of Nepalese children under five suffer from malnutrition.
We’re keeping up our work fighting life-threatening hunger, including treating severely malnourished children at 30 care centres in the Nawalparasi district.
We’re also continuing our food security and livelihoods activities, which include teaching home gardening and farming techniques.
In the earthquake-affected Nuwakot and Rasuwa, we also concluded our DFID-funded reconstruction and rehabilitation of water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in 2019.
Other areas of our work in Nepal include:
The Action Against Hunger team in Nepal have spread awareness raising messages related to the Covid-19 pandemic through Facebook pages and radio broadcasts.
We’ve also provided personal protective equipment to our health facilities in Nawalparasi District. Around a thousand people also benefitted from the distribution of hygiene kits, chlorine solution, water purification tablets and other hygiene emergency items in quarantine sites.
We reached almost 100,000 people in Nepal through our programmes in 2019.
We have 25 staff based in Nawalparasi, Makwanpur, Nuwakot, Rasuwa, Rautahat and Saptari.
We've been working in Nepal since 2011.
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