Clean up Nepal conducted a capacity building workshop with the aim to segregate waste at source in 500 households being served by Waste Concern Pvt Ltd- a private waste collection company working in the Koteshwor area. Clean up Nepal trained their staffs on Waste Segregation, 3Rs, Composting and Impacts of Waste Burning on Health and Environment. The trained staffs will…
A baseline survey on the household waste management of 487 households in Koteshwor was carried by a group of volunteers of Clean up Nepal. Some interesting findings were: It is mostly a residential area where 98% have already joined a waste collection service. In addition, 36% say they segregate their waste (22% have separate bins) while 26.5% compost their organic…
The Green up campaign for this year has been launched. Through Green up campaign Clean up Nepal is determined to plant 10,000 trees inside Kathmandu valley by 2030. Along the bank of a small rivulet on the lower land of Balkumari chaur at Sunakothi, Clean up Nepal and Kosis group with support from volunteers from Rotaract club of Rudramati Babarmahal…
Green up Nepal is an initiative of Clean up Nepal that started in 2016 to encourage and empower youth groups, individuals, organizations and other stakeholders to plant more trees in urban areas of Nepal to combat the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. This year, the Green up Nepal campaign kicked off on Earth day and will run until the end…
Shree Panchakanya Primary School at Nuwakot invited us to attend their 40th Anniversary. Program included prize distribution to students, honor program for elderly citizens and inauguration of new classrooms and latrines. During our first visit on 19 August 2015 students were studying under temporary shed. And, the sanitation condition was poor the school had no latrines. Clean up Nepal decided…
With the theme “Promoting Community and Environment Sustainability”, a team of 30 students and teachers of Xavier International College conducted a cleanup at Bagmati-Makalbari area on Saturday from 8 am till 9 am and collected around 100 kilograms of waste. This event was a part of week-long celebration of World Social Work Day. Clean up Nepal supported the event by…
Clean up Nepal in collaboration with NEPSEMYAK Sewa Pvt. Ltd. and Nagarjun municipality distributed 1200 bins to the community of ward number- 2, Nagarjun municipality as part of the waste segregation pilot project for 500 households. “असल हातहरु सधैँ साथमा, हाम्रो वातावरण हाम्रै हातमा |” The program was inaugurated by presenting flowers as a token of appreciation by Amod Karmacharya,…
Date: 7-9 January 2017 Art is one of the best forms of communication! We just painted the newly constructed latrine walls at Shree Baluwa Secondary School with messages on sanitation and hygiene. We expect these messages will remind and encourage students to follow proper hygiene behavior to keep their latrine clean and regularly wash their hands with soap and water.…