I am into month 10 of being a parent for the first time and our little boy is keeping my wife and I very busy. Finding the time to plan (let alone take) a trip to Nepal feels almost impossible right now. I was therefore delighted to receive a message from one of my Global Action Plan colleagues, Amy Wilson, asking if she could help out for a month or so in Nepal for The Glacier Trust.
Last month our NGO partners in Nawalparasi, HICODEF, organised a field trip for farmers in involved in our ‘Layer Farming for Adaptation’ project. These farmers are learning how to grow and - as importantly - process, market and sell coffee as a sustainable development and climate change adaptation strategy.
Join Narayan Dhakhal (EcoHimal) and Dr. Morgan Phillips (The Glacier Trust) for a conversation on their climate adaptation work in Nepal.
This 90 minute event is an opportunity to hear first hand from EcoHimal's Executive Director, Narayan Dhakhal who will have just returned from monitoring and delivering our joint projects in Kavrepalanchok, Sankhuwashabha and Solukhumbu.
Narayan and TGT Co-Director, Dr. Morgan Phillips, will reflect on the roll of agro forestry in climate change adaptation; and the success of the community-led Deusa Agro Forestry Resource Centre and how it is now being replicated and scaled up in new locations.
Narayan will report on all the latest developments, with exciting news of new project work starting in Khotang.
There will be time to ask questions about the impacts of climate change in Nepal, what can be done to enable people to adapt to its impacts, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our project work; and our future plans.
It is with huge sadness that we report the loss of our dear friend and colleague Mr. Surbir Sthapit, Executive Director and founding member of HICODEF, who died yesterday (October 20th, 2020) from COVID-19, aged just 53.
Surbir Sthapit in his office during our last monitoring visit, Oct. 2019.
He is survived by his wife and two sons. Our thoughts are with them, Surbir’s wider family, his friends, and everyone at HICODEF.
HICODEF has been one of The Glacier Trust’s longest standing NGO partners in Nepal and Surbir has been the driving force behind the innovative and highly effective projects we have worked on together for nearly a decade.
We are devastated to have lost Surbir from the TGT family. He has changed attitudes, lives and life chances of so many people, enabling them to adapt to the impacts of climate change, recover from earthquakes and to develop the prosperity and health of their land, villages and communities. He was a true changemaker.
We will remember him fondly and with the deepest feelings of love and respect.
We will miss you Surbir ji.
