TAILORING
Very popular with women, this course teaches them everything they need to know to open a tailoring
shop in their own village or town. Each woman has access to her own sewing machine throughout the
course and learns to sew 24 different types of garments including a traditional woman‟s dress and a
child‟s school uniform. Some women use the garments they sew in class for themselves or their families
while others use their class projects as the starting point of a business and sell them to their neighbors.
INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINE
INSTRUCTION
Very popular with women, this course teaches them Course participants achieve proficiency on a modern industrial sewing machine so they qualify for
employment in a commercial garment factory.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Designed for students and young adults, this course equips high school and college students and careerage
young adults with new skills to enhance their education and employment capabilities.
ANIMAL FARMING
Teaches modern commercial farming methods to enable families to scale up from raising a few animals
for personal use to raising more for commercial sales.
Chicken farming – 24 families
received the support of chicks (200), feed and equipment
Goat farming – 14 families
received mother goat support
(5-6) and a Boer Buck Breed
in each group.
Pig farming – 3 families
received the support of 7
piglets
GREENHOUSE VEGETABLE FARMING
Each course participant individually receives 1 day of instruction on greenhouse farming and then, with
the course facilitator working alongside them for 2 days, builds his own greenhouse with plastic sheets
and bamboo.
SOAP MAKING
Participants learn how to make and package soap with ingredients and materials that are readily available
in Nepal
COMMUNITY SAVING & CREDIT UNION
CHFN works with village residents who completed our Livelihood
Trainings to form a Savings &Credit Union so members can save the profits from their new livelihoods
and take small loans for their business expenses. CHFN provides passbooks for each member, guides
each new Saving & Credit Union with setup and rules and gives guidance during their monthly meetings.
MICRO-BUSINESS STARTUP
Selected families are given support worth NPR 35,000 (about US$310) as startup money for a family-run
business. Families are evaluated according to their skills and guided in all aspects of choosing, starting
and running a small business. The main goal is to increase family income so parents can remain at home
with their children rather than take low-paying, menial jobs in another city or in a foreign country.
Recipients according to business type:
Tailoring – 8 families (8 families received support of tailoring machine and clothes to start up business)
MEDICAL CLINIC
CHFN brought 8 doctors (2 ophthalmologists, 2 orthopedics, 1 gynecologist, 2 general physicians, 1
cardiologist), 3 nurses and 2 pharmacists as well as our own staff to Bhanu Municipality in Tanahu
District. During a 2-day period, 930 people were treated for a variety of health conditions. Many of them
were elderly men and women whose health had been neglected by their families or had no one to look
after them. About 500 people received reading glasses. One elderly woman said she could now see her
grandchildren‟s faces again for the first time in many years.