Empower Nepal to Rebuild Safer Houses and Schools

The Build Change Nepal team is proud to be growing at a fantastic rate. We have increased our team from eight to 25 in the last few months, including 15 Nepali technical staff (civil engineers, structural engineers, architects, and other construction professionals).

We have produced three technical resources for local partners and the Nepali Government. These include:

1. A demolition and reuse flyer for community members. Already two organizations have distributed over 31,000 flyers in their districts of implementation;
2. A guide for the incremental expansion of a core housing unit for inclusion in the Nepali government house design catalog. This guide fills the gap for homeowners who will be re-building but don’t have the funds to build a complete house safely;
3. A guide for the use of hollow concrete blocks as an alternative technology for inclusion in the Nepali government’s alternative building technology catalog.

Finally, we are very proud to have successfully recruited female technical professionals, with a ratio of 60% women on our Nepal program’s technical team, including our Lead Structural Engineer, engineers, architects, construction trainers and a woman mason!

With your generous support we can continue to empower families and communities to build back better, safer, and faster.

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