Protecting the Rural Poor in Nepal
Human Rights Defender:
Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN), a Nepal-based non-governmental organization that believes that the rural poor are confronted by four basic, interlocking problems:
- poverty,
- ignorance,
- disease, and
- civic inertia.
Rights:
To participation, to development
Action:
Organized around the precept that the rural poor have the potential for self-development, but just lack the opportunity to release this power, RRN has established multi-purpose training centers that encourage human resource development at both the community and the organizational level. The centers are fully equipped with modernly-furnished halls, an overhead projector, television screen with video cassette recorders, a kitchen, dining room and a dormitory. Under its human resource development focal point, RRN provides practical training in agriculture, kitchen gardening, nursery raising, bio-intensive gardening, and community forestry.