Nepal - by Kiran Kreer https://imkiran.com/stories/countries/nepal/ Sat, 02 May 2026 13:34:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://imkiran.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-kirankreerlogo-favicon-32x32.png Nepal - by Kiran Kreer https://imkiran.com/stories/countries/nepal/ 32 32 Being Paralyzed But Doing Something That I Can First https://imkiran.com/being-paralyzed-but-doing-something-that-i-can-first/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 08:26:17 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5004 “To me it’s okay if I lost my legs. Even if I lost the ability to walk, I’m just thankful that I’m still alive. I have my hands, I have my eyes, my mind and I have my life. I have many plans for myself. Now I will work hard to regain my strength first, […]

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]]> A Day In My Life | Learning How Not To Walk (Nepal) https://imkiran.com/a-day-in-my-life-learning-how-not-to-walk/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:01:52 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4879 A time stamp photo series of my 24 hours spent in the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre, (SIRC) in Nepal. The only centre where mainly earthquake related patients would come to get treatments. Paralysed and loosing the ability to walk, something we take for granted, the ability to function normally as others and learning to adapt into a new […]

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]]> Children Wanting Solar Lights For Reading | Nepal Earthquake https://imkiran.com/children-wanting-solar-lights-for-reading/ Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:57:43 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4849 We walked around with bags full of solar lights and handed them out to those elderly and mother with babies. We went to an emergency camp site in Kathmandu where thousands of earthquake victims are still living in tents. Many of them who are homeless. We only had 100 Nokero solar lights to give out […]

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]]> A Teacher Who Lost Everything | Nepal Earthquake https://imkiran.com/a-teacher-who-lost-everything-nepal/ Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:47:20 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4819 It was a big day in my life, after the earthquake here in Nepal. I didn’t have any expectations on what it will be like spending 24 hours in a spinal cord injury centre, a rehabilitation centre. Staying awake for that many hours was hard at first but slowly my motions and mind got adjusted […]

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]]> What I Learned From Nepali Women During Teej Festival https://imkiran.com/what-i-learned-from-nepali-women-during-teej-festival/ Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:23:20 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4710 Images from a recent festival here called Teej. Welcoming the monsoon season and is celebrated primarily by girls and women, dress in red, with songs, dancing and prayer rituals. Women pray to goddess Parvati seeking the wellness of their husband. They fast a full day for the long lives of their husbands. The single girls […]

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]]> Thoughts Of A Homeless https://imkiran.com/thoughts-of-a-homeless/ Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:29:47 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5129 Sometimes you come along and I see you just being there. Silent. Just then time stood still between us. You are there on your own now, I am here just passing through. I wish to do something, but I don’t, I won’t. I ignore you as you don’t mean anything to me, you ignore me […]

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]]> Mother’s Cry For Help In IDP Earthquake Camp In Kathmandu https://imkiran.com/mothers-cry-for-help-in-idp-earthquake-camp-in-kathmandu/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:03:23 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4721 “We have no where to go. I’m trying to gather five to seven families here to rent a piece of land nearby, so we can start building our new home. It won’t be like our homes before but it would be a start. With the little money we have, we can start a small house […]

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]]> Helpless Gurung Child | Voices Of Nepal https://imkiran.com/helpless-gurung-child-voicesofnepal/ Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:10:58 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4699 Title: Helpless Gurung Child At the village north of Dhading, a Gurung child looks out from her door when a relief aid team passes by, while her mother stands by her side. Gurung people also called Tamu, are an ethnic group from different parts of Nepal, many who are homeless today after the earthquake. (Dhading, […]

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]]> Building Homes at 80, After Nepal Earthquake https://imkiran.com/building-homes-80-nepal-earthquake/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:12:27 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4702 “Tell me why are you always helping others to build their shelters?” “I help them build it so later they will help build mine. Because I know I’m old and I can’t do it alone. And we are all here as part of a family.” “So what’s your secret? You are about 80 years old, […]

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]]> Blind Tamang Harvesting in Jharlang, Nepal https://imkiran.com/blind-tamang-harvesting/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:15:29 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4705 Tamang people in Jharlang. A local working on his corn harvest. He is partially blind and deaf, yet he sits here daily preparing his harvest for the week. In the high, rugged hills of Nepal, you’ll often encounter the Tamang people, many of whom are subsistence farmers, their lives intrinsically woven into the soil and […]

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]]> My Days During Aid Relief After The Nepal Earthquake https://imkiran.com/image-series-recent-aid-relief-earthquake/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:05:52 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4737 Series of some moments captured during my second trip to Hokse, Palanchok. A mountain village where the earthquake had destroyed most of the houses and many lives. A grass-root volunteer society, Secret Garden Disaster Relief is currently doing a special project there to relocate 42 families that are currently living on a landslide zone. The […]

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]]> My Name Means Light | Voices Of Nepal https://imkiran.com/my-name-means-light-voicesofnepal/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:30:04 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4691 I met her at a yearly festival called ‘Gai Jatra’ where they celebrate the death of a loved one. This year they paraded with pictures of more children, more parents and many of those who lost their lives in the earthquake. “My family lost our home and the shop after the earthquake. I was there […]

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]]> The Bihar, Teenage Mother | Voices Of Nepal https://imkiran.com/the-bihar-teenage-mother-voices-of-nepal/ Sat, 29 Aug 2015 14:26:17 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4687 “I am 18 and I have 2 kids. My first child is three years old.” She is from Bihar, India. She lives in this basement home, underground, renting it of a Nepali house with 10 others. A small wooden plank bed shared by the whole family. A common toilet that looked like an open sewer. […]

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]]> The Hokse Student | Voices Of Nepal https://imkiran.com/the-hokse-student-voicesofnepal/ Sat, 22 Aug 2015 14:46:51 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=4674 The Hokse Student. Thousands of children in Nepal have been effected after their schools were destroyed by the earthquake. Today many of them go to make shift schools, temporary sheds or have classrooms in the outdoors. She is one of the students in a village called Hokse, she loves reading and singing songs with her […]

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