Shanti Nepal

Primary Health Care and Resource Center (PHCRC)

Primary Health Care and Resource Center (proposed) is a historic and model community health center located in Chapagaun Village Development Committee of Lalitpur District. The center serves about fifty thousand poor and middle class people from twelve rural and semi urban communities in south Lalitpur. It provides integrated essential primary health care services. United Mission to Nepal (UMN) established the Chapagaun Teaching Health Post in 1972 and started some pioneering work. In July 2004, UMN handed over the health post to the local government, it is now governed by a local management committee and with operational management overseen by Shanti Nepal. The center is a model for the Public/Private NGO Partnership strategy of the government of Nepal. The teaching health post has been upgraded to a health center and has allowed for significant improvement and expansion of health and training programs.

Integrated Primary Health Care Project (IPHCP)

Shanti Nepal started IPHCP as its first outreach project in July 2005. The project endeavors to address the primary health care needs and to improve the health status and life quality for the Chepang, one of the most marginalized ethnic communities. It also serves other poor communities of the district. The project was started in three remote Village Development Committees (VDC), Jogimara, Dhusa and Mahadevsthan. These locations have dense populations of the Chepang and a few other struggling ethnic communities. In July 2006, the project was expanded to three other poor communities in the district, the Dhola, Maidi and Muralibhanjyang VDCs.

Badarjhula Community Health Project (BCHP)

This is a partnership project between Shanti Nepal and the ‘Up Lift Program’ run by the Human Development and Community Service (HDCS). This project was started in Dec 2005 to address the basic primary health needs of Badarjhula, an isolated poor community located in southern boarder of Chitwan District in the Ayodhyapuri Village Development Committee. The community consists of about four hundred households, made up of sixteen struggling ethnic groups, who have settled in and are cultivating part of the jungle without legal status. The community has very low socio-economic status and is living in scarcity of services including basic health services.

Social Welfare Program (SWP)

In addition to the health and development projects in rural communities, Shanti Nepal has a small program entitled the ‘Social Welfare Program’ through which we provide physical, psychological and spiritual support for the poor’s immediate needs.


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