{"id":7268,"date":"2017-08-08T16:13:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?post_type=stories&p=7268"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:16:25","slug":"nepal-farming-economics-helps-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/nepal-farming-economics-helps-all","title":{"rendered":"Nepal: O programa de agricultura e economia da ADRA ajuda todos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beryl Hartmann tinha acabado de come\u00e7ar um est\u00e1gio com a ADRA no Nepal quando encontrou uma mulher que mudou o rumo da sua carreira. Beryl partilhou connosco a hist\u00f3ria de uma professora e l\u00edder comunit\u00e1ria de uma das muitas comunidades rurais desfavorecidas do Nepal que est\u00e1 a capacitar as pessoas para mudarem o seu mundo para as gera\u00e7\u00f5es vindouras.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more than a decade,\u00a0Niruala\u00a0Shrestha and her community have devoted themselves to creating a brighter future for their children. It hasn\u2019t been business leaders or even community elders who have driven this vision forward–but women like\u00a0Niruala, who\u2019ve kick-started change from the ground up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nala, Beryl told us, was a region without hope. The community\u2019s agricultural backbone had been exploited by the corporations of Kathmandu. Families went hungry, children were denied an education, and the women were abused. Sadly, it was the women of\u00a0Nala\u00a0who suffered the most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut she\u2019s more than a teacher,\u201d Beryl said. \u201cNiruala\u00a0leads a women\u2019s cooperative in planning, funding, and implementing a raft of community-driven improvement programs.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It started with literacy and health education, before ADRA introduced training in\u00a0agricultural and financial skills, helping families in\u00a0Nala\u00a0to achieve a more substantial and\u00a0stable income. In many cases it was the women who benefited most; the skills they learned\u00a0unlocked an equality they\u2019d never had before.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ADRA then helped farmers diversify crops and increase productivity. A collection center,\u00a0which served as a community-owned and operated wholesaler, was established, enabling the\u00a0community to demand higher prices for their produce and taking away the bargaining power of\u00a0the big grocers from Kathmandu. During the harvest season, up to 20 truckloads of produce\u00a0would be purchased from this center each day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then ADRA introduced microfinance training and established a women\u2019s savings club, which soon\u00a0grew to more than 1,000 members, leading to the establishment of a women\u2019s cooperative group\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is this cooperative, with the support of ADRA\u2019s ongoing leadership training, that\u00a0Niruala\u00a0is driving to improve\u00a0Nala\u00a0and the lives of its people. Some of the changes the collection center and cooperatives have generated in\u00a0Nala\u00a0are obvious–things such as new toilets, family-owned scooters zipping about as they do business, and children smiling as they walk to school. But some of the most important changes risk going unseen, because what you don\u2019t see is the fact that the women of\u00a0Nala\u00a0have discovered economic freedom.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to ADRA\u2019s training and their own commitment to change, women like\u00a0Niruala\u00a0have taken out life-changing loans or won grants to start and grow their businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In many cases, the women are becoming the breadwinners of the family! What an amazing change. But more than providing freedom from poverty, this type of empowerment has freed the women from something far more troubling–abuse. You see, before ADRA came to Nala, almost every married woman had experienced abuse. Today, not one woman in Niruala\u2019s community is beaten by her husband\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Because despite still not experiencing cultural equality, the women of\u00a0Nala\u00a0have economic\u00a0power; they are the only ones who can access loans from the women\u2019s savings cooperative. The\u00a0men know it–and they love it. At last, the women of\u00a0Nala\u00a0are seen as valuable and abuse has\u00a0all but disappeared. We can praise God for that!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beryl Hartmann had just begun an internship with ADRA in Nepal when she encountered a woman who changed the course of her career.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,780,615,589,795,1053],"tags":[1147,873,426,1020],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-asia","category-blog","category-livelihoods","category-nepal","category-volunteerism-service","tag-farming","tag-justice-compassion-love","tag-volunteer","tag-womens-empowerment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46825,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/46825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}