Rice planting in rural Nepal is perhaps the most significant agricultural event of the year.

I met my didi early on in my service at the 7 a.m. weekly Saturday meetings held in the center of my village. 

As a Peace Corps Volunteer, there are myriad challenges to overcome. 

Imagine a world without hunger...

The District of Lamjung is suffering from what the local agricultural technicians term "citrus decline." According to local residents, the area used to have healthy citrus orchards, from which many farmers obtained both improved nutrition from eating and income from selling fruit. 

36 years ago, in the Nepali year of 2038 and Gregorian year of 1981, a man named David walked into Jhabindra Neupane’s 5th grade classroom.

Volunteer Sarah Anderson’s village development committee (VDC) is located in the Far West of Nepal and is very large with 37 mothers groups and 13,500 people. 

Watch this 18-minute video on living and working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal. Currently, we have 55 PCVs working as Food Security Volunteers, spread across eight districts in Nepal

Located in the middle hills of Far Western Nepal, Volunteer Garret Morris’s village is certainly on the rise. With great road and market access and attention from various non-government organizations (NGOs) as well as Nepali government programs, the village has seen substantial development in the past few years.

As a Peace Corps Volunteer, you'll likely have the chance to learn a new language during service — and you never know where that will lead you.