BAJURA, MARCH 3

Food materials were distributed to 95 families of Rudi village at Swamikhapar Rural Municipality in Bajura today. Nepal Rising and Engage Nepal have provided financial support for the same.

Rural municipality Information Officer Kuber Shahi said rice, pulses, cooking oil, soaps, and masks, among other materials, were distributed among the impoverished and families affected by COVID-19.

Vice-chair at Nepal Rising Rajesh Shrestha said the materials were distributed to people suffering from acute food crisis.

A news report on the shortage of food in the village was published in this daily. Locals looked elated after receiving the food materials.

People in the village were hit by food crisis. The pandemic had also added to their woes.

Gorakh BK, a local, said the villagers were relieved .

The malnutrition rate among the children and mothers of the Golden Thousand Day scheme has also been increasing in the village. A local teacher Dan Bahadur Dhami said children, pregnant women, new mothers, among others, were suffering from malnutrition.

He added that the malnutrition rate had increased in the past eight years in the village.

Dil Bahadur Dhami, a local, said as many as 156 families faced acute food crisis throughout the year. He said the support provided to the locals at present was great help.

Volunteer Bina Bhul said women and children were susceptible to malnutrition as they did not have green vegetables and fruits among other food items. Locals said fertile land had turned barren as the channel was swept away by dry landslides. They said the channel had yet to come into operation after it was destroyed some years ago.

The village is also at high risk of dry landslides.

People are suffering from various diseases as they have nothing to eat in the house.

The dry landslides had also claimed three lives, while ten families were displaced some years ago and fertile land had been destroyed.

A version of this article appears in the print on March 4, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.