• Marginalized and underprivileged community (Tamang Community)
• Willingness of the community to be engaged in the project
• 67 households only, ideal for the pilot project
• Easily accessible from Kathmandu
• there are 67 households.
• the population is a total of 395, 170 men, 154 women and 71 children.
• they mostly depend on rainwater for irrigation.
• they favour vegetable-production.
• the local farmers mostly use cow dung as fertiliser.
• they have still not been declared an open “defecation free” zone. Some of the common diseases are water related, skin, eye infections, etc.
• waste-management is done through burning waste in an open pit.
• most of the houses use wood-fuel for cooking (wood from logs, sticks or twigs) which carries with it a number of health-related risks;

Following the earthquake, VFC Nepal received financial assistance from BVS Nepal to set up transitional metal shelters (TMS) with sanitation (toilet) facilities, and provided each household with solar panels, lights and mobile chargers;

In the first phase of RFC, we successfully built 55 TMS, toilets and distributed solar lights

Our team and technical team has already met several times with the local population and individuated 11 community leaders among the villagers, that will be responsible to help us engaging the community in all the components of the project;We have already had a first survey and need assessment