Written by Kyle Krym, Aythos's Agriculture Programs Intern As part of my internship, I’ve recently been designing and conducting multiple staff capacity building trainings. Topics of trainings have included creating Google Forms, drafting project proposals, making flexible budgets, using statistics, designing surveys, and analyzing and visualizing data. These trainings have gone quite smoothly over Zoom and have also been a lot of fun, serving to further solidify our close wo

From 1996 to 2006, Nepal was engulfed in a civil war. In April 2015, the country was ravaged by a massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which was followed 17 days later by a 7.3 aftershock. With one third of the population affected, thousands lost their lives and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. Schools, health centers, roads, water and power systems were destroyed. Poverty deepened in a country which was already one of the poorest in the world. In 2010, 25.5 percent of th