Mitch’s reflection: As of early afternoon on Thursday, September 10th, fifteen days after the horrific Nepal flooding of August 26, 2026, the numbers are staggering. From just this tiny, narrow river corridor, comprising the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers, where the damage only extended about 40 miles, there have been 1,367 bodies recovered, with an additional […]

Lora writing. Each fall that we have been here has brought national grief: widespread flooding in 2024, the political uprising in 2025, and now, yesterday, there was devastation in Nepal, perhaps unlike anything that has ever been seen. The video footage is awful (and I would recommend that you don’t watch much of it, if […]

Lora writing. One of our major tasks of the summer was sharing about the work of UMN. Mitch and I both love our work and think the work of the organisation as a whole is pretty amazing too. So, this task was not difficult. I preached 10 Sunday morning sermons and spoke to three high […]

In my last post, I announced the start of the PCC funded “AI for Good Pilot Project” at the UMN office in Kathmandu (Thapathali). We have changed the name of the project to: “AI for Poverty Reduction in Rural Nepal” to make it more descriptive of what we are trying to accomplish. A big first […]