Gaining ground on the Millennium Development Goals, with equity, in Nepal

From a distance, perched on a pretty Himalayan hilltop, Shiradi village looks like many other villages in the far west of Nepal, but it's not. Like other villages, it's poor, rugged and remote. There are no real roads, no electricity and no services. But this is also a village where only the 'lower caste' live and, more unusually, a village where no men reside. click here to read more http://www.unicef.org/mdg/nepal_56213.html

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• Nepal
• equity
• UNICEF
• dalit
• untouchable
• poverty