IN THE NEWS
July 19, 2016
On a sultry and overcast afternoon in Kubhinde village, Beda Maya Nepal clears out the twigs and branches lying in her pond. She then takes out a bucketful of water and pours it over her vegetable garden.
April 28, 2016
In March, I traveled to Haiti with other international development leaders. There is no getting around the fact the country remains mired in poverty, earthquake destruction and political instability.
March 24, 2016
Srijana Thapa is South Asia Regional Director of World Neighbors, an international development group that has worked in Nepal for 43 years. She spoke with Review Nepal about the trade embargo and its effect on her group’s rebuilding and other work in Nepal.
March 8, 2016
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 killed more than 200,000 people, caused widespread devastation and posed even bigger challenges to the already poverty-stricken Caribbean nation.
February 24, 2016
Can nations in Africa and other parts of the developing world leapfrog over the use of fossil fuels and go straight to renewable energy sources?
October 11, 2015
Recruited for the chief executive position of World Neighbors, Kate Schecter said she admitted to the board when she interviewed that she, until then, had never heard of the Oklahoma City-based nonprofit international development organization.
May 14, 2015
The Improving Community Resilience in Oecusse Project will assist 25 communities in 13 villages in the Municipality to have better access to clean, safe water, improve sanitation and hygiene practices, and strengthen community organizations to operate and maintain water and sanitation facilities.
April 30, 2015
PRESS RELEASE - World Neighbors has worked in Nepal during the past 5 decades. Our immediate response has already begun. We have an extensive network of rural communities in at least 11 districts that need our urgent help.
July 21, 2014
PRESS RELEASE- World Neighbors, an Oklahoma City-based nonprofit organization founded in 1951, announced today that its Board of Trustees unanimously supported the appointment of Dr. Kate Schecter as the organization’s next President and CEO.