- PHASE Worldwide

Practical Help Achieving Self-Empowerment: Improving health, education and livelihood
opportunities for disadvantaged people in extremely isolated Nepalese Himalayan villages
PHASE specialises in working in extremely
remote areas
Places with scant resources, difficult terrain, no
transport links and very few or no basic services.
PHASE works in sustainable ways
We involve local communities in programme
development, have a commitment to
strengthening government services and aim to
make a difference but not to stay.
 Working in partnership with the government we
provide additional health staff, medicine,
management, medical education, equipment and
outreach clinics.
 Our trained Auxiliary Nurse Midwives provide
health education, family planning and maternal &
child health care. They support preventative health
programmes such as childhood vaccinations,
respond to emergencies, act as dentists and as
rural GPs - treating all common problems, from
minor injuries to typhoid fever.
PHASE takes an integrated approach
Poor health, limited education and food
insecurity are aspects of the same problem and
create a cycle preventing people from taking
control of their own future.
PHASE has demonstrated success
Between 2006 – 2013 we treated over 230,000
patients in 13 health centres for an average cost
of £2 per person. At least one child’s life is saved
every month. 294 women completed our literacy
classes and we have trained 306 teachers. We
have provided 647 farmers with agricultural and
livestock training.
Education
Health
 We improve literacy and numeracy, giving children
and adults more opportunity and choice. Adult
literacy rates are very low in remote regions of
Nepal. Being able to read makes a huge difference
to quality of life.
 We support government schools with
infrastructure, enable more children to access
education, run adult literacy classes and train
teachers.
Livelihoods
 We promote better fertilising techniques to
 We improve hygiene and sanitation by supporting
increase yields and introduce cash crops: fruit,
vegetables, tea, coffee and spices.
families in building toilets and improving water
supplies.
 We run animal husbandry programmes and train
 Cervical cancer is the most frequent cause of
female cancer mortality in Nepal. Working in
partnership with the Nepal Network for Cancer
Treatment and Research and British medical
professionals, we improve cancer screening and
treatment through training local medical staff.
communities in skills such as bee-keeping.
 Families then have produce to eat and surplus to
sell – an important difference when it comes to
purchasing necessities.
 Our savings and micro credit programmes for
mothers groups help families in difficult times.
"PHASE staff help us have healthier, safer pregnancies. Before, nobody had checks during pregnancy, now all the pregnant women go to the PHASE clinic for
health checks and iron tablets” Pema Dhiki Lama (29 years), Chhekampar, Gorkha (5 days walk from the nearest road)
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Tel: 01709 789 004