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With Ms Doris Schmidauer, motivator, consultant and wife of Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen, we have won a prominent supporter for PHASE Austria. We are proud and happy to have additional support, especially in these challenging times. Ms Schmidauer commented: “I am impressed with the long-term volunteer commitment of PHASE Austria, which makes sure that women in the extremely poor villages of Nepal’s mountains are able to give birth safely, that their children don’t suffer malnutrition, and have access to education and better life chances.” © Wolfgang Zajc Next, we will explore other possibilities of support from Ms Schmidauer and plan an event together. We are very much looking […]

Our most recent newsletter has just been published. To view it, please click here. Unfortunately, the newsletter is only published in German, but should you wish to subscribe, please write us an e-mail to newsletter@phaseaustria.org – we will be glad to add you to our subscribers’ list!

Time flies! This months, it will be exactly 15 years since the foundation of PHASE Austria. At the start we were a small group, but we have developed into an important mediator and supporter in development. For fifteen years now we’ve promoted and supported PHASE Nepal’s projects and thus help our Nepalese colleagues to sustainably improve the situation and life chances of people in remote and disadvantaged communities in Nepal. Access to healthcare, education, and income as well as promoting empowerment are at the core of our projects, which are documented in detail in our annual report. Looking back, it was a steep learning curve on principles of rural development, […]

In the two health projects in Mugu funded by Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung and Austrian Development Agency via PHASE Austria, we can report the following results for the quarter from January to April: A total of 2,948 patients were seen in the outpatientclinics, of whom 1,261 women and girls. PHASE health staff delivered 57 babies,of which 28 were home deliveries and 29 births were attended in birthingcentres – a good sign that were these facilities exist, acceptance is high in arelatively short space of time (the birthing centre in Bama was established only 2 years ago, the one in Dhainakot only very recently). Family planning services were delivered to 206 women and […]

Lovely Rosie Swale-Pope is currently running from England to Nepal for PHASE – on 26 May she will be in Vienna. Of course we are planning to give her an appropriate welcome. Join us at 12 am at Heldenplatz for a meet and greet! Rosie is one impressive lady – 2003 to 2005 she went on ‘Just a Little Run Around the World’ in support of cancer research. And after that, she didn’t stop and took on challenge after challenge, for instance a run across the US. Until she broke her hip in 2018 – while doing her laundry! The doctors didn’t give her much hope she would walk, let […]

Our Integrated Project to Improve Maternal and Child Health with a Focuson Nutrition in Mugu in western Nepal will be funded by the Austrian Development Agency for an additional three years. The project aims to reduce maternal and child mortality in one of the poorest and least developed districts of Nepal, in particular by improving health services and nutrition for mothers and children in two rural municipalities. The project continues the ADA-funded framework programme in the region and is part of an integrated programme in the district which includes a nutrition and agriculture project that mainly aims to improve food security by introducing greenhouse vegetable gardening and improving small animal husbandry.

Around this time of the year, things tend to be busy, but it is also a good time to look back and be grateful for all the good things that happened last year, for all the support we received, the positive feedback, everything that went according to plan … We would like to thank all PHASE members, our donors and supporters, and wish them all restful holidays and a very happy 2019!

A lovely short film introduces our maternal and child healthcare project in Mugu which was awarded the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Preis für medizinische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. The film was shown at the award ceremony in November 2017, and beautifully illustrates PHASE’s integrated approach: health, education, and livelihoods projects combine to empower people in these remote villages and encourage them to advocate for their rights themselves. We would like to thank the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung for usage rights and Ms Simone Utler for this film and in particular for preparing an English version, too!