After more than a year of communication with Sunita, Sabina, and Bimala didi, from Saughat Lollipop Industry in Sindhuli, and with GreenGrowth, I finally made it to Kathmandu! While many of my extended family members live in Nepal, I hadn’t visited in four years due to COVID-imposed travel restrictions and…

On March 10th, I found out that I was to receive $5,000 USD in grant funding from MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation challenge, and more specifically the Girls Save The World Award that was in partnership with the company HP! Along with the monetary award, MIT Solv[ED] was also shipping three…

Over the past three months, I worked relentlessly on an application for the MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovator Challenge. …

After 14 months of working with Sunita, Sabina, and Bimala didi, it was finally time to wrap up our work with the candy co-op. These months have been eventful, to say the least. From planning remote work to designing the internship, learning about the ingredients that make up the milk…

Co-op travels to Kathmandu After the productive Hetauda trip that Sunita, Sabina, and Bimala didi took earlier this month, we set our sights on a research trip to Kathmandu. As the capital, Kathmandu offers many more outlets and an even bigger market opportunity for the milk candy co-op. When the…

Following the wildly successful Hetauda trip, the candy co-op plans to take our project a step further. In Hetauda, we killed two birds with a stone — we took care of certification and explored another market beyond Sindhuli. So what next? The answer was obvious, Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu. We…

After weeks of planning, Bimala didi, Sunita, and Sabina got on a bus to Hetauda, a city about 150 miles west of Sindhuli. The purpose of this trip was to find information on market possibilities outside Sindhuli and someday even be able to branch out to Kathmandu. Following calls back…

In August, with support from the MIT Solv-ED team, we designed a survey to gather information from store owners/operators in Sindhuli. Our goal was to understand how locally-produced food items found their way to these stores and how the store owners determined what would sell and what they would stock…

Technology is an entry into sustainable design, it allows farms and markets to evolve together. To get more of an insight into how online marketplaces work in Nepal, I sat down with Saurav Dhakal, the founder of Green Growth, a registered company based in Kathmandu. …