Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — nepal

About a year ago, we asked you, our faithful Breadpig legion, to decide where we should donate $53,000 of profits from the XKCD book sales. We're now proud to show you where your money has gone: into a cheerful new preschool in Sri Lanka and an awesome new library in Nepal!

Handprints at the Early Childhood Development Center Just a few hours before flying out of Kathmandu, I met up with Luna and fought through some intense traffic to visit one of her ChangeFusion fellows' operations. When Luna found out that I had spent some time working in prisons, she insisted that I make time to visit Pushpa Basnet's Early Childhood Development Center. Looking back, I could not have found a better way to spend my last day in Nepal. (ZOMG ALL THE PICTURES OF KIDS) Pushpa was out of town for a conference in Japan, but her Early Childhood Development...

Luna and Rafael of ChangeFusion Nepal Luna Shrestha Thakur left Nepal as a teenager because she found its patriarchy suffocating, especially for bright, independent young women like her. For ten years, she traveled the world and learned about different cultures and societies: she was so inspired by what she encountered that she wrote a book, A Journey to the Self, and published it for other Nepali youth with similar questions. The reception to the book was so positive that she returned to Nepal to speak and, eventually, founded an incredibly promising organization aiming to inspire a new generation of dreamers...