Summer is definitely over and autumn is coming. For us, this means reflecting on the current year, approving budgets and setting targets for 2017. Tanja Lirgg has been working for the Usthi Foundation since August to support current and future projects. She will introduce herself personally in the upcoming newsletter. As every year, the visit […]

“The only Thing constant in Life is Change. Heraclitus ’ statement from over two thousand years ago was not only applicable to Usthi in 2015. In Nepal, it only took a few seconds to change the lives of the population completely. Deeply affected by the terrible earthquake in a country where Usthi has long been […]

“The news from India and Nepal that makes the headlines in our media tends to be rather negative. However, during our Usthi visits to India and Nepal, we see a very different picture: children in the slums who spend hours in the tuition centres after school, working hard at their homework in order to later […]