Chiranjibi Rijal

My affiliation with Red Cross For the 1 st  time, I landed here in Myanmar on 19 th  Dec 2021. During the COVID era, my life was started with lots of COVID restrictions and Standard procedures. As an official mission, I must follow all the safety measures and SOPs. My daily life started with curiosity and adaptation to new circumstances. Since my affiliation with Red Cross, for humanitarian service and support to my project team. The means of transportation, we are using was as usual as available locally. Only Red Cross workers are using the RC visibility to build their own confidence, and protection, and inform others – those are "Red Cross workers". Red Cross is not only an organization, this is a perception, a way of thinking, and a positive beavering. I salute the Red Cross's visibility and its acceptance globally.  Food “Availability and Diversity” As a livelihood and food security professional, my eyes always focus on the “Availability and Diversity” of foods....

  Photo: @csrijal The Shwedagon Pagoda; Mon: ကျာ်ဒဂုၚ်; officially named Shwedagon Zedi Daw and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar.   Wikipedia

    Kishor Atreya   (1)  , Chiranjibi Rijal   (2)  , Prabesh Neupane   (3) Author's Affiliation(s): (1)   School of Forestry and Natural Resource Management, Institute of Forestry (IoF), Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, NEPAL (2)   The Master in International Cooperation and Development (MICD), Mid-Western University, Lalitpur, NEPAL (3)   Shahid Dharmabhakta National Transplant Centre, Bhaktapur, NEPAL ✉ Corresponding author email: k.atreya@gmail.com ABSTRACT The long-term (mis)use of chemical pesticides in agriculture may cause chronic health conditions. The study aimed to assess the relationship between pesticide use in agriculture and the chronic health conditions of farmers. The study was done in two adjoining villages in Kavrepalanchok district of Nepal: Mahadevsthan having high application rates and long history of the use of pesticides in the agriculture; and Nayagaun - relatively low rates and a short history of the us...

After the long COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, I got an opportunity to join 6 days hiking expenditure from Kampala to Rwenzori Mountains National Park along with a  team of 10 tourists from 8 different counties (Nepal, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, San Salvador, Germany, and Belgium).  The Rwenzori Mountains National Park is located at Rwenzori Mountain in Ugandan   and is recoznized as UNESCO   World Heritage Site . Having an area of 1,000 km2 (386 sq mi),  the park has many other touristic plase such as Africa 's third highest mountain peak,  waterfalls ,  lakes , and  glaciers . The park is known for its beautiful plant life. The highest peak of the Ruwenzori is 5,109 meters (16,762 ft) high, and the range's upper regions are permanently snow-capped and  glaciated . Rivers fed by mountain streams form one of the sources of the  Nile (Wikipedia).    The 4 d...

Agriculture seed and tools through voucher modality organized a market fair in West Nile in Uganda.   Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) supported 1300 Households with a population of 6500 people in Bidibidi and Palorinya refugee settlements, including host communities to manage the access of agriculture seeds for food security and livelihoods. A voucher was worth 98,500 UGX ($27), it was included commodities cereal crops and value vouchers allowed to access different seeds and tools for their own crop production. As a long term perspective, targeted beneficiaries could grow their one food in their garden becoming more resilient for food security. In Uganda, farmers are using three  cropping seasons, which URCS is giving of time of 2 nd Season (July-September) planting seeds with this voucher modality. Due to the COVID-19, not as usual operations in refugee settlements, the Government of Uganda’s directives SOP focusing on all the readiness ...

As an official mission with the French Red Cross (FRC) in Iraqi Kurdistan, a new country has been added into my list, with an expectation of new learnings and experiences that I’d be gathering from this new venture . This is my 1st mission in the Middle East. 1 St November 2017 is the day I joined the new job as Project Manager with FRC followed by orientation in the FRC HQs Paris, France. After an official orientation in 2 nd   week  of November , I then directly flew to Duhok city. It was a great deal in my mind, “… Chiranjibi you're going to Iraq” “war… conflict….. new role…. . new  lifestyle…” !! , Oho, “yes”, when I arrived the destination in Duhok, I received a warm welcome by my FRC team in office guest house and in the office too, was observing the scene curiously “a Nepali professional”. I spent more than a decade of my professional career in Nepal and; around seven months in the African continent in Uganda. As a development professional, the only thing ...