Coady Connection Newsletter, February 2024

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Krishna KC

Diploma in Development Leadership (1985) Nepal (currently residing in Toronto) “I got the highest level of satisfaction when I felt I gave all that I could!“

Who did you work for and what was your area of work following your time at Coady Institute?

women, and the vulnerable by taking high-level calculative risks in certain interventions while the fighting was active in emergency countries.

After graduating from Coady Institute, I worked for United Mission to Nepal, Save the Children, OXFAM UK, and Okenden International (a British NGO). For 12 years, I mainly worked with UNICEF, UNESCO, and the International Organization for Migration. I was involved in various areas of project management at field, country, and regional office levels mainly in literacy and education, management, capacity strengthening, and building through coaching, mentoring, and organized training. I was also involved in strategic planning for country programs and community development such as sustainable development, humanitarian as well as relief in emergency countries, and nonemergency countries around the world.

On one occasion, there were many bombs around us, and two powerful rockets landed in our office compound when we were in a meeting in a UNICEF office. I helped the UN staff and moved them to a safe location. There were other times when I negotiated with the government, rebels, and even with UN agencies (internally) for the rights of children – especially rights to education – or took medicines and food to children when the active fighting was going on.

What was the highlight of your professional life? I was recognized on many occasions in countries such as Cambodia and Sudan for working in emergency duty stations such as Sudan, Iraq, Cambodia, Pakistan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Albania for humanitarian activities including building peace. I was happy and took it as an opportunity to serve children,

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I wrote about my life’s work in the book The Journey of Hope & Global Humanitarianism – Creating Paths and Building Foundations for Literacy and Education Worldwide which is my first-hand account of the world of national and international development and relief organizations impacting the quality of life globally. The book is available at humanitarianbook.ca and Amazon. It is also available as an eBook at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Rakuten Kobo, and Chapters-Indigo.


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