Tirtha Maya Rai, aged 100, laughs while on a walk at Nepal’s only government run old aged care home, Pashupati Briddhashram in Kathmandu, Nepal, 20 February 2017. Tirtha Maya was left by her parents at the bank of Bagmati River when she was born. Since then she has been living at this old age home and never got married. Run by the Nepalese ministry of social welfare, the home houses 221 elderly people from all over Nepal who have no one to care for them. By 2050, the number of people over 65 in Asia is predicted to triple, and while ageing populations are a global issue, Asian nations are at the visible forefront of the change. The burdens of family aged care have hit Asia especially hard, where the idea of aged care homes, is not a traditional concept for many Asian nations, as it is in the West. For those without a caring family, life can be harsh with no social system to cope with them.
काठमाण्डौ : आज अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय खुसी दिवस । संयुक्त राष्ट्र सङ्घको आह्वानमा सन् २०१३ देखि हरेक मार्च २० तारिखका दिन यो दिवस मनाउने गरिएको छ ।
खुसीको महत्त्वलाई पहिचान गर्नका लागि दिवस मनाउन थालिएको हो । सन् २०१५ मा संयुक्त राष्ट्र सङ्घले १७ वटा दिगो विकास लक्ष्य घोषणा गरेर गरिबी अन्त्य गर्न, असमानता घटाउन तथा पृथ्वीको रक्षा गर्न प्रयत्न गरेको थियो । यी तीनै प्रयासले नै संसारमा खुसी छाउने संयुक्त राष्ट्र सङ्घको विश्वास छ ।
राष्ट्र सङ्घको दिगो विकास समाधान नेटवर्कले अस्ति सार्वजनिक गरेको विश्व खुसी प्रतिवेदनले दक्षिण एसियाली देशमा नेपाल सबैभन्दा खुसी देश भएको देखाएको छ । प्रतिवेदनका अनुसार यो वर्ष नेपाल ५ दशमलव ३७७ अङ्कसहित सूचीको ८४औँ स्थानमा छ ।
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