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The Nepali Times - Kokroma creates jobs during lockdown

For Gurung, the lockdown provided an opportunity to take time to assess the potential impact on her business. Well stocked with raw material from the prison, and already in the planning stages of ...

Tech Times - Kokroma

In 2015, Gurung attended a summer school in Finland, during which she learned about the impacts of ‘Finnish Baby Box‘, a cradle along with a package of clothes uniquely designed for newly born infa...

OnLine Khabar - How Rewati Gurung was inspired to start Kokroma

Diwakar Pyakurel's article in OnLine Khabar from December, 2019 "Rewati Gurung was well-exposed to the western world during her formative years. She studied English literature in her master’s firs...

myRepublica - Child and maternity care the Nepali way

Nepali families have been using things like mustard seed pillows, clothes made out of Dhaka, and kokro (a cot – typically made from bamboo – used to carry babies) for centuries for maternity and ch...