Aanchal Dutt returned from New Delhi to be with her family in her hometown of Surkhet during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today she runs a thriving business, The Cake House, and also teaches English at Kopila Valley School. 

Aayush Pokharel will soon be graduating from his diploma programme in Canada, and so his search for a full-time job has already started. He’ll have three years to work in the country before leaving or applying for permanent residency. For now he says he wants to come back to Nepal. 

After more than a decade working in the retail sector in the Persian Gulf countries of Oman and Dubai, Bharat Adhikari and his family decided it was time to come home. He describes the aha! moment when he returned home from work one day and realized that his mother and daughter had almost everything that money could buy to make them happy living overseas – but not a community. 
Today he works as Operation Manager at SalesBerry department store. 

Dr Rojina Shilpakar is a burns surgeon and Deputy Medical Director at Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital. She's also a Global Trainer and the Regional Asia Clinical Lead for Interburns UK.

Kishor Kumar Rai is Head Teacher at Bhanu Jana Secondary School in Phungling, Taplejung District. In 2003 the school teamed up with the Human Practice Foundation to build the IT Academy on its premises. 

Manjeet Dhakal is Head of the LDC Support Team and Director, at the South Asia office of Climate Analytics. 

When we talked to Pragati Nepali, she was planning to migrate to Jordan in December 2024 to work in a garment factory. In the long-term she was hoping to open a clothing design business in her home district, Mugu, after her three-year contract ended.

Prakash Gurung has been applying to work or study abroad since he finished high school, with no luck. Having studied hospitality management college, he seems to be one of those people who could earn enough money to get by in the capital Kathmandu if they found a job, but who think they could do better working overseas, even if it means doing the same work. 

Pramod Acharya is an investigative journalist covering migration, including the treatment of Nepali migrant labourers in Persian Gulf countries. His reports on Amazon treatment of workers in its warehouses in Saudi Arabia and about the mistreatment of South Asian labourers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have won multiple awards. 

Prem Awasthi is a Planning Officer at the United Nations in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Raj and Sunita Tamang met while they were both working in Persian Gulf countries. They married and returned to Nepal, and soon after Raj applied to migrate to work in South Korea. 

Sadikshya Bhattarai is Assistant Director at the Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility (CESLAM), at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu. 

Sagar Shrestha is Director of the Disaster Management Department at the Nepal Red Cross Society. 

Sudipa Poudel was a nurse in Nepal for a decade before she moved to Canada in October 2024 to study for a Master of Nursing degree at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.