For over 8 eight years, Diwakar Rai has worked for humanitarian NGOs, INGOs and projects funded by USAID, EU, and KOICA related to climate resilience, public health, child rights and child protection, education, and humanitarian response. He has proven experience in desktop publishing for print, web, social media, TV and radio, and writing human-interest stories.
Since 2022, Diwakar has been working as a Freelance journalist. He contributes his articles and video reports to Deutsche Welle (DW Asia) on humanitarian issues in Nepal. His features have been published in a German-based magazine called Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA). During his internship, he was mentored by senior editors of DW Asia. He published news reports on Nepal’s humanitarian issues surrounding discrimination against women, labour migration and untimely deaths, waste mismanagement and health hazards.
Diwakar is hands-on with Adobe software and is also passionate about documentary filmmaking. He has released two documentary films related to child marriage in Nepal and discrimination faced by girls and women during menstruation.