On October 16, 2017, Barbara Foundation launched Barbara Adams Talk Series, with its maiden episode concluded with an energizing deliberation between distinguished panelists amid enthusiastic audience. The show was titled “Rapid Economic Transformation in Nepal: What will take and where do we stand?”

Nepal witnessed incessant rainfall in the second week of August 2017. The flooded rivers and streams inundated many districts in the eastern Terai. Saptari, Sarlahi, Rautahat and Chitwan were the worst affected districts that saw hundreds of deaths, thousands rendered homeless and millions lost in properties.