Art for Social Change
Chhaupadi promotes violence against women by isolating them, making them vulnerable to abuse, and reinforcing inequality by labelling them as impure during menstruation. On the occasion of November 25th — International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women — we want to call for this issue not to be forgotten Unfortunately, compiling a complete […]
What are we asking for? The idea is to bring menstrual health to all menstruating people on this planet, do we agree on that? But we cannot forget about this planet! Asking for accessible menstrual products and not specifying that they should be reusable and environmentally friendly is to forget that we are part of […]
This years follow up trip with the girls was really different to last year. Firstly, as planned, we decided to do all of the menstrual cup donations and trainings during the first trip to Achham in the Spring. We wanted to use the September trip solely for the “follow ups”, with more time for the menstrual cup users to identify any […]
Before we left to Achham for the Project follow up, we spent a day in a children’s home in Dhulikhel conducting a full puberty curriculum, sexual education, and menstrual health management training. We had been asked to do an intensive training, with a special focus in empowering the girls in self love for their womens’ […]
Kalagaun is a beautiful place. Green and peaceful. When we arrived everyone was very curious about us – especially the boys and girls! As usual, we were working with class 6-10. The teachers had prepared the hall for our program but everything felt like a race against time. The children were at school for just […]
We hope 2018 has begun with joy and harmony. The whole be artsy team has started the year with great enthusiasm, as we have been working hard over the last few months to analyze the data collected during our last trip to assess the impact of the 2017 Rato Baltin project. We have been encouraged […]
By the end of June, after our trip back from Kalikot, I was impatient, for September to arrive and go back to Achham and Kalikot to check on the results. Each time we return to the villages, the accumulated tiredness there, and all the things I have seen and experienced do take their toll. Many […]
21-8-17. Because in as Rachuli we couldn’t work with the group of women, here, in chilkhaya I didn’t accepted a no as answer, and i propose to do it, even if it was only for 2 days and at the the time that they wanted, and they accepted. It was not very numerous, because it was […]
If at all anywhere, we had a list of girls who wanted menstrual cups, from way back, it has been in Chilkhaya. As we explained in the last article, the classes were a minimum of 70 participants, the majority of these being girls. In this case though, each day we had a minimum of 100 […]
20-7-17 During the 10 days we have been in Chilkhaya, what has surprised us most is the number of students attending the secondary school (from class 6 to 10). We attended classes with 70 students, “luckily” missing 70 or 80 more. That is, the list of students for these classes was up to 140, 150. […]