Art for Social Change
It is very common for the girls in Achham, a remote zone in far-west Nepal, to be out of the school system because of the financial situation of the families – most men have to go to India to work and the daughters are asked to stay at home to help with the household chores […]
We have a new crowdfunding. We have been offered an opportunity to which we have not been able to say no! I tell you: the crowdfunding platform ‘Migranodearena’ Foundation has offered us to join the Matchfunding #T2M‼ 🎉🎊 And you will wonder 🧐 and what is it? 🙂 That is the opportunity to get 1,500 […]
In times of crisis, solidarity is one of the most precious values and, even more, in these times of Covid-19, in which sustainable and respectful projects with the environment and with people like Himalayan Paradise help us to continue helping. Himalayan Paradise believes in fair trade, cultural exchange and a more equitable world, which it […]
Manisha Kumari Nath is from Kuntibandali, a small town in the Achham region of western Nepal. She lives with her father, mother and two little sisters in the house. As like most rural areas of Nepal, her family is very humble, her mother sells vegetables and thus can pay for the education of her daughters. […]
We are in Nepal, on the ground, weaving a network of women who sew and distribute masks 😷 so that when the biggest part of the pandemic arrives, probably in late autumn, the area will be more prepared with this contribution. At the moment there are few cases, but the country does not have hospitals […]
The Rato Baltin Project is on site since the beginning of 2017, working to eradicate the Nepalese cultural practice establishing that during the menstruation, girls and women are considered impure, and are deprived of their basic needs. This practice is penalized since 2018, but they will never denounce, because that would be denouncing their mother, their father, their mother-in-law… […]
05/02/2020 Les dones nepaleses expliquen amb imatges com viuen la menstruació, aïllades perquè són impures. L’exposició “La menstruació al Nepal: un turment cultural” es pot veure a la biblioteca del districte 2 (Bd2) fins al 28 de febrer. És un dels actes de la programació del Mes de la Pau, organitzada per la Regidoria de […]
Fent front al projecte del canviat 2020 La Covid-19 ha representat una variable molt rellevant arreu, també a Nepal i als projectes de cooperació que s’hi desenvolupen. El projecte Rato Baltin de l’ONG catalana be artsy segueix desenvolupant-se a Achham, la zona remota de Nepal on la tradició hindú del chhaupadi que discrimina a nenes i dones […]
We have sent the proceedings from the Teaming Group, where the people that help us contribute with €1 per month to the Rato Baltin Project of be artsy. With this contributions, we add resources to the project and help it grow and consolidate. Rohini Bhandary and Hiukala Chalaune, our trainers from Turmakhand and Mangalsen, have […]
During 2019, one of the local organizations with which we work in Nepal, CODEC, asked us to do a pilot test in Nuwakot, which is the area where this NGO works. This was to undertake a pilot project of our Rato Baltin program in that area. Our representative in Nepal, Clara García i Ortés, went there in […]