Art for Social Change
This would not be possible without you, that is why we want to thank each a every one of the people who made our work possible in Nepal during the 2017. To continue empowering the girls and women in the remote areas of West Nepal, the raising of awareness and educating in menstrual and sexual […]
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. […]
One significant problem that we have seen in our travels throughout West Nepal is the extent of childhood malnourishment. Sometimes this can be associated with very young mothers with little nutritional information support, but in other cases cannot. Though there are some nutritional programs that run throughout West Nepal, it can be difficult for mothers […]
10-6-17. Moving 4 personal rucksacks, 2 suitcases full of materials, 1 bag of cameras and 23 metallic buckets from one village to another in these remote areas can be really complicated! From Rachuli to Cnilkhaya, according to Googlemaps, there are just 9 km. and a slope of 400 m. First we had to get somebody […]
We publish the translation, in our web, of the following article – by Aditi Lamichhane, published 2017-07-05 at The Kathmandu Post– because we consider it is important for our Catalan and Spanish-speaking readers. — be artsy team. Image: The Kathmandu Post At the age of 13, menstrual cycle, for me, was about a beautiful transition into womanhood. […]
Today is the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. As such, we feel it is an important time to highlight the extent of this practice in Nepal. After all, it is easy to think that you will never be personally impacted by human trafficking, or know anyone who has been effected. But when be artsy […]