27
Dec
Category: testimonials
21
Nov
The Cost of Menstruation: Girls Are Still Dying Because of Chhaupadi in Nepal
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 […]
20
Jan
Artistes molt reconeguts ‘visiten’ la vila de Ripoll (Girona), a benefici de be artsy, en un exposició. També online
Una exposició d’art a Ripoll – també es pot fer la tramitació d’una adquisició online, i enviament per UPS) – dóna suport als projectes de be artsy. Algunes dels lectors d’aquest article ja coneixeu l’entitat. Veieu al final de l’article: dades bàsiques de l’exposició. Un cop acabada l’exposició, es podran adquirir online amb enviament segur […]
29
Jun
News about our staff: Kamala Bhandari, mentor and new Achham Team Manager
We spoke with Kamala, one of the first girls to attend our workshops in Mangalsen. Namaste, Kamala. After some time in which, for organizational reasons, we did not update our website with new reports and news, we love to resume the news section with this interview. Kamala is a mentor, and the new Achham Team Manager. […]
27
May
For a real and sustainable menstrual health – Stop Menstrual Poverty – Stop plastic – MHM2021
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 […]
31
Dec
Rokpa: a Tibetan word meaning ‘help’ and ‘friend’
There are areas with difficult accessibility that only organizations like ROKPA have been able to reach. Since its founding in 1980, Rokpa (A Tibetan word meaning ‘help’ and ‘friend’) is present today in Nepal, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Rokpa was also established in the Tibetan areas of China from 1990 to 2016 and provided education, […]
10
Nov
Meet Dambara Budha
Dambara Budha has been collaborating in the Rato Baltin project as a trainer for over two years. She was born in the Dhungachalna village, a very remote area far from the urban centre of Dhakari, in the Achham district, with a terrible telephone signal, located in the western part of Nepal. Before participating in the […]
23
Sep
Meet Hiunkala
In a town called Toshi, located in the Sudurpaschim province of Nepal (far-west) we meet Hiunkala Chalaune. Hiunkala lives with her father, mother, brother and sister and has been working as a trainer in the Rato Baltin project for more than a year. Before participating in the project, Hiunkala felt that she used to wish […]
15
Jun
Meet Manisha
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. […]
16
Apr
Get to know Tejana
In Tejana´s village there is no electricity nor transport means. Despite all that, she manages to get the menstrual cups and educational workshops reaching there through Basti’s muddy roads. A small village in Achham to which you take more than two days to arrive from the province main city. She is happy for that. She coordinates the trainers’ […]