Art for Social Change
Despite years of work, Rato Baltin remains essential. In 2025, at least three new deaths have been reported as a result of chhaupadi, the practice that forces women and girls to isolate themselves during menstruation or childbirth. On 29 August 2025, Nim Khanal (28) and Kabita Bhandari (7) died in the village of Serapani, Panchadewal […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]