Art for Social Change
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
Testimonial write by Simran Adhikari, intern and volunteer during 2019, program officer in be artsy’ Nepal headquarter since then, and founder of Be Artsy Nepal: As a fresh graduate, I was searching for opportunities to showcase my skills and abilities by volunteering and working for social change. I got a chance to know Clara G.O. […]
We are really happy to finally show you the impact evaluation from 2019 year. This year we are a little late, because analysing the result from 4 teams has been giving us 4 times the work from last year. But we hope you are going to be as happy as we are with the results. […]
Here is the link to listen the interview to Clara G.O at Radio Santvi.
Sponsoring girls, to facilitate scholarship and avoid early marriage in some areas in Nepal, is a new project of be artsy. The United Nations has called for meetings of governments, women rights activists, and other agents, between May and July this year. Agents who promote a global campaign – Generation Equality, centring in Mexico City […]
We were in Kathmandu, nearly ready to start our journey to Achham. This time the team that travelled from Kathmandu was composed by Rupa: Project Manager; Simran: student of International Cooperation in training; Sharmila: community health, although she came as translator; Rita: journalist, who joined the project to take pictures in person of what is happening there […]