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  • be artsy 2022: more than €18,000 in collaborative financing and support for Oxygen for Nepal to fight against Covid

    be artsy 2022: more than €18,000 in collaborative financing and support for Oxygen for Nepal to fight against Covid

    The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic plunged Nepal into a deadly health crisis. Existent health infrastructures were insufficient to cater to the increasing number of infections, and many patients were turned down from hospital treatment. Demands for essential medical
    equipment and infrastructures such as oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, ventilators along with safety gear could not be met due to their lack of availability. This supply-demand gap created a massive health catastrophe and led to many avoidable deaths.

    After the fact that in 2020 the main project of be artsy, Rato Baltin (Red Bucket), had to be left in a kind of stand-by (although our local mentors did continue working, and we kept in touch with the people and associates in Nepal and in the area of Achham) because of the start of the pandemics, in 2021, in February, we started with renewed energies. For example, we started the Happy Women Training Centre for widows and disadvantaged women, in agreement with the village of Mangalsen. We supplied cloth to sew face masks, we also purchased and distributed them. But the second wave of the Covid-19 did strike the country quite strongly.

    It was at that moment when the collaborative financing Oxygen for Nepal came to be, the one we are introducing to you in this report

    Thanks to individual donors, and the economic and supportive contributions of the NGOs “Amics del Nepal”, “Petit Món”, “Camina Nepal” and some more, we made €18,000
    for this task, which we detail in the report. After this impasse, and the financial contribution applied as per the objectives of this specific project, our projects Rato Baltin, Edufem, Happy Women (the Achham women made more than 10,000 masks, more than 200 reusable sanitary
    pads and 1,900 bags for menstrual cups), the Mask Up Campaign in Kathmandu donating natural cotton masks to elderly people homes and orphanages in collaboration with Nature Craft, the donation of Ruby Cup menstrual cups to female nurses and doctors that were working against the pandemic, all have continued.

    Our evaluation of the whole set of projects of be artsy 2021 has come up with 11,812 (direct) beneficiaries. But let’s see in detail what has the Oxygen for Nepal project meant.

    Translation by Tere Salinero. Photos by Creasion Nepal & beartsy

    We need your help, please

    -Associate: – https://beartsy.org/associate / 

    -Donate: – https://beartsy.org/donate/

    -Teaming – 1 euro/month:

    RatoBaltin: https://www.teaming.net/ratobaltinproject
    Edufem to prevent early marriage: https://www.teaming.net/edufemproject

    -Donorbox – Choose your own currency!

    RatoBaltin: https://donorbox.org/against-chhaupadi

    Edufem to prevent early marriage: https://donorbox.org/edufem

    Thanks!

  • The fight against the Covid-19, with our project Masks for Health, supported by Minyons Escoltes i Guies

    The fight against the Covid-19, with our project Masks for Health, supported by Minyons Escoltes i Guies

    For this year 2021, Minyons Escoltes i Guies de Catalunya, a youth educational organization in Catalonia, Spain, have decided to contribute the 1% of their own fundraising corresponding to the 2019/2020 course (€4,973.40) to two projects, both born to fight the impact of the Covid-19 pandemics. The entity issued a call for public tender in order to allocate the money to global justice projects created by associations and entities from outside their own organization.

    Within the frame of this call, the jury has decided to divide that 1% between two projects, one of which is from be artsy. Thanks a lot, Minyons Escoltes i Guies de Catalunya! We have already spoken about this project to you: “Masks for Health 2021”. It is about doing reusable masks workshops in the Achham district, in West Nepal, where we mainly work, creating paid jobs for local women to facilitate their autonomy. It has also included giving out soap, and providing information plus raising awareness, helping thus the people in 17 villages to be more protected against the Covid-19.

    The amount received has been €1,440, at it has been a great help! We congratulate from be artsy the other project, “Senders” (“Trails”), from the Tapís Association in the city of Vic, Catalonia: assistance with social and employment integration, with incentives, addressed to young people at risk of social exclusion, now aggravated due to the health emergency.

    These types of collaborations do really make a difference! Thanks very much!

    Translation by Tere Salinero

    We need your help, please.

    -Associate: – https://beartsy.org/associate / 

    –2021 crowdfunding: https://www.migranodearena.org/en/cause/fighting-chhaupadi-the-taboo-that-is-leading-to-the-deaths-of-young-girls-

    -Teaming – 1 euro/month:

    RatoBaltin: https://www.teaming.net/ratobaltinproject
    Edufem to prevent early marriage: https://www.teaming.net/edufemproject

    -Donorbox – Choose your own currency!

    RatoBaltin: https://donorbox.org/againts-chhaupadi

    Edufem to prevent early marriage: https://donorbox.org/edufem

    Thanks!

  • What have we done in Accham to protect, and protect ourselves, against Covid-19?

    What have we done in Accham to protect, and protect ourselves, against Covid-19?

    In response to the consequences of the spread of the SARS-COV-2 infection, in early 2020, we initiated projects to distribute reusable masks, soap and information, and food for vulnerable women. We explain how it went.

    The first case of Covid-19 took place in the Chinese province of Hubei, in December 2019. In Nepal, the first reported case was on January 23, 2020, by a Nepalese man who was returning from Wuhan. The patient recovered satisfactorily and his contacts came out asymptomatic. Nepal’s risk from the Covid-19 outbreak is high, according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention of the United States, due to the borders with China and India with low health security and high entry rate. The government deployed its limited means. The situation meant that, by working on the field with the Rato Baltin project, we helped in the fight against Covid-19. Concerned for the remote villages of Accham, where the Rato Baltin project has been taking place in recent years, and especially by local staff and project beneficiaries, with whom we regularly share close contact with, tools were needed in order to prevent the spread of the virus. Masks for Health has promoted the realization of reusable masks, the creation of jobs for local women, and the distribution of soap to guarantee a high level of hygiene, and raise awareness about the virus and how to manage it.

    Based on the work of the Achham community

    We have done this together with local health volunteers like JCI – Achham and representatives of the local governments. Also, the representatives of the municipalities of Janalibandali, Basti and Kalagaun had asked for our help in relation to the provision of food for people that were in a more vulnerable situation. We decided to focus on households with widows and children who had no access to a place to eat and no economic resources for closure and confinement measurements: the Food for Need project was done in parallel and related to prevention activities. With the local organization JCI- Achham, our local staff and the support of local policy representatives, we have been able to carry out these actions and collected the qualitative and quantitative impact. 800 people- mainly widows with children- have benefited from the food distributed like rice, lentils, oil, salt, and sugar.

    Due to the exceptional crisis situation that we are living in due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, it has not been possible to implement the Rato Baltin project as we had expected. But we have been able to bring our help to the most remote villages of the Achham district through the Mask for Health and Food for Need projects. As an organization, we think that by developing these projects we have shown the ability to act quickly in times of health and economic crisis, use the resources – human, logistical, material- generated from the trust built and deposited over these last few years from the work of the Achham community in promoting the rights of women and girls.

    Thank you to everyone who has contributed through Migranodearena and everyone who supports us. All you have worked on that too!

    You can read our report, in this link.

    Translation by Estefania Fernandez

    We need your help, please.

    -Associate: – https://beartsy.org/associate / 

    –Migranodearena: https://www.migranodearena.org/en/cause/fighting-chhaupadi-the-taboo-that-is-leading-to-the-deaths-of-young-girls-

    -Teaming (1 euro/month):

    RatoBaltin: https://www.teaming.net/ratobaltinproject
    Edufem to prevent early marriage: https://www.teaming.net/edufemproject

    -Donorbox:
    https://donorbox.org/againts-chhaupadi
    https://donorbox.org/edufem

    Thanks!

  • The widows of Achham, the women most in need of food aid in Nepal in situation of covid-19

    The widows of Achham, the women most in need of food aid in Nepal in situation of covid-19

    We are conducting a food distribution project. We started in Basti: during the execution of the Mask4Health project we learned that there is a higher need for women: in the maintenance of the house run by widowed women with children, they haven’t anything to eat. We work with an Achham NGO and our coordinators Manisha and Tejana were helping with the execution of the project; and our partner Be Artsy Nepal organized everything from Kathmandu.

    Basti is the first village that we worked in 2017, and we have been there several times. Tejana, our Coordinator, is from this municipality. It is not possible to arrive to Basti by jeep. Jeeps usually can get to a halfway point named PichiBanda, and from there it is another 2 hours walk to Basti (minimum). The jeep from the municipality could not reach the meeting point because of the muddy road. We have already had this problem several times while going to Basti. Our partners from Achham and the municipality had to bring all the food by tractor to PichiBanda.

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    In Basti, the Mask4Health project is still not finished (we still don’t have all the money needed) and women have not their reusable masks, so we provided every one with a surgical one, and we asked everybody to keep 6 feet distance and hand washing. You can read this small great project – Food4Needed – with its cost here, and become part of it.

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    In PichiBanda, the widowed women were waiting and the team gave the food relief to them, for 100 households. We keep on working for two more villages.

    By Clara Garcia i Ortés, photos by Manisha Nath, Tejana Khanal and JCI Achham for be artsy.

    We need your help, please. Make your donation to the Covid-19 project today.

    Machtfunding: #Covid19🦠 https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/-mask4health-luchemos-contra-la-covid19-en-nepal-con-mascarillas-reusables-jabon-informacion
    Crowdfunding: http://bit.ly/RatoBaltin2020

    Teaming (1 euro/month)
    RatoBaltin: https://www.teaming.net/ratobaltinproject
    Edufem to prevent early marriage: https://www.teaming.net/edufemproject

    Associate: – https://beartsy.org/associate

    Donorbox:
    –https://donorbox.org/againts-chhaupadi
    –https://donorbox.org/edufem
    Covid19🦠 https://donorbox.org/mask-4-health-nepal

    Thank you! 😊

  • Thanks so much Himalayan Paradise!

    Thanks so much Himalayan Paradise!

    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 recreates not only in its Barcelona store, but also in their actions, which, for example, have allowed us to provide food to nearly 250 people!

    Thank you very much, Himalayan Paradise, for your continuous collaboration!

    Thanks for joining us year after year!

    By Luisa Tejada

    There are several ways in which you can get involved with our projects and help girls in Achham:

    Teaming Group: 1 euro a month – become part of Rato Baltin Project!

    Teaming Group: 1 euro a month – become part of the team and get your friends to help you sponsor her and avoid early marriage!!

     

    Regular donation: to https://donorbox.org/againts-chhaupadi

    Become a member: https://beartsy.org/associate/

    🙂 Thanks

  • Emergency in Achham, Nepal. Masks 4 Health and food against Covid-19

    Emergency in Achham, Nepal. Masks 4 Health and food against Covid-19

    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 or how to deal with it, so precaution will be the best solution.  We also will work in passing on comprehensible messages about the precautions, physical distancing, hands hygiene, and clear information about the real dangers.

    And we can, with your donation, help to provide food for hundreds of returnees from India, now in quarantine centres (schools). There is a food emergency (read Food for returnees Project) where the municipalities have not enough resources. You can read here our Mask 4 Health Project.

    With only 3 euros you can help us to respond to the problem of covid19🦠 in west Nepal.

    Please donate now: You can give in your own currency from this convenient web: https://donorbox.org/mask-4-health-nepal

    Thank you 🙏🏽

    Text by Clara Garcia i Ortés, photos by Rohina Bandhari.

    There are several ways in which you can get involved with our projects and help girls in Achham:

    Teaming Group: 1 euro a month – become part of Rato Baltin Project!

    Teaming Group: 1 euro a month – become part of the team and get your friends to help you sponsor her and avoid early marriage!!

    Regular donation: to https://donorbox.org/againts-chhaupadi

    Become a member: https://beartsy.org/associate/

    🙂 Thanks!