Art for Social Change
We have updated our Transparency page on our website to share the results with donors, associates, and partners. As you know, our project fights against chhaupadi and promotes reproductive health, menstrual hygiene, and education in areas of Nepal where extreme taboos affecting girls and women persist. According to the evaluation, the project achieved significant results […]
We are very happy to share the last news on our organization! Thanks to the contributions of our members, of donors… the girls were able to finish successfully, during these first two months of the 2023, their Rato Baltin training, by now in two different schools within the municipality of Turmakhand. In case you don’t […]
We work against the extreme discrimination suffered by many girls and women in Nepal. We can talk about extreme violence, too. We also educate their communities, also boys and men. Our projects – with Rato Baltin, as the principal – has its continuity in danger. We need you to continue. We have educated, protected and […]
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. […]
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 […]
The experience related to the collaborative workshops developed with MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has been rewarding for each of us. Through the Riipen platform, we unite around our academic and practical interests in defending the rights of children and women in Nepal. Nursing students from the Community Mental Health: High Priority Population class […]
According to UNICEF, Nepal has got the third-highest ratio of child marriage in Asia Although child marriage is illegal in this country since 1963, this practice is very common in remote villages. The minimum legal age to be married is 20, but in these remote areas there is still a majority of teenagers getting married […]
It will be of interest to you. And it will be surprising. We have started working on the project Rato Baltin 2021 and other projects this year, and finally we closed the activity report that we carried out in 2020, the year in which the main risk was the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide and in Far […]
The challenges we faced while implementing the project in 2020 were due to the Covid-19, but despite the constraints, our local trainers have shown their motivation and willingness to keep working to bring changes in their community. You can read the details of the evaluation of the 2020 Rato Baltin Project, the focus, the results, […]
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 […]