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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
2020 has been like a parenthesis, but work hasn’t stopped! If we look back to the last twenty years, Nepal has ratified the Beijing Platform for Action, and the Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. The Nepalese women literacy rate has passed from the 25% in 1991 to the 57% […]
The 20th World Virtual Toilet Summit (WTS) has invited be artsy to participate. This was done by Clara Garcia i Ortés, founder and director of the Rato Baltin project, on 19 November. Project ECHO and the World Toilet Organization organized the Summit with the aim to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on […]
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 […]
The menstrual cups have arrived to give us a great lesson in sustainability in comparison with traditional products used during menstruation, which many times end up in some dumpsite or in the sea. For that reason, Ruby Cup was born with the mission of providing sustainable menstrual care, thanks to its cups made of medical […]