17
Mar
Tag: Menstruation
30
Jan
United Nations puts the 2020 focus in the sexual and reproductive rights
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 […]
29
Jan
Travel log: 2076/2019 follow-up trip, adapting and planning for the future
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 […]
11
Dec
Don’t miss the exhibitions about Rato Baltin!
Lately we have been talking about the exhibition in networks, we want to introduce you. The idea of mixing the photos that girls have been taking during the Rato Baltin project with photographs of creative women from here was by Magda Gavaldà. The exhibition, actually 2 different exhibitions and one installation, are mixed with […]
02
Nov
What would it feel like to be a girl growing up in Achham, Nepal?
21
Aug
Exploring myself (Nepali Volunteer Testimonial)
Testimonial write in Nepali by Rupa Pandey, after the Nepali one you can read the English translation. Just like every other day, on January the 11th, 2019, I was checking my Facebook and suddenly a post drew my attention: that post was about the Rato Baltin Project, about the menstrual tradition “Chhaupadi”, which is still […]
13
Aug
Putting the seed of the counterpower (Volunteer Testimonial)
One day, in the Facebook of the university where I am studying a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, I read a note where it said that they were looking for anthropologist volunteers for a project in Nepal. This name, Nepal, caught my attention; a country that I really like, that I have visited seven times […]
03
Jun
Testimonial for MHDay –Menstrual Hygiene Day– Walk
My name is Shruti, I live in Columbia, Missouri, United States. At my school we did not have free feminine products for school. So I worked with some administrators to provide free products district wide at the high schools in the bathrooms. It is a completely student-run initiative. Afterwards, while researching how others are impacted […]
08
May
Achham: Training for the trainers and mentors for the 2019 workshops
We finally made our first trip to Achham. This year the team is huge. We are in Sanphebagar and we have 10 days of training for the trainers and mentors who will be providing workshops in schools in Achham this year. Our great 2019 team: · 5 foreign volunteers: Maisie, Anne, Claudia (nurse) Eleonora (anthropology student), and […]
03
Mar