Art for Social Change
In the Rato Baltin project, we keep working hard. This year, we’ve been tight on resources, but we’ve been able to follow up with the girls who received menstrual cups last year, with great results. We are now in our sixth municipality, Binayak, in Achham, one of the most populated areas! Ruby Cup has donated […]
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. […]
Contributions make a difference. The philanthropic organization Rotary Club Barcelona Millennium has given us resources – € 600 – to support our main project, Rato Baltin, and fight against Chhaupadi, a practice banned since some years by the government of Nepal. But it still persists in the country, especially in rural and remote areas such […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]