by Laxmi Aryal | Oct 31, 2021 | Updates, Blog, News, Newsletter, Success Stories
Family Background It is my great pleasure to introduce a girl named Sirjana from a Tamang (Waiba) family from a remote village of Kavre Palanchok, where people still think that educating girls is unnecessary. Girls’ role is limited to working in farming, household,...
by Laxmi Aryal | Sep 29, 2021 | Updates, Blog, News, Newsletter, Success Stories
It takes a village The famous proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” still holds in villages of a developing country like Nepal. Most families here work their land for a living which is generally not enough to sustain the family. Hence, men often...
by Laxmi Aryal | Aug 31, 2021 | Didi Program, Awareness, General, Blog, Newsletter
Special Didi Program Girl trafficking is a very severe problem in Nepal. Poverty, illiteracy, and lack of employment opportunities in the country enable the traffickers to exploit young girls. Here are just a few examples and statistics from the United Nations’...
by Laxmi Aryal | Aug 29, 2021 | Updates, Blog, News, Newsletter, Success Stories
Tsultrim’s childhood Tsultrim, or Pema as she was known as a child, begins her story in the rolling hills of Nurbi, a village located on the lap of the northern Himalayan range in the Gorkha district of Nepal. Mount Manaslu is the highest peak in that range,...
by Laxmi Aryal | Jul 31, 2021 | Blog, News, Newsletter, Success Stories, Updates
A hunger for education Sita Tamang is a girl for whom education is indispensable for living. The desire to attend school and excel in studies seems like a common aspiration for a young girl, yet this seemingly common goal is quite a challenge for many girls like Sita...
