Breaking barriers: Agency through financial literacy for married Dalit girls Despite Nepal’s legal age of marriage being set at 20, early marriages continue to persist within marginalised communities, especially among women from low-income families. Various factors, including challenging socio-economic conditions, illiteracy, limited employment opportunities, gender discrimination, and poverty, contribute to this issue. Street Child of… Continue reading Breaking the Bonds Phase II
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Embracing Green Schools: Educating for a Sustainable Future
In the face of an ever-accelerating crisis, the phenomenon of global climate change has emerged as a formidable force, reshaping the very fabric of our planet. From the vanishing glaciers to the intensifying storms, the pervasive influence of this environmental metamorphosis extends beyond geographical boundaries, ushering in a new era of uncertainty and profound consequences… Continue reading Embracing Green Schools: Educating for a Sustainable Future
Response during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rapid Response Programme (RRP) is one of the gender responsive programme to COVID-19 of Street Child of Nepal with its consortium partners Janaki Women Awareness Society (JWAS), Aasaman Nepal (ASN) and Group of Helping Hands (SAHAS) Nepal targeting women and girls. The program included food distribution and hygiene and menstrual kits. 4000 households (HHs) were… Continue reading Response during the COVID-19 pandemic
Arati’s Story: After receiving vocational skills training and financial literacy Arati sets up her own enterprise
Arati Devi Sada is a participant of the Breaking the Bonds programme who is now running a small egg-selling business. She lives with her husband on the outskirts of a tiny village in Siraha. Prior to joining the programme, Arati had never been to school before she attained basic literacy and numeracy skills through the… Continue reading Arati’s Story: After receiving vocational skills training and financial literacy Arati sets up her own enterprise
Life Skills Lessons during the pandemic
Early April this year, signs of the second wave of COVID-19 were evident in Nepal. The confirmed positive cases spiked at an alarming rate leading to the Government imposing lockdowns across the Kathmandu Valley and many other hotspot districts to slow the spread of the virus. With the restrictions in movement and the severity of… Continue reading Life Skills Lessons during the pandemic