BTTA - Project Juneli - Women Empowerment in Nepal

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https://junelinepal.wordpress.com/ Juneli Nepal is another long term project of Bring Thoughts to Action, facilitated mainly by Judith, a gynecologist from Germany alongside other Nepalese and foreign volunteers. This program is working on empowering the role of Nepalese girls and women to fight against gender-based issues in their society, from the sexual reproductive perspective. Their approach is by teaching women about health, hygiene, the female body, menstruation and women’s rights - so to improve the perception about their own body and give up on outdated ideas of cultural habits. Under this project, the girl-children and women are also taught on how to sew reusable menstruation pads.

Couple of days ago, we followed Judith, Anjala and Ashim to Ramche, Sindhulpalchok to assists them with the workshop and to film the workshop for the series of videos we are making for BTTA. We went on a local bus, which was really entertaining and the journey from Kathmandu to the hillside village, which was supposed to take only 2 hours at the most, took up nearly 4 hours as the bus keep stopping like every 15 minutes or so to drop/pick-up passengers.

Sindhulpalchok was hit pretty badly during the last earthquake - it is one of the epicentre of the quake, so we saw a lot of collapsed houses and destruction along the way too, which is very heartbreaking. but it is amazing to at the same time, witness the strong spirit of the Nepalese people.

BTTA - PROJECT JUNELI from ozairrao on Vimeo.