This week, three other volunteers left the WFN office. Katharina & Robert from Germany and Carmen from Switzerland worked for WFN for the last two months. Together they updated our websites for both, WFN and Maheela Cooperative. They did a great work in writing, developing and designing our new face to the world outside. We are very thankful that they brought in their experience.

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Today WFN proudly released the new websites for The Women’s Foundation Nepal and for Maheela Cooperative. WFN’s volunteers Carmen Lautenschlager, Katharina and Robert Sternberg worked intensively on this project the last weeks. New texts, new photographs and a complete new design catapult WFN’s websites in to the new century.

Please explore our new Websites – WFN is looking forward to your feedback!

Today WFN said goodbye to Suzanne from Canada and Felix from Germany.

Suzanne is part of the WFN family since many years and returns every year to work with us for six months. WFN is so thankful for her great ongoing support and happy, to see her again in autumn.

Felix is working for Changemaker, WFNs business partner in Switzerland. Felix visited WFN for business reasons and stayed with WFN for three weeks. Last year, he was our volunteer for five months. We are thankful for his knowledge about design and production techniques he shares with WFN. 

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Today, a seven-day training in Bhaktapur, reached its highlight. 45 women, all of them farmers in rural areas, learned in the past days about efficient organic farming.

This training is part of the Vocational Training for Nepalese Rural Women Program funded by Marie-Schlei-Verein Germany. The training is about how to grow all kinds of vegetables in harmony with nature. The women learned about professional farming and how to make more profit from their farm. 

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On the 7th of May, a special art exhibition was launched at Claudia Stöckle’s physiotherapy practice in Göppingen (Germany). She and her team presented acrylic paintings and photograhps under the title “healing – art – movement”.

Part of the revenue and the collected donations will go to The Women’s Foundation Nepal (WFN) and the children’s oncology department at the Olga Hospital in Stuttgart.

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With the generous support of GLS Treuhand, Germany, and Dr. Karl Brasse, ophthalmologist, the WFN was able to provide eye checkups and treatments for 2957 people at the Eye Camp held at our WFN’s compound, from March 1st through March 7th 2014. Among them, 53 women and 39 men (92 persons in total) needed an eye operation and they all had their surgery within the next few days. They received eye surgery from March 1st to March 14th. We also provided them with free transportation, black glasses and medication.  

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WFN is continuously working to find ways to empower women so they can take their true place in society.

In Nepal, many women never went to school, therefore can barely read and write and others do have a high school diploma but never received a practical training of any kind. Consequently they only can find low paying jobs like cleaning, doing house chores for another, knitting, in short work that requires no specific skills. Their long hours doesn’t even generate respect nor a decent salary and as a result women have no self esteem.

After many meeting and discussions on this issue, a pilot project was born.

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The Women’s Foundation Nepal has been awarded for the Best Entrepreneur of the year 2013. The award has been given on recognition for providing employment to women through Small Cottage Industry. Currently, WFN has been providing employment for more than 100 women.