Book Releasing, Sticker & Handbag Distribution and Paper Presentation on Changing Legal Provision for Women and Children: 2018

Posted: August 26, 2018 at 3:08 pm | Categories: Blog

News: On 24th August 2018, the women’s Foundation Nepal had the immense pleasure of releasing a booklet named “Kanuni Sandesh Pustika (Legal Information Booklet)” and distributing Stickers and hand bags following the amended laws that helped push through for the rights of women and children in Nepal. 

The standout changes are that for the first time ever, children can now get citizenship through their mothers too. This is life changing for many individuals whose fathers were absent and hence, could not receive a citizenship. Also, there are now equal inheritance rights for women and men, and stronger punishment for domestic violence, witch hunting and human trafficking. 

The program was focused on information dissemination and sharing with the Local Representatives and specially focused on Deputy Mayors who have the rights to implement and amend the legal provision justly for the women and children in their concerned metropolitan cities, municipalities and rural municipalities. The chief guest of the program was Ms. Sashikala Dahal, Vice-chair of the National Assembly and followed by the special guests Mr. Rameshwor Phuyal, Provincial Assembly member and Mr.Chiring Dorze, Provincial Assembly member. The program has many guests as deputy Mayors from Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur districts along with Human Right Activists, Women and Children Activists and Media Personalities.

Also, two papers were presented during the program by Prof. Dr. Sashi Adhikari on “New Family Legal Provision including Marriage, Divorce, Property Rights and more” and Advocate Mr. Saroj Nepal on “Domestic Violence Law”.

The book release, as well as the law changes it celebrates, mark an important time in the history of Nepal, where misogynistic laws are broken down. Women’s voices are heard and empowered in society, and the great reception of our event makes us proud to fight for women’s rights in Nepal. Still there are many legal provisions that should be amended and the local representatives makes commitment to work for the implementation of just rights for women and children during the program. Also, they promised to discuss the issue in their assembly meeting for the amendment of the new legal provisions that is needed to be amended. We hope the hurdles would be eliminated in the future.

We would like to thank ADHARA Foundation Family, different organizations and all the participants from different nook of the country for making a program successful.

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Outstanding 10th Grade SEE Graduation – Congratulations to all!

Posted: August 9, 2018 at 10:59 am | Categories: Blog

 
The school Bipul Shikshya Niketan organised a farewell program for the SEE (secondary education examination) graduation, and we are delighted that our children living in the shelter home have graduated with flying colors. Their hard work shows in their grades, and we are sure that their further studies will be successful.
 
The students have left the school and enrolled in a college for grade 11. IMG_0236
The WFN wishes them all the best for IMG_0045 their future, and congratulations to all the graduates!
 
Geeta, Riju, Samjhana, Swostika, Prazu, Prakriti and Dilara; You have made us proud!
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Celebrating the Festival of Color at Shelter Home

Posted: March 2, 2018 at 12:46 pm | Categories: Blog

Holi (also known as Phagwah or Bhojpuri) is celebrated on the Phalgun Purnima (or Pooranmashi, Full Moon) in the month of Phalgun according to the Hindu Calendar.It lasts for a night and a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (Full Moon day). The first evening is known as Holika Dahan or Chhoti Holi and the following day as Holi, Rangwali Holi, Dhuleti, Dhulandi, or Phagwah.The word Holi is derived from the word ‘Holika’, who was the demonic sister of King Hiranyakashipu and was burned to death with the help of Vishnu. Since then, Holi is commemorated as the festival of love. Holi marks the passing of winter and beginning of spring and is celebrated each year around the vernal equinox, the first day of the new season on the astronomical calendar. Generally, it falls between February and March. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships.
Holi frolic and celebrations begin the morning after the Holika bonfire. There is no tradition of holding puja (prayer), and the day is for partying and pure enjoyment. Children and young people form groups armed with dry colours, coloured solution and water guns (pichkaris), water balloons filled with coloured water, and other creative means to colour their targets. Everyone in open areas such as streets and parks is game, but inside homes or at doorways only dry powder is used to smear each other’s face. People throw colours and get their targets completely coloured up. It is like a water fight, but with coloured water. People take delight in spraying coloured water on each other. By late morning, everyone looks like a canvas of colours. This is why Holi is given the name “Festival of Colours”. It’s that time of the year when the streets are filled with colour-smeared people who greet each other with a dash of pink, yellow and green. Yes! It’s the festival of colours .Here is the celebration pictures of Holi at the Women’s Foundation. May God paint the canvas of your life with the colours of joy, love, happiness, prosperity, good health and success. Wishing you a happy Holi!

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Blanket Distribution Programme of The Women’s Foundation, Helping the poor for survival – 2018

Posted: February 5, 2018 at 4:42 pm | Categories: Blog

In winter people shiver with cold.For those who cannot afford warm clothes or a blanket, they are fighting with the cold. People usually say that thousand of people die of cold, but we say that they die due to lack of warm clothes and blankets. Poor and helpless people sleep in rags at footpath and roadside and die of cold. These poor people sleep close to each other during cold waves but how one can sleep sound without blanket in such conditions. They shiver due to cold breeze all the night and some old age persons die of these waves. There are many under-privileged who cannot afford even a blanket and die – without a roof or cloth on their bare bodies – to add one more to the count of deaths in Terai region of Nepal due to cold wave every year. For getting relief from cold, The Women’s Foundation of Nepal distributed the blankets to over thousands of deprived, poor helpless families in the Mohottari (Province 2), Jhapa and Sunsari (Province 1), and,Sindhupalchowk (Province 3). Our team distributed the blanket to those needy people so that they can protect themselves from the cold in winters. To make this program successful, many people played their vital role directly and indirectly. We convey our gratitude to Provincial Assembly Member Ms. Sahshi Kala Dahal, APF SP Kumar Neupane, Inspector Aambika Karki, Shree Bibekananda, Head of Ward Bishnu Lal Chaudhary, Mayor Shree Dhurba Kumar Siwakoti and Assistant Mayor Pabitra Mahara ( Prasahi ) , Head of Ward Nagendra Sangraula and Ward member Tara Bhattarai, Provincial Assembly Member Rajendra Lingden, Head of Ward no. 1 Melamchi, Krishna Prshad Chaulagain, WFN branch office and its members; and all other people who are involved in this social cause. Leave a comment

Saraswoti Puja Celebration at School and Kindergarten

Posted: January 22, 2018 at 3:01 pm | Categories: Blog

Basant Panchami, is a hindu spring festival.It is observed on the fifth day of the Indian traditional calendar month of Magha, which typically falls in the Gregorian months of January or February.

The festival is celebrated in various ways depending on the region. Many revere goddess Saraswoti, the Hindu deity of learning, arts and music. It is celebrated with visits to her temples, by playing music, as well as the day children, initiate  writing letters of alphabet or study.For many Hindus, Vasant Panchami is the festival dedicated to goddess Saraswoti who is their ancient goddess of knowledge, language, music and all arts. She is the wife of Brahma and she symbolizes creative energy and power in all its form, including longing and love. The season and festival also reflects the agricultural fields which are ripening with yellow flowers of mustard crop, which Hindus associate with Saraswati’s favorite color

May your life shine and dazzle with lively colors of vasant. May Goddess Saraswoti bless you with wisdom and knowledge.  Celebration of joy, happiness and through poetry, dance, music and puja. #celebration #saraswotiPuja

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Celebration of Human Rights Day 2017 Equal Opportunities for Youths and Women: A Base for Prosperity and Development

Posted: December 10, 2017 at 3:48 pm | Categories: Blog

December 10, 2017 – On the occasion of the 69th International Human Rights Day, the civil and social-cause organizations in Nepal celebrated with the theme “equal opportunities for youths and women: a base for prosperity and development.” The main goals of the program were to promote and raise awareness on the theme of human rights and freedoms.

Since 1948, the declaration and implementation of the UDHR has been changing the lives of people around the world who have been living in the shadow of inhumane policies and practices. On this day, each year many civil and social-cause organizations, including The Women’s Foundation, celebrate this political festival with rallies, workshops, seminars and awareness programs specially focused on the rights of women and children in Nepal. This year, thousands of people participated with enthusiasm in Human Rights Day programing.

The event evaluated the current status of the country’s fulfillment of human rights and discussed how to strengthen quality of life with a newly elected federal political system. Though the constitution has guaranteed the rights of people from all walks of life, rules are yet to be formulated in regard to the implementation of youth and women rights. From the political, social, and economic perspectives, we carefully considered how to bring women’s rights into practice. All of the organizations present at the program worked diligently to make a successful event. We are now lobbying for the human rights provisions required in the constitution which have not been effectively implemented yet due to some technical reasons.

We believe that our event will change the perspectives of the people here for safeguarding the rights of all people.

 

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House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly Election 2017 Observation Accomplished with Enthusiasm

Posted: December 8, 2017 at 2:24 pm | Categories: Blog

The Women’s Foundation Nepal in coordination with the Election Observation Committee (EOC) Nepal has completed the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly election observations for the first and second election phases on 26th November and 7th December 2017. The EOC observed 72 districts out of 77 districts, of which the Women’s Foundation participated in observing in 15 districts. The Women’s Foundation has been observing different elections in Nepal since 1991 A.D..

The Women’s Foundation continues to grow with opportunities, such as assessing an electoral process according to international standards and best practices for genuine democratic elections. We believe in free and fair elections which strengthen the confidence of voters to participate freely and increase the credibility of the election results. Three hundred thirty-four Observers were appointed by the EOC from different districts, and among them, 90 observers were appointed from the Women’s Foundation with the responsibility of collecting and verifying information concerning the election process and further analyzing it from diverse perspectives. Our poll observers found the elections to be largely peaceful, with just a few infrequent clashes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). According to the Election Observation Commission, the voter turnout was satisfactory with 62% in the first phase and 67% in the second phase.

Voting process began at 7 am (few polling stations started from 7:15 to 7:30 am) and all of the polling station closed at 5 pm (in some cases voting continued to 10 pm). The people were witnessed queuing up with visible eagerness to elect their representatives. Polling places attempted to accommodate physically disabled people, senior citizens, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and sick people; however, many difficulties for the above mentioned categories of people were still observed, including a lack of wheel chairs, presence of big ladders, absence of first aid, inadequate toilets etc.

All of the political parties and representatives, Security Forces, Election Officers and their teams, Observers, and Media personnel fostered a positive polling environment and

contributed in bringing the ballot boxes to the district headquarters safely. Only a few cases of IEDs within vehicles carrying ballet boxes were reported. After completing the second phase of the election on 7th of December, the vote-counting process began.

We hope that these elections will establish the Federal Democratic Republic through implementation of the constitution and also end the protracted political transition. This will be a milestone in implementing the constitution and bringing democracy back on track.

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Federal Parliamentary and Provincial Assemblies Election 2017

Posted: November 26, 2017 at 11:50 am | Categories: Blog

Update: Today 26th November 2017, Nepal is holding the first phase of Federal Parliamentary and Provincial Assemblies Election under new federal structure, which it adopted in 2015 with the promulgation of the new constitution by the cabinet. The first phase of election will covers 32 districts of the total 77 districts of the country. Correspondingly, the second phase is taking place on December 7 in 45 districts of the Terai and hills.

With the pre-poll violence on rise, the Government of Nepal has deployed Nepal Army Security personnel for the election who will be placed in the third or the last layer of security ring. . Around half a dozen small bombs were exploded in various parts of the country over the weekend targeting candidates, in which at least a dozen people were injured. Police arrested different rebels who were involved in the violence and anti-poll activities with excessive harms.

Different district staffs, members and volunteers of the Women’s Foundation are observing the first phase of the Federal Parliamentary and Provincial Assemblies Election 2017. The polls on Sunday opened at 7 a.m. and will close at 5 p.m. The vote counting of the elections will only start after the completion of the both rounds of election.

We courage for the peaceful election with voting rights environment!

 

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Women’s Hub Advancement at Jhapa & Sunsari: July-September 2017

Posted: November 20, 2017 at 12:07 pm | Categories: Blog

The Women’s Hub Project is a joint commitment by the Women’s Foundation Nepal and the Global Women Project Australia to empower women in Jhapa and Sunsari of Nepal.  This project aims to empower women to become entrepreneurs, leaders alongside their male counterparts, and ensure they have the skills, experience, knowledge, and networks to succeed.

The flood 2017 in the districts obstacle different activities of the WHUB project. 400 families were supported with different relief materials as food, blankets, water, utensils etc. Members of WHUB were actively involved in relief distribution program in three districts in coordination with with different stakeholders and potential partners in preparation for distributing the relief to the flood victims.

In this 2nd Quarter the members in two working districts has been increased and now altogether we have 686 members. The WHUB team registered 12 VAW cases and supported morally and legally to fight for their right in Jhapa 1, Jhapa 2 and Sunsari. To empower women to become entrepreneurs and ensure their skills, experience, knowledge, and networks to succeed 11 women were provided loan for business, animal raising, poultry farming and agriculture as:

In order to provide the most benefit of the project, the project has been promoting the women participation in all the steps of project process. In short, the project have promoted women participation in all project process and activities to make sure they will get the most benefit from the WHUB project. To achieve the project objectives, the project team have work closely with the provincial administration, concern departments and ministries. This strong partnership will support the project management in the future project implementation in achieving the project target.

 

 

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