Atlas Corps: Empower Women Globally (#GivingToday)

Hello!

How are you? The Atlas Corps Team is sending you our best wishes!

As a show of our support, it is time to celebrate achievements of amazing Atlas Corps Alumni who are making inspiring impacts against COVID-19. Today, we want to talk with our Alumna Medha (Class 16, Nepal, Host: The Nike Foundation) about her efforts to support women, girls, and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal. Medha founded Visible Impact, a nonprofit organization that aims to create Visible Impact on the lives of women, girls, and youth by unleashing their social and economic leadership. During the current lockdown, Medha and Visible Impact continue to support women and girls by protecting their sexual and reproductive rights and ensuring that they have access to necessary services.

Medha shared her insights on the importance of supporting women during the pandemic:

"Women have been hit the hardest by the pandemic, and especially in a patriarchal society like Nepal, the violence that women and girls are facing is going to have very long term consequences. It is important that there is open access to justice, protection from violence, and sexual and reproductive health services. This once in a century pandemic has given us all lessons to learn. I hope that everyone is able to view the safety of women and girls at their surroundings as their responsibility during this time of COVID-19 and that the world will be better and safer for all girls and women post COVID-19."

Read more about Medha and her team in this recent blog post.

Thanks to Medha, and all of your team, for everything that you do! We wish you the best with this inspiring work!

Also, thank YOU for supporting Medha and our community of 775+ social change leaders from 96 countries!

Be well-

Abby

P.S. Read additional Alumni highlights in our #believeinsuperheroes series.