Project Report
| Mar 16, 2020
Empowering Adolescents in Sports and STEM
By Lucky K. Chhetri | Executive Director
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Empowering Women of Nepal conducted GOAL Leadership camp and STEM training on January 12th -17th, 2020 for young boys and girls aged below 18 years old of Jagat Sundar Secondary School, Kathmandu. The GOAL Training includes 4 modules: Be Yourself, Be healthy, Be Empowered and Be Money Savvy that includes sub-topics. STEM is a curriculum based idea of teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in an innovative and practical approach. The training program was 4 day GOAL camp and a day STEM introductory training for 46 participants: 27 girls and 19 boys of Jagat Sundar Secondary School's students.
The five day training was conducted based on the best time for school and participants at the time of school winter vacation so their classes are not disturbed. The training objective is to empower young girls and boys with valuable life skill and to help develop their math, science and computer skills. Participants were enthusiastic to learn through game and activities. They were actively participating and enjoying learning through activities. They learnt about leadership skills, communication skills, peer pressure, budgeting, women rights, contraception, managing money, saving plans, domestic violence in GOAL Event; and in STEM Event they learnt by doing in group activities like building earthquake resistant building, bridge, designing bubble and potato dome to learn scientific term and their application in our daily life. On the last day of training, distributed completion certificates to all participants.
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Dec 9, 2019
Grateful for the opportunities
By Lucky K. Chhetri | Executive Director
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Her father took her to Nepal when she was four, left her with his sister and went back to India. Mina didn't know her mother and father. When she got older, she asked her aunt about her parents and she replied that she didn't know where her parents were. Her aunt had a big family and had financial problem, which caused her to drop out of school during her seventh grade. She was helping her aunt in the field and at home.
She was just 14 years old when her aunt persuaded her to marry with nearby village man and the man told her that he was going to send her to school. After marriage, her husband sent her to school and later he went abroad for work. Her laws used to tell unnecessary things about her. Her husband scolded her on the phone. Every family member hated her and did not give her enough food to eat and rather give lots of work. By this behavior, she left home and went to Syangja and began to work in a hotel. They didn't come to look for her to take back during that time. After 4 months her family came to the Syangja Police Office to give her divorce notice and she was happy to give divorce. And she was still working at the hotel, and she met the man and shared her story and he told her to come to Pokhara so he could help her to find a job. She came to Pokhara and asked what you want to do and she replied that she wanted to continue her education. He sent me to the Children Home and completed her grade 12. After that she joined our female trekking guide training to learn skills and earn for her livelihood. She feels now confident in herself. Now she is working as an assistant guide at 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking Company.
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Aug 29, 2019
Encourage and Inspire Girls in STEM
By Lucky K. Chhetri | Director
EWN Girls Get STEM Project is a six months project for underprivileged school girls. Its goal is to provide STEM training to promote an interest of these girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills. We started STEM program on December 4, 2015 in 3 different public schools with 270 girls in Pokhara. Later we continued this program in another school-Mahendra Secondary School with 104 girls in 2018 to motivate and build confidence in foundational STEM such as computer literacy and scientific problem solving to the disadvantaged girls. . To start our next STEM program, EWN organized 2 days STEM ToT to 3 school teachers of Shree Krishna School on Aug 2 and 3, 2019.
Girls mainly our country Nepali girls are marginalized in science, engineering, math and computer to the degree of their male counterparts in certain scientific interests and participation by the time they complete school level. Many girls may have an interest in STEM and enjoy it. But they do not always have the same opportunities as boys to complete and benefit from an education of their choice. Many girls are held back by biases, social norms and expectations influencing the quality of the education they receive and the subjects they study.
The beneficiaries are young school girls ages 12-15 studying in grade 6,7,8 and 9 who have no access to computers at home and attend the schools that are not well facilitated. A trainer lead sessions on every Friday afternoon after school hours. Trainers are school subject teachers who are providing training to strengthen and enhance awareness of the importance of STEM education for girls.
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