Building a Sustainable Future For Girls in Nepal

Empowering Women of Nepal conducted GOAL Leadership camp and STEM training on January 12^th -17^th, 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.