Dear Brian,
Several times women form Kavre district and Dolakha and Morang and Sunsari [MAP] district have made requests to open a branch of the Women’s Foundation.

To start a branch the Women’s Foundation requires funds to provide basic activities. At each office, at least one person should be there to collect information and make a record of the women’s situation, send the information to the WF office in Kathmandu, or other social organization in the district, to provide counseling for women in pain or in a violent situation etc,as well as raise their voice in the government office.  An office also requires office equipment, telephone and electric cost etc. So we could not establish theseoffices at this time.

Last week, WF received information  from Kavre  district about a women who was badly beaten by her husband and his family.
She was nearly killed. When we received that information, two of WF people and I went to the district. Sita Kharel and Durga Upreti were with me.
We helped bring the women to the hospital and also we reported the case at the police office in Kavre.

I would like to explain little about Karvre.

Kavre district is very near Kkathmandu, just across the border form Bhaktpur. Several organizations are working there for development although the situation of the local people is not improved. There are mixed groups, Bramin is high cast although their condition is not better than others.

Many children have no opportunity to go to school;  70% of the primary level children who have been admitted to school were not at school when we arrived. We asked the teacher about the reason for the children's absence. The teacher replied that the majority of the children go to work in Kathmandu or Bhaktpur to work in the brick or carpet factories. They have nothing to eat in their homs - so children go to the city to work with their parents or their relatives. So they might come to school in three of four months. They could not pass in exam/ The drop out rate is very high.   Domestic violence is very high. The situation of women is very poor. Most of the women in the village are illiterate.

When we went to the village, helped to save a women, and held discussions with the village women - they said there are urgent needs for literacy and micro credit programs. Legal education will be very helpful for them.