10 Days Training of the Trainers on Women’s Empowerment for 40 women in Rural Nepal through Floriculture Training with the support of Marie-Schlei-Verein e. V., Germany has been started. The opening ceremony and the TOT program was started with the chairmanship of local ward member and president of the organization Ms. Kamala Upreti. This short training is designed to produce lower-level technical workforce able to work and equipped with skills, knowledge and positive attitudes related to flower management, gardening and cut flower production in order to meet the demand of such workforce in the country so as to contribute in the national streamline of poverty reduction and economic empowerment of Nepal. 

Amid the shortage of oxygen with a sharp increase of covid 19 patients in the hospitals the oxygen concentrators has been sent to the hospital and isolation wards in different districts. The oxygen concentrators are supported by GLS Future Foundation for development Germany. 

The Women’s Foundation has been running Quarantine and Isolation Ward Support in Sindhupalchowk district with the objective of breaking the chain of COVID-19 and reduce transmission and death toll in rural areas.

The people from the rural areas are getting the facilities of quarantine and isolation wards. Moreover, the rural population are aware about the causes, sign and symptoms, and preventive measures of COVID-19.

With the support of GLS Future Foundation for Development the Women’s Foundation have distributed 72 oxygen concentrators to the concerned isolation wards in different districts of Nepal. The oxygen concentrators are distributed to : 

• Rural Economic Social Improvement Centre (RESIC), Nepalgunj
• Sushma Koirala Memorial (SKM) Hospital, Sankhu-Salambutar
• Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation (KRMEF)
• Chalnakhel, Prisoners Assistance Mission (PAM)
• Women Acting Together for Change (WATCH), Battisputali
• Covid Isolation Centre, Kathmanu Metropiltan City Ward No. 17
• Covid Isolation Centre, Kathmanu Metropiltan City Ward No. 6
• Covid Isolation Centre, Kageshwori Manohara Municipality, Ward No. 5
• Quarantine and Isolation Ward Centre, Melamchi Municipality -1
• Sindhupalchowk and Women’s Foundation district offices, shelter and head office, Bouddha

Teej is one of the greatest festival of women in Nepal. WF Family celebrated the festival of Teej with great enthusiasm. This year the festival we celebrated the festival together by organizing the program.

Also, children from WF home celebrated Teej by dancing and singing teej song with a great joy. All the woman and also children were involved in the festival.The event was a grand success and a learning experience for kids at WF home.

The extension of lockdown as a measure to slowdown the spread of the disease has been rising a problem to the people in need. In this regards, the Women’s Foundation has been distributing food relief package to families’  (house to house and door to door) who are affected by the lockdown. We have already distributed relief food packages to the families in Sunsari district affected by the lockdown. The relief distribution program in various districts of Nepal Bhaktapur, Jhapa 1 and Jhapa 2 is ongoing.   

And it is all possible with the support bighearted donors, friends and family of the Foundation. We thank you all our donors, friends, staffs and local people for supporting our program to make it more effective to reach people in need in such difficult time.  

Skill Development Training in Bhaktapur District, supported by Global Women’s Project. The main objective of this project is to make women face challenges by strengthening collective self-help capacities leading to their empowerment through participations and trainings for income generation. The beneficiaries would be skilled in sewing, doll making , art & craft etc.

This training is helping women to empower economically, because it shapes women’s choices of occupations, jobs and places of work. We heartily want to thank Global Women’s Project  for supporting this course and therefore realizing skill development for the participants.

The theme of Women’s day 2021 is: Women in leadership: achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world. This year’s International Women’s Day campaign has chosen the theme #ChooseToChallenge with the idea that a challenged world is an alert world and individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions. “We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality,” “We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.” WFN actively participated and coordinated in the concerned activities in the day. 

Dashain is one of the biggest festivals in Nepal and was celebrated at the end of October. At WFN we celebrated by putting a tika on the forehead and getting blessings from the elders.

Children from the shelter home came to the solidarity home and received a tika and blessings from Kamala Upreti, president of WFN and Devendra Parajuli, program supervisor of WFN.