Empowerment Projects
We believe when women are supported and empowered, all of society benefits. Their families are healthier, more children go to school, agricultural productivity improves and incomes increase. In short, communities become more resilient. In Nepal, women bear almost all responsibility for meeting basic needs of the family, yet are systematically denied the resources, information and freedom of action they need to fulfill this responsibility. The projects we support through our Nepal partner, Taksindu Social Welfare (TSW), are focused on empowering women through enhanced skill training to restore their potentialities and build their capacity in society for innovative economic activities.
It is 
important to remember that the world’s highest mountains are home to some of the world’s poorest families, 1 out of 2 girls do not attend school and “75 percent of all women are illiterate”. Together, this sisterhood or didi-bahini carries the heavy burden of poverty in Nepal. Our objective of funding womens’ empowerment projects is the hope that we will provide a group of women, who did not have the opportunity of an education, to develop new skills and capabilities. The current projects we are supporting are designed to specifically uplift an interested group of women within a community.
Completed Projects – 2010/2011
Women Empowerment Project WAKU VDC
- Market based skill & micro-credit training
- Project overview matrix - Womens Empowerment Project by TSW 2010
Women Empowerment Project BASA VDC
- Market based skill & micro-credit training