Strength TogetHER 17 (Jumla)

February 12,2022. On 12th February, 2022 we conducted an online session on the topic, “A time I felt sad” partnering with the ZONTA Club of Kathmandu. Zonta club is a legally registered NGO that has been working on the advancement of the status of women with the objective to improve the economy, education, health and issues related to youth and violence against women.  Our moderator for the session was Miss. Rosy Karna, who is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology at the PGSP Stanford Psy.D. Consortium Program. As an aspiring clinical psychologist, her long term goal is to utilize her clinical knowledge and experience to establish a better mental health care system in Nepal.  We started our session with the first participant's story. She shared that when she joined Forestry, she didn’t like being in the class. But, later she attended the classes and started liking it. She made a lot of friends and was enjoying the classes when her friends stopped talki...

  29th January,2022 Lokopakar in partnership with the Zonta Club of Kathmandu has been conducting virtual sessions with participants from Jumla. This is our Cohort 17. Zonta Club is a legally registered NGO that has been working on the advancement of the status of women with the objective to improve the economy, education, health and issues related to youth and violence against women. We started our session, “Catcalling is not normal, & social media abuse” at 10 AM on 29th January, 2022. Our moderator for the day was Mrs. Ratna Karki. We started the session with our participant’s stories which they had either heard, or seen or something that had experienced before. One of the participants mentioned, Boys tease around but whatever they say we have to be silent and we just keep quiet. If we do something back we will lose our respect. One of our participants shared during her Grade 10 they used to go far away for tuition. The roads were round and round. Boys used to stay in the ro...