Education is the key factor for women empowerment, prosperity, development and welfare. Discrimination of women from the womb to the tomb is well known. There is continued inequality and Vulnerability of women in all sectors and women oppressed in all spheres of life, they need to be empowered in all walks of their life.
Women are always busy in household work doing everything whether it’s household chores or taking care of children and other members from in-laws. Our society has been confined to women’s potentiality and deprived them of all of the privileges. Although, our Nepal constitution has secured their rights they are still so far on the way to achieve full control of their rights.
In the context of Jitpurphedi women, they are strong enough to break the chain of societal stigma and without hesitation, willing to take a step forward for the change and even more empowered than before through expressing their voice towards social norms..Jipurphedi is a community which is the area of Tarkeshwor Municipality. VIN has been implementing the Women Empowerment project since 2007. The main objective of the project is to empower women socially and economically by providing different skills set and awareness training and has been accumulating positive outcomes. At the beginning of this project, VIN has conducted a meeting with the local women of Jitpurphedi. The agenda of the meeting was to notify, setting up the schedule and ensure the number of interested participants for the English and computer classes. The response from the women was way more overwhelmed than it was expected. They were filled with joyous and expressed how much they are willing to attend and learn from the classes. They have also expressed gratitude towards VIN for executing this type of activity Furthermore, to intensify the meeting, women were encouraged to share their opinion by asking why they are willing to attend English and Computer Classes. The meeting was concluded followed by the settlement of the objectives and schedule based on their opinion and preference
The objectives of English class and Computer class are given below into two segments
English classes’ objectives:
- Learn how to start a basic conversation with the international volunteers
- Learn to improve in message writing and reply skills in phone
- Capable to support their children with the homework
- Able to recognize English letters and word
Computer classes’ objectives:
- Learn how to use basic computer
- Learn how to use a mobile phone
- Learn how to create an email account and compose emails
- Learn how to explore job sites and apply for the jobes
- Learn how to develop CV
- Learn how to explore and purchase materials through online shopping
The 6 months time frame has been set up to achieve above objectives. There will be more involvement of the volunteers in between the time frame to support the classes even more effectively. The classes will be operated for 4 days a week, for instance, two days for English class and two days for computer class. English and computer classes are divided into two shifts one is for basic class and the second is an intermediate class.
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