VIN’S EDUCATION, RIGHTS, AND LIFE SKILLS PROJECT: English, Maths And Life Skills Classes In Kavresthali
In Nepal, men occupy most of the opportunities of employment, responsibilities, and resources while most of the women are illiterate and have unskilled jobs as vendors in small shops, sell fruit and vegetables in markets or are small farmers. This lack of education and employment is nothing other than gender-based violence – both social and economical. That is why VIN contributes to educating women in order to develop new generations with more equality.
For the past five weeks, VIN Staffs have conducted some English, Math and Life Skills classes in the community of Dalkap, Kavresthali.
Every morning the English and Math class gathers participants from three different women groups in Kavresthali. The women, whose ages range from 25 to the mid-50s, are really showing a strong eagerness to learn. During one and a half hour each day, they focus on drawing and recognizing the English letters and numbers or adding numbers using columns. The more advanced students are also learning how to introduce themselves in English.
The Life Skills workshops, on the other hand, take place in the afternoon when the women are not busy working in the fields. Within a month, VIN has been able to deliver three different workshops to participants from the Gyanodaya and Shivpuri women groups. The topics discussed included Domestic violence, Personal identity & self-awareness, and Communication. The main objectives of the first workshop were to educate women on gender-based domestic violence by asking them to think of its consequences on the personal life and of the ways to combat it. The second workshop leads them to talk about themselves in public and to think about their priorities in life by representing them on a mandala. Finally, the third workshop brought the women to brainstorm about communication, to find examples where communication had helped them in the past and to think of better ways to discuss and solve their everyday relationship issues.
The project should continue and move to Devisthan community, Kavresthali after Tihar festival!
Submitted by Manon Guillin, International volunteer, on 10/23/2019
Member of