GIRLS’ LEARNING CENTRE
BACKGROUND ON THE PROGRAM
Our Girls’ Empowerment Program (GEP) was launched in rural Nepal in 2018 to help vulnerable girls escape marital slavery, trafficking and abuse along with focusing on education, counselling, vocational training and so much more.
Originally supporting 24 girls, the GEP has grown exponentially to reach just under 27,000 Nepalese girls with life-changing opportunities throughout the whole country.
Covering everything from healthcare to menstrual hygiene and self-defence to career opportunities, the GEP offers girls new beginnings at a formative stage of life.
The GEP has overcome entrenched cultural beliefs and stigma which often meant girls were forced to spend their monthly period shut away alone in animal huts. They would never speak up in public, let alone speak to a man.
Fast forward to today and the GEP sees girls interviewing politicians on the program’s weekly national TV show, winning international youth awards and achieving success in sport. Alongside this, the girls are carving out amazing careers all while becoming pillars of their communities.
Local communities across Nepal have embraced the GEP and now benefit from confident, empowered and happy young women ready to make a crucial difference locally and nationally. In 2022, with over 100,000 Nepalese households watching the GEP’s weekly national TV show, KANALLAN launched the GEP nationwide across all seven Nepalese provinces.
All of this has culminated in the need to take next step…
Our Girls’ Learning Centre and Safe House:
Once construction is complete this building will serve 10’s of thousands of vulnerable young women for decades to come. The centre will provide standard education, education around health and the menstrual cycle, self defence, legal services, safety, counselling and much more.
There will also be a heavy focus on vocational training, business classes, finance, careers entrepreneurship, music and the arts.
It is a truly unique project that has only been made possible from the amazing achievements of these incredibly brave girls; completely changing the local mindset towards young women.
As you will see below we are well into construction and we are on time and on budget and continue to fund-raise as we proceed.
CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
