Strength TogetHER : Cohort 6

December 26,2020 Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their views, opinions, perspectives, experiences, their issues and find solutions to them. On 26 december,2020 ,the 8th session of cohort 6 was conducted with the participation of 17 girls and  was moderated by Simran Khatri, a fresh graduate of Bachelors in Development Studies who has been working in the field of development as she aspires to spread awareness among women and children in different issues through Global Peace Foundation Nepal. Spreading happiness by helping others to receive happiness from others clearly defines one of the levels in this happiness game. In this session all of us discussed about the smallest of the smallest things that makes us smile to the best.Some of the  sunshine in our speakers life which makes them happy are:  1. Playing with pup

December 12,2021. Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by  'LOKOPAKAR ', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their views, opinions, perspectives, experiences, their issues and find solutions to them. Our 7th session themed "VALUE FOR SELF" conducted on 12 December,2020 was moderated by our very cheerful and talented Simran Khatri s who is a fresh graduate of Bachelors in Development Studies . She has been working in the field of development as she aspires to spread awareness among women and children in different issues through Global Peace Foundation Nepal. Coming towards the end of cohort 6 and knowing about each other more and more ,this session ended up to become one of the best and most emotional sessions of cohort 6. The comfort among us made it easy for the participants to share their stories very beautifully .  Just because our first speaker needed some

  A healthy mind does not speak ill of others. You never look cool while making someone else look bad. If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you are above them, it only makes you more stronger and powerful. Even good people have some limits. In order to make the session fruitful and productive,  Strength togetHER, cohort 6  conducted its  sixth session  on the topic,  "Bullying or Bullied?"   The session was guided by our cheerful and resourceful moderator,  Miss Rosy Karna , who is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in clinical psychology. Her long term goal is to establish a better mental health care system. Moving forward with the session, we had five speakers who shared their stories to get inspired and inspire others as well. • Our first speaker shared a story of her friend who had constantly been bullied by a bunch of seniors during her late childhood. She had been tortured and bullied at nights by using scary props as well. This experience mad

7th November,2020 " IT TAKES COURAGE TO GROW UP AND BE WHO YOU REALLY ARE " We themed our fifth session of strength TogetHER 6 as "KNOW YOUR RAINBOW" and discussed fair and vague topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. We were comforted under the safe mentorship of Miss Swastika Dangal , who is an undergraduate student at Kathmandu School of Law. She has worked in her own project "Women's Right Starts At Home" and is currently working on a project " Let's TALK ; Let's get embarrassed" which is about providing sex education to teenagers.  Moving forward, we let the speakers who'd to share their stories proceed with the session: A girl who was on a tripp with our first speaker confessed about her gender identity when they were drunk. She shared her next story about a time when they were travelling by train and explained how her friends (mostly boys) ran seeing a group of trans people who were on their block clapping h

October 31, 2020 The month of festivals gave us a brilliant idea for the fourth session of Strength TogetHER 6 ,themed "FESTIVALS FT. PERIODS" .We were moderated by Miss Subani Sijapati who is currently getting her bachelors in business and holistic health in San Francisco State University. She is also a founding member of Hami Nepal organization  and has also been an active member of Nepali women Global Network CA chapter since 2013.  With no delay in  the sequel , we heard the experiences that our participants had to share : •Our first speaker when visited her relative's house during her periods , she was horrified by the act of her cousin who stopped her at the kitchen entrance and didn't let our speaker enter the kitchen room just because she was on her periods. That incident  really saddened her about how that pre-teenaged cousin of her's was bound in those misbeliefs . •Our second speaker shared her story about the time when she attended a marriage of one of

17th October,2020 Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR ', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their views, opinions, perspectives, experiences, their issues and find solutions to them. Strength TogetHER cohort 6 successfully conducted it's third session.Our moderator for the session was Mrs. Ashmita Sharma who is currently a Marketing Manager of Fightback. She is an organized, creative and enthusiastic person working to expand the market of the company that works to reduce the risk of sexual violence against women and girls. Taking the field of expertise of our moderator in mind, we had selected the topic " Catcalling is not normal." We had four speakers sharing their stories where they felt unsafe. All the stories showed how difficult they felt during those times.  Our first speaker shared how she was chased by a man. This incident made her f