Acknowledgment to Donors!
With the collaboration with Village Earth ICA Nepal was able to support 40 autistic children residing in Special School for Disabled Rehabilitation Center (SSDRC) with hygienic food for two months. SSDRC, which is situated in Bhaktapur District of Nepal admits and provides facilities free of charge for the students receiving education from there. The students there belong to various marginalized communities like indigenous and so-called low caste groups of Nepal. The school gives priority to more needy and vulnerable children who cannot afford to get the better schooling for their children. On the basis of poor economic condition, rural origin and severity of autism, children are admitted in the school. All of the children are autistic and receive special education including various physio-therapies in the school. The school provides them day care facilities with various vocational trainings, therapies and education.
Happy faces of students at (Special School for Disabled Rehabilitation Center) SSDRC
With an aim to improve physical hygiene of the children and support the organization for managing food items for 2 months for 40 children with Autism from age 3-13, ICA Nepal uploaded the project in the website of Village Earth. The amount which was collected after the effort was handed over to founder of SSDRC, Ms Sabita Upreti. The therapy sessions and education as well as vocational trainings are expensive affair and lack of financial support compromises the proper care of the needy children. SSDRC is dedicated to provide optimum support for the development of the children there. ICA Nepal along with SSDRC is very thankful for the generous support of the donors for the noble cause.
In brief: Training and Facilitation for Capacity Building
ICA Nepal is currently working with diverse groups of the society ranging from people living with disabilities, school teachers, development workers, young people, women and Rotarians through social artistry initiatives. International Trainers, Ms. Janet Sanders from USA and Ms. Evelyn Philbrook from Taiwan have been facilitating series of Social Artistry Leadership Trainings this month. Social Artistry Leadership training facilitates the development of skills and potentials in both individuals and groups in ways that enhance their societal awareness, liberate their inventiveness, increase their ability to work cooperatively with others, and raise their levels of self-esteem.
The training aims to tap inherent human capacities for greater imagination, compassion and resolve. This training aims to use multiple styles of thinking and expand the contemporary leadership challenges to manage the complex social and organizational issues.
Two participants engaging in an activity to enhance deep listening skills at Social Artistry Leadership Training organized for differently disabled people
Community Development Initiatives
In order to empower civil societies and local community, ICA Nepal has initiated community development activities in remote and rural locations of far and mid-western region of Nepal. With the series of intervention, ICA Nepal aims to improve the living standard, social and economic status of the marginalized community of the region and thereby preservation of human rights, actions against discrimination, implementation of rights and laws, restoration of peace and justice.
Call for support: Rural Women Struggling with Unsanitary Way of Dish Washing
Local woman in Parbat washing dishes outside her house without any sanitary approach
The problematic topography of our country has constrained development. Parbat is one such example of the case. The topography hinders development in many ways but as the fate of most of the hilly districts Parbat faces proper hygiene, water crunch and sanitation issues. The unsanitary way of washing dishes makes the area prone to water borne epidemics and infections, water pollution and promotes unhygienic practices. The people here have no basic awareness about the impact of such unsanitary way of life and moreover they don’t have enough capital to spend for the construction of the basin which would prevent them from many diseases and also make the surrounding beautiful.
The latest project uploaded in Village Earth aims to curb this situation by constructing sanitary dish washing pits in 100 households of the area where proper facility of dish washing is not accessible. The water collected in the pits can also be reused for farming purpose. This project, ‘construction of proper dish washing basin and reuse of grey water in a remote village of Parbat’ is designed to provide the villagers of Parbat district with sanitized dish washing pits with the purpose of maintaining healthy and sanitary practice. Once the fund is collected, project will be implemented within 6 months by ‘Kali lamaya laghu udhyami mahila sahakari’, the women-cooperatives based in Parbat. Therefore, with this project we aim to induce reusing culture in the area, promote hygiene and proper dishwashing system. Therefore through this, ICA Nepal likes to take an opportunity to request support to help the local rural women of Parbat.
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