Strength TogetHER : Cohort 3

September 12, 2020. Strength TogetHER facilitated by Lokopakar has been providing a platform for girls where they can share their thoughts, feelings and build peer support. Its a virtual program where girls don’t feel any kind of obligation and speak without fear. It was a memorable journey of 5 weeks and I feel sad that is the last blog for Cohort 3. The feeling of our first lesson and last session was so different. From sharing our thoughts about gender equality to expressing our dream job, I feel very comfortable to speak with these girla by now. Each of them inspired in one way or another. We had our amazing Ms. Rozina Dahal with us for the last session.  Our last session’s topic was “Beyond pink and blue”. The topic itself speaks a lot. It was more about gender-stereotyping and we know we have spoken about this topic before but this one turned out different from previous ones. We girls and boys are living in a typical society where we have to pursue our dreams according to our gen

September 5, 2020. Strength TogetHER, facilitated by Lokopakar is a virtual place for girls to speak their hearts out while in a group and find peer support. It provides girls a platform to express their feeling, emotions, and stories. Girls form a group and comfortably share it while they have a moderator to guide them. It is really a joyful note that it has been our 5th session already and rather than being nervous I feel a different kind of excitement to interact with them and share experiences and stories. We had our respected Amina ma’am with us again for this session. Being a cohort of young dreamers, the topic we decided for the session was “Chasing our Dreams”. It is no longer a myth that girls who chase their dreams are the real superheroes. Dreams are what make us compassionate and driven to pursue it. Now, it’s a known fact that girls are capable as boys that’s something we can’t argue about. If a boy is an engineer, they are an engineer but if a girl is an engineer, she is

  29 August,2020 “Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.” –  Nellie McClung   Strength Together facilitated by Lokopakar is a virtual program that lets girls voice their opinions, ideas, and even share their own stories be it personal or outside related. It targets for enhancement of youths while girls are present with an honorable moderator to provide them suggestions and feedbacks. It has been a blissful ride from session 1 to session 4.   Our moderator for this session was Ms. Amina Shrestha. She is a proud single mother and teacher. She has finished her MBA from Kathmandu University. She is currently educating at Uniglobe college. She is the perfect example of a brave, heroic, and courageous person. Our last session with her where she shared her personal experience totally inspired all of us and now, she is again here with us to encourage us with her tender words.   Our topic for this very session was “ Power within us ”. The topic itse