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Women Empowerment Project in Nepal

Women Empowerment Project - Soap Project: 

This project aims to build a soap factory in Dhading, a rural village in Nepal, and to train and to empower women in the village to have an environment for income generation which helps the self- sustainability of women and help improve their families livelyhood.


Region and back ground
Dhading is situated in the North West of Kathmandu (capital on Nepal) and has breath taking scenery of mountains and rivers. It is 80% farmland and 20% forest but the people here hardly have any income. Some parts of the region are not accessible by car nor might they have clean drinking water, electricity or toilets. Literacy rate is low but schools have been set up to help the children get education. 
 
Why Soap?
Majority of Nepalese house hold (60 - 70%) in Nepal do not own a washing machine  or dishwasher for various reasons, financial being the top. The clothes are washed by hand with soap. There is a big market for it.  Empower1 (501 c 3 non-profit based in US) and Peace4People (Non-profit based in Nepal) are partnering to help build a soap factory and train local women to make soaps which can be sold in markets to generate income for them and their families. Currently, due to low literacy rate among women in the village, they are limited to house and farm work and dependent on their male figure of the household. Once trained, the women in the village will be able to generate income by selling soaps, be independent and help improve their families livelihood.

Some pictures from our previous project: 
Women Empowerment Project (WEP) - Goat Project.



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Empower 1
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South Burlington, VT
Empower 1 Inc (Empower 1)
 
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