Empowerment Through Computer Literacy Nepal
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Our Pitch: Hijaab Yahya, Jessica Campbell, Jaimie Reynolds, Sampavy Satkunarasa & Griffin Barrett.
We are Carleton University students collaborating with The Women’s Foundation Nepal to set up a computer lab for the mothers, their children, and orphans living in the organization’s long term shelter home in Kathmandu, Nepal. Through the foundation's efforts women acquire employable skills and watch their daughters attain an education and agency over their futures. However, in a connected world computer literacy is imperative to employment opportunities and higher education. Acknowledging our privilege and luck in being young women inhabiting the time and place we do, we are deeply passionate about this project and are reaching out to our community for support in creating opportunities for women just like us. Thank you!
About the Project:
Currently over 100 children are receiving an education with the support of the foundation and several have received scholarships for university in business and even the computer sciences, but they have no computers to practice on at home! We are fundraising to purchase 3 refurbished desktop computers that will be outfitted with open source software by our volunteer computer engineer, Griffin Barrett, and transported to Nepal May 2020 with our Sociology classmates.
Our greatest consideration for this project has been bringing machines that will have a long life and serve the needs of both the younger children and university students. 100 % of donations are going to the machines, there is zero overhead costs in this project. All finances will be reviewed by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Carleton University to ensure accountability.
Budget breakdown:
About the Women's Foundation Nepal
The Women’s Foundation Nepal (WFN), started by a group of politically active female Nepali students, strives to improve the legal rights and life chances of women in Nepal. This is accomplished through social justice, advocacy, and activism to ameliorate the status of women in Nepal. It emphasizes the need for equality of men and women within the law to give women the opportunity to shape the future of Nepal. In practice this includes running shelter homes and providing support to survivors of violence, abuse, and poverty, totaling 120 children and 30 women. In addition to housing, these shelter homes address the medical, psychological, and legal needs of the women and children. The WFN provides education, skills training, and empowerment programs to women and children at the foundation. The foundation provides women and children access to a non-violent education up to the 10th grade, and then further invests in their future by arranging access to university scholarships.
For more information about the Women’s Foundation of Nepal visit their website , or their YouTube channel .
Concluding Remarks
We're so grateful for your support and excited to include you in our project! Please keep up-to-date with the status of our project on our Facebook page.
-Hijaab, Jessica, Jaimie, Sampavy & Griffin
We are Carleton University students collaborating with The Women’s Foundation Nepal to set up a computer lab for the mothers, their children, and orphans living in the organization’s long term shelter home in Kathmandu, Nepal. Through the foundation's efforts women acquire employable skills and watch their daughters attain an education and agency over their futures. However, in a connected world computer literacy is imperative to employment opportunities and higher education. Acknowledging our privilege and luck in being young women inhabiting the time and place we do, we are deeply passionate about this project and are reaching out to our community for support in creating opportunities for women just like us. Thank you!
About the Project:
Currently over 100 children are receiving an education with the support of the foundation and several have received scholarships for university in business and even the computer sciences, but they have no computers to practice on at home! We are fundraising to purchase 3 refurbished desktop computers that will be outfitted with open source software by our volunteer computer engineer, Griffin Barrett, and transported to Nepal May 2020 with our Sociology classmates. Our greatest consideration for this project has been bringing machines that will have a long life and serve the needs of both the younger children and university students. 100 % of donations are going to the machines, there is zero overhead costs in this project. All finances will be reviewed by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Carleton University to ensure accountability.
Budget breakdown:
About the Women's Foundation Nepal
The Women’s Foundation Nepal (WFN), started by a group of politically active female Nepali students, strives to improve the legal rights and life chances of women in Nepal. This is accomplished through social justice, advocacy, and activism to ameliorate the status of women in Nepal. It emphasizes the need for equality of men and women within the law to give women the opportunity to shape the future of Nepal. In practice this includes running shelter homes and providing support to survivors of violence, abuse, and poverty, totaling 120 children and 30 women. In addition to housing, these shelter homes address the medical, psychological, and legal needs of the women and children. The WFN provides education, skills training, and empowerment programs to women and children at the foundation. The foundation provides women and children access to a non-violent education up to the 10th grade, and then further invests in their future by arranging access to university scholarships.
For more information about the Women’s Foundation of Nepal visit their website , or their YouTube channel .Concluding Remarks
We're so grateful for your support and excited to include you in our project! Please keep up-to-date with the status of our project on our Facebook page.
-Hijaab, Jessica, Jaimie, Sampavy & Griffin
Fundraising team: Community Engaged Sociology; Carleton University (3)
Jessica Campbell
Organiser
Raised $200 from 2 donations
Ottawa, ON
Jaimie Reynolds
Team member
Raised $312 from 5 donations
Griffin Barrett
Team member
