Lions Club of Hetauda Lord Buddha Visits the Safe Home

The Lions Club of Hetauda Lord Buddha organized the Kheer Feeding Program at the Safe Home in Hetauda-18. They showed their love for our program by celebrating the Nepali traditional rice pudding day, which marks the end of the paddy planting season in Nepal. 

This dish holds both cultural and religious importance, as well as health benefits. We are extremely grateful for their generosity and the wonderful event they planned for our children!

Basic Sewing and Cutting Vocational Training Graduation

Congratulations to our eight women who completed their basic sewing and cutting vocational training courses! After the completion of their program, we distributed sewing machines, and other essential items to support their future businesses. 

Our sewing and cutting training has empowered them with the confidence to sustain their families and contribute to the local economy. We wish them continued success and the best of luck in their future pursuits!

This oratory competition was based on raising public awareness about reducing child marriages and gender-based violence in the Ruby Valley Rural Municipality, Dhading district, Nepal. The oratory competition was organized by the grade six students. The oratory held several categories of competition for the students, including "Our Role in Reducing Child Marriage”, and "Our Role in Reducing Gender-Based Violence".  

The first category delivered awareness about Child Rights, their responsibilities, and spoke out against child marriage. While the second was organized by the women in coordination with the Social Development Ministry of Bagmati Province and Ruby Valley Rural Municipality. Our women and children who participated won both categories, receiving certificates and trophies, along with other various prizes!

Mr. Ram Singh Tamang, the chairman of Ruby Valley Rural Municipality, attended as the chief guest. In addtion to the chairman, respective ward presidents, program coordinators of the Shechen Karuna organization, school teachers, and various women's groups, attended as well. Our deepest congratulations to all the participants & winners!  

Stationery Distribution to Community Children, The First of It's Kind!

We hosted the Education Material Distribution Program on Baisakh 24, 2081 B.S. The Vice-President of WPC, Bhishma Raj Sapkota, inaugurated the program. The chief guest was the President of Hetauda Submetropolitan City, Ward Number 4, Nabin Sigdel. 

WPC distributed school supplies to 50 children from Play Group to grade 10. We are so excited to support their education, and help further their studies with the supplies necessary to achieve their aspirations!

Basic Sewing and Cutting Training Inauguration

Annually, we provide basic vocational training to two women's groups. For our second group of this year, we welcomed new women to the program with a welcome ceremony in their honor! In Chaitra 1, 2080, "Basic Sewing and Cutting Training" was inaugurated by the program’s Chief Guest, Mr. Nabin Sigdel, the chairman of ward No. 4 of Hetauda sub-metropolitan city, Makawanpur.

The vocational program empowers our women with the necessary skills to establish and manage their own tailoring shops, fostering independence, and contributing to the economy. We would like to extend our deepest congratulations and welcome to all 8 participants on this journey of growth and learning in vocational training!

Basic Sewing and Cutting Training Graduation & Sewing Machine Distribution Program

Congratulations to our 8 women and girls who have completed their sewing and Cutting vocational training courses! On Falgun 22, 2080 B.S., upon the completion of their training, we distributed certificates of course completion, brand new sewing interlock machines, and the essential materials required to start their own tailoring businesses. 

This business will not only help these women and girls, but will also support their families in the years to come. We wish them all the best and the greatest successes in the future! 

 Event Supported by Dana, Peter, David, Lynn & Michael

On Falgun 18, 2080, we organized the Get-Together event supported by our donors Dana, Peter, David, Lynn & Michael. All the WPC members got a chance to meet and reconnect with each other. This can be difficult to do after reintegrating many of our women and girls into their homes, so we are so grateful for the opportunity to reunite everyone! 

During the celebration, new and old members of our community got to share a meal, dance together, and get together with people from many generations of WPC's decades-long work. This celebration was more than a marker of our successful programming for so many members of the WPC community, it was a reminder that our family keeps growing more and more every year. We're so grateful to all our donors, especially these five amazing partners, for all the love they have shown us over the years!

We are excited to share our recent accomplishments with you! 

On Magh & Falgun, 2080 B.S., we delivered our Awareness Program to 13 different places. Eleven women’s groups and six schools across six wards of Ruby Valley Rural Municipality, Dhading district received awareness training. We're so proud of the successes of our skilled team members and coaches who helped accomplish our goal of educating individuals on these vital life skills. 

Our long time partner from the United States brings her students to visit!

For many years, Melissa Moffet and various teams of students have supported WPC's mission by volunteering their time with our children at the Safe Home. We are so grateful to this year's team for bringing new color to the Safe Home, by desiging murals for the Safe Home's gate, wall and fences. The beautiful bright colors level up the playground, and a red border around the fence matches the building perfectly. 

In addition to making our safe home beautiful, they helped construct the driveway and pathway in front of the main door of the Safe Home. This created a long-term impact on the safety of the building, and will help our children and staff with getting to and from work and school! We are incredibly grateful for their long-term support, hard work, and love.

Local environmental action makes a world of difference

WPC Nepal has been working hard to fight climate change. We believe that human rights are impacted by global circumstances and working to reduce climate change is one of the primary ways we can change lives. 

We organized the "Keep our City Clean and Green" event, in collaboration with the Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City Ward 4 on Magh 5, 2080. Along with leaders at WPC Nepal, Melissa Moffet's team and various other organization representatives helped clean up our local environment. 

We're grateful to have had the opportunity to coordinate this event, and dedicated to future events that help reduce harm, and make an impact on the global climate crisis! 

Awareness for Child Rights and Child Marriage

WPC has spent many years working diligently to create programming that allows children their right to a childhood. One of our major goals is to ensure that all children are protected from the dangers of child marriages, and are aware of their rights to just be who they are-kids! 

This awareness program helps the children learn about the issues with early child marriage, and how to prevent child marriages advocate for their rights. On Magh 1, 2080 B.S. we hosted one of our many awareness projects to get children adequate access to the skills and tools that can help them change their futures!

Supported by PRICE MINISTRIES Children and Families Shop Together

With the help of Price Ministries, WPC Nepal was able to connect many of our children and families with a resource they desperately need: clothing. Through the donations of Price Ministries and other supporters, we received many clothing donations to put together a free store our children and families could choose clothes from. 

A huge thank you to Melissa and her students who helped set up the event to deliver adequate clothing to our children and families! With these donations, we were able to connect over 100 people with the clothing that they need to continue to stay warm during the cold winter months! 

WPC Nepal celebrated at the Balkumari Party Palace!

We are happy to celebrate the past year, and the growing future family of WPC! This year, we held the 23rd Annual General Assembly & Social Audit in the presence of the Honorable Chief Guest Mrs. Kumari Moktan, Bagmati Province, Social Development Minister, and other respected guests. 

During the celebration, we provided an Appreciation Certificate to our first beneficiary, Mrs. Rebika Thapa(Sahane), who went through our vocational driving training in 2001 A.D. Today, she is Nepal's First Heavy Bus Driver from Kathmandu to Dhangadi. It is an honor and a joy to celebrate her success, and the many successes of our women and children as our program expands!