Strength TogetHER 10-Session 1

 


5th December,2020.

Strength TogetHER is a virtual session organized by a youth development organization, Lokopakar. It is a safe space where we girls come together, embrace our differences, share stories of our own and some of visual and heard stories and aspire to learn as we go through. 

As of today, Strength TogetHER have already been able to successfully open 11 cohorts in this short period of time with a large coverage of area within and beyond Nepal connecting us Nepali girls. I feel so connected to this platform and I’m thrilled to coordinate a cohort by myself. I represent Cohort 10 and we started by doing the Introductory Session on 5th December 2020.

Our session started with formally introducing Lokopakar and Strength TogetHER by one of our co-founders, Barsha Tamang and Prastuti Bhattarai followed by our experience sharing from Aastha, coordinator  2, Binisha, coordinator cohort 6 and me as a participant of previous cohorts. We discussed about the process of the session and how it goes and the moderator who will be helping us in all the sessions. Then we moved to hearing from our participants. We had a fun session interacting and getting to know each other. We got to know how everyone came to know about the session and what pushed them into joining alongside addressing the expectations of the participants from the session.

We also had fun playing an icebreaker game where we were supposed to share the story behind a recent photo in our gallery. That really gave us a perception of how beautiful is it to hear about moments captured without the genuine thought of its pureness and later embracing it. 

With the successful conduction of the introductory session, I, Samikshya Aryal, cohort coordinator look forward to many more interactive sessions ahead. I am very much excited to meet new girls and share an important time of my life, learning through sharing and growing throughout the journey. I’m sure this is going to be an amazing time and a very productive platform for everyone joining.


Written by -Samikshya Aryal (Coordinator, Cohort10)

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