Strength TogetHER : Cohort 10

Jan 23, 2021. Strength togetHER is a safe virtual space where girls from different backgrounds come together and share their stories. We believe in rising ourselves by lifting up others. We walk with the motto of “girls supporting girl”.  Addressing the rising concern of mental health issues, we talked about “ Peace of Mind ” on our fourth session. We shared our stories and experience relevant to the topic and talked it out. It became an interactive session with an amazing moderator. Our session was moderated by Shailaja Kharel who is currently pursuing her masters in sociology. Having completed her Bachelor’s degree in social science from National College affiliated to Kathmandu University, she has worked on her own project called “Developing psychological competence” and is an active counselor as well. She is an analytical thinker who believes in understanding the root of mental health issues through socio-psychological perspective. The former President of ‘Rotaract Club of Kathm...

  5th Jan 2021 With the motto of ‘girl supporting girls’, LOKOPAKAR, a youth development organization is currently running “Strength TogetHER”, a safe virtual space where girls from different backgrounds come together and share their stories. We believe in rising ourselves by lifting up others.  The third session of cohort ten took place on a chilly evening on 5th of January 2021 which extended up to two hours of interaction. Our topic of discussion was “A Time I Felt Low”. We had a very productive session with strong input from speakers and feedbacks form the moderator. We had Miss Kavya Biswokarma as our moderator, a fresh graduate of Bachelors of Social Sciences. Experienced with mentoring, she have now been emceeing for over 14 years. Previously associated with Maiti Nepal as translator, she has also worked as a junior journalist at The Republica. She is a self-trained dancer who have won many competitions and choreographed for a programme recently for a school named Bloom...

19 th December, 2020. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are” With the motto of ‘girl supporting girls’, LOKOPAKAR, a youth development organization is currently running “Strength togetHER”, a safe virtual space where girls from different backgrounds come together and share their stories. We believe in rising ourselves by lifting up others.  After the successful introductory session, we moved to our second session on 19 th of December 2020 that went on with active participation and amazing interaction on the topic ‘Imperfectly Perfect’.  Our session was moderated by Simran Khatri, a fresh graduate of Bachelors in Development Studies who has been working in the field of development as she aspires to spread awareness among women and children in different issues such as Menstrual Hygiene Management, Consent, and Leadership etc. through Global Peace Foundation Nepal. She is also a member of Global Peace Women (GPW), Nepal and Hatti Hatti Nepal. Our topic of coverage revolved mo...

  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 5 th  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 discu...