Strength TogetHER : Cohort 8

January 15, 2022 Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their stories, experiences and their issues and find solutions within themselves. On January 15th,2022 , the 7th session of Cohort 8 was conducted on the topic “Managing my time” with the active participation of 14 girls which took place via zoom at 4pm. Our moderator was Dolma Lama . She is a teacher and Media coordinator in Brihaspati Vidyasadan. She is also a secretary of the Sports and Environment Commission of the Nepal Olympic. Our session started with the introduction of the moderator and topic. Then our speakers kept forward many stories and instances relating to the topic.   First speaker gave us an insight about her struggles with following up the routine that she sets up and consequently tends to have trouble managing her time. She also told us about her

December 4,2021 Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their stories, experiences and their issues and find solutions within themselves. On December 4th,2021 , the 6th session of Cohort 8 was conducted on the topic “Overthinking ” with the active participation of 12 girls which took place via zoom at 12pm. Our moderator was Rosy Karna. She completed her undergraduate and master's in biology at Stanford University, California, USA. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology at the PGSP Stanford Psy.D. Consortium Program. As a part of the clinical training, she is currently doing her practicum at the community-based mental health clinic, Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC).   Our session started with the introduction of the moderator and topic. Then our speakers kept forward many stories

November 20, 2021   Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their stories, experiences and their issues and find solutions within themselves.   On November 20,2021 , the 5th session of Cohort 8 was conducted on the topic “Our Stories On Harassment” with the active participation of 11 girls which took place via zoom at 4:00 pm. Our moderator was Sadikshya Maharjan. She is currently in her final year of BA.LLB & in addition to that she had worked as a research fellow for UNDP- Parliament Support Project and had also participated in Asia Pacific Youth Internet  Governance Forum 2021.   Our session started with the introduction of the moderator and topic. Then our speakers kept forward many stories and instances relating to the topic.   1. Our first speaker told us about the different kinds of harassment and also kept forw

2nd October 2021. Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their views, opinions, perspectives, experiences, their issues and find solutions to them. The fourth session of Cohort8 was conducted on the topic " Festival ft.Period "with the active participation of girls which took place via zoom at 4:00 pm. Our moderator was Simran Khatri. She has been working in the field of development as a Development Studies student, intending to raise awareness. She is a member of Hattihatti, Global Peace Women. She is currently employed as a freelance writer.  Based on our topic, we discussed periods, about the smallest of the smallest things that make our period's time harder. With no delay in  the sequel, we heard the experiences that our participants had to share : Our first speaker told us that she is usually free duri

August 15, 2021 Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their stories, experiences and their issues and find solutions within themselves. On August 15th,2021, the 3rd session of Cohort 8 was conducted on the topic "Physical Insecurities” with the active participation of 21 girls which took place via zoom at 5:30 pm. Our moderator was Brigid Baba Shrestha. She is working as Speech-To-Text-Interpreter/Captioner for Hard of Hearing group of persons with disabilities. She is also a freelance content writer. Our session started with a short introduction about  Strength TogetHER by Aahana Dhakal. As our topic was “Physical Insecurities” we discussed the things that make us feel insecure about our body, about the smallest of the smallest things that make us hate our body sometimes. 1.Our first speaker told us about her insec

July 24th,2021. Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their views, opinions, perspectives, experiences, their issues and find solutions to them. On July 24th,2021, the 2nd session of Cohort 8 was conducted on the topic "My little happiness "with the active participation of 16  girls which took place via zoom at 5:30 pm. Our moderator was Anjila  Pokhrel but she couldn't join the session because of some unfavorable circumstances. So two members from Lokopakar (Prastuti Bhattarai and Samikshya Aryal ) joined us as our moderators.  As our topic was “My little happiness “we discussed the little things that make us happy, about the smallest of the smallest things that make us smile.  1.Our first speaker shared her story about her little happiness. She explained she found her happiness in every little thing like