Strength TogetHER : Cohort 8

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 ...

  7th July,2021. “Be a women who can support other women, provide compliments to each other, give words of encouragement & empower each other.” LOKOPAKAR is an organization which aims for youth development.  Lokopakar has a variety of programs going on among which is Strength TogetHER. Strength TogetHER is one of the programs which is created for girls and young women of different mindset and background. Lokopakar provides us a virtual safe place where we can share an emotional bond, feelings and our stories.       With the motive of peer-to-peer support and encouraging each other’s stories, we came up with a new Cohort (Cohort-8) of Strength TogetHER. On July 7 th , we had our first session i.e Introductory Session with the active participation of 20+ members which took place via zoom at 4:00 pm.  Firstly, our participants were given brief knowledge about Lokopakar and the number of programs running under the organization.Team members of...