- Empowering Vulnerable People in Makwanpur:
There are 15 Groups in each group 25 members Learning sessions are conducted about adulthood, creativeness, success and carrier development along with the risk of trafficking. Safeguarding issues and protection used to informed and discussed in the sessions.
- Adolescence girls group skill supports on trafficking issues; domestic violence, gender equity, employment and family development/ Group learning sessions (15 groups) at Manahari 3,4,5, 6
- Orientation to school children clubs/students on AHT and safeguarding
- Vulnerable Adolescence educational support (Manahari)
375 adolescence girls received awareness on AHT, child marriage, their dreams and future plans.
Trafficking Awareness: The girls’ groups received training on recognizing trafficking risks andunderstanding the tactics used by traffickers. This knowledge empowered them to protect themselves and their peers.
Girls were educated about domestic violence, its signs, and ways to seek help. This equipped them to recognize unhealthy relationships and promote safer environments.
Through discussions and activities, 357 girls learned about gender equality, challenging stereotypes, and advocating for their rights within their families and communities.
This wasfocused on strengthening family relationships, fostering open communication, and promoting healthy dynamics within households. 375 adolescent girls received education on family development.
- Anti-Human Trafficking (AHT) Awareness: 360 Students were introduced to the concept of human trafficking, its forms, and the importance of staying vigilant against potential threats.
- Safeguarding Education: 360 Children learned about personal safety measures, including identifying unsafe situations, avoiding risks, and seeking help when needed.
- Educational Assistance: 10 vulnerable adolescents received support to continue their education. This aid could include financial assistance for school fees, supplies, uniforms, and other educational needs.
In the last three years, there were a total of 9 child marriages that had happened to be disclosed publicly from Manahari 3,4, 5 and 6. Among them ETSC work out to stop 8 child marriage cases in coordination with local government representatives, child clubs, Ilaka police office and other like mind organizations.
Case studies / Success stories:
- ETSC Nepal’s COVID Response Project for Adolescence and Children
- Support 200 adolescence and women by providing the menstrual hygiene package (Pad, soap and Mask)
- Aware the Adolescence and Women about Menstrual, personal hygiene and safeguarding.
- ETSC Nepal has provided supports to community of Manahari ward no. 4 by menstrual pads, soaps and masks for 152 number of adolescence and 154 numbers of women. Medical items were get at a lower price than planned budget hence, we are able to reach more people.
- Aware the Adolescence and Women about Menstrual, personal hygiene and safeguarding was done by ETSC Nepal’s community mobilizers in Manahari ward no.4. There were 306 women including adolescence girls were benefited from the COVID_19 Response Project with in this 2 months i.e. May and June.
Improved Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM): Access to menstrual kits and proper education on menstrual hygiene have led to improved MHM practices among adolescent girls. They will be better equipped to manage their periods hygienically and comfortably, allowing them to participate fully in their daily activities without interruptions or discomfort.
Enhanced Self-Confidence: Adequate menstrual hygiene supplies and awareness messages can contribute to increased self-confidence among adolescent girls. They won’t have to worry about leakage or stigma associated with periods, which can positively impact their overall self-esteem and self-image.
Reduced Stigma and Taboos: The protection awareness messages can help dispel myths and reduce the stigma and taboos around menstruation and personal hygiene. This shift in societal attitudes can lead to a more open and supportive environment for girls to discuss their needs and challenges related to menstruation.
Community Engagement: As adolescent girls become more knowledgeable about their hygiene and reproductive health, they may become advocates for change within their families and communities. Long-Term Behavior Change: By targeting both menstrual hygiene management and protection awareness has initiate positive behavior changes that extend beyond adolescence. Girls who learn the importance of hygiene and protection early on are more likely to carry these practices into adulthood. In essence, the project’s outputs can encompass improved menstrual hygiene, increased educational opportunities, reduced stigma, empowered girls, healthier communities, and a foundation for positive change that extends well into the future.
Lesson learned by ETSC Nepal.
- Targeting only child and focused not to adjunct issues surround a child will have less impacts from the initiative.
- Child/Adolescence group comprised along with Women and Men’s support group will have holistic impacts, Because of mothers used to be nearest friends to share and fathers provide understanding to make a decision together things work out for better.
- NGO’s efforts have had great influence in terms of peoples’ awareness and changed behaviors though there used to be grave risk for intercepted and rescued people might go again in same ditch of evils trap. It happens at the point if there are no support systems further.
- Legal Authority approaches; there are legal provisions with different level of agencies functional duties even though common people couldn’t access the rightful services.
- Realistic Intervention; Many of works that are done by government and non government sectors have build details and data’s only without reaching properly in to the inner layer of subject. To build ownership of the target group needs not merely participatory method but to involve in work process genuinely diligently. Ownership should be relatively adopted by support team themselves by all means and ways first and than comes this for communities.
- A realistic obstacle for development of a child or adolescence is not to have enough programs for child. But the absence of empowerment of livelihood as a basic component that enables parents to use learnings.
- Working in the community development sector is itself a challenging work especially to those most vulnerable section of people. ETSC used to inform and orient its program goal and objectives along with the expected changed in favor of target people, though it is obviously found that participants/beneficiary interest is more focused on livelihood support.
- Nepal is traditionally patriarchal society; traditional thoughts are persisting till todays. Many parents lack literacy for children up bringing. ETSC found those families father and mother both behaves to their children very harshly. Children used to be curious as well anxious for every thing those exist around them, they used to go, take use, examine and observe in this course they made a lot of mistake even serious occurrences would come up some times. If parents’ goanna scold or punish children in every thing in each time than there will be no more question for child development.
