{"id":4983,"date":"2020-08-16T17:29:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/grange-over-sands\/?page_id=4983"},"modified":"2024-03-14T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:53:11","slug":"empowering-girls-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/grange-over-sands\/what-we-do\/empowering-girls-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Girls in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/what-we-do\/our-projects\/girlsinnepal\/\">\u201cEmpowering Girls in Nepal\u201d<\/a> is a 3 year project created in partnership between \u00a0Soroptimist International\u00a0 Great Britain and Ireland ( SIGBI) and Chora Chori and our club as part of SIGBI is fundraising.<\/h2>\n<p>The vision of the project is to empower, educate and enable disadvantaged, victimised and vulnerable girls in Nepal to become independent and self-sufficient role models to other girls in Nepal and become community leaders of the future.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, the goal over the next 3 years is to raise at least \u00a3105,000 which would be used to provide education\u00a0 vocational training to (at least) 45 girls each year, &amp; to create a 30-bed safe and secure halfway house allowing the girls to rebuild their lives and give them a positive future.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the girls are fleeing abusive situations, trafficking and rape.<\/p>\n<p>The 30 bedded hostel now with 8 residents opened in December 2019. 12 girls are in formal education and 8 girls in non-formal education. 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