{"id":4709,"date":"2020-01-28T21:39:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2020-05-18T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:42:15","slug":"empowering-girls-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/2020\/01\/28\/empowering-girls-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Girls in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Empowering Girls in Nepal<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">President Helen hosted a fabulous curry evening to raise funds for the new Soroptimists International Great Britain and Northern Ireland International Federation charity \u2013 ChoraChori, empowering girls in Nepal. Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empoweringgirlsinnepal.org\/\">Empowering Girls in Nepal website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We all brought a contribution of delicious curry or accompaniments to share and made a donation to the charity. We raised \u00a3160, and members are enthusiastic to continue support to this cause. The Founder of the Charity, Philip Holmes, came to our dinner meeting on 28th January to talk to us about the charity and other ways we can help \u2013 here is an account by one of our members:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/Chora-Chori-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4508\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/Chora-Chori-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/Chora-Chori-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/Chora-Chori-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Blog from Dorothea Ross-Simpson<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">On 28 January, our club welcomed Philip Holmes, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empoweringgirlsinnepal.org\/\">ChoraChori<\/a> to tell us about the work of the charity and what the Soroptimist support for some key projects the\u00a0 charity is working on can help achieve for girls and young women in Nepal over the coming three years.\u00a0 ChoraChori was chosen as the SIGBI Federation charity for 2019-2022 and our club had already started fundraising for ChoraChori at the end of last year, after hearing Philip speak at the SIGBI Annual Conference in Bournemouth. ChoraChori\u2019s vision is to be at the forefront of a national and international network that confronts violence against Nepalese children and addresses its consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">UK registered charity ChoraChori (the Nepali word for \u2018children\u2019) is leading the fight in Nepal, one of the world\u2019s poorest countries, against rape and the stigma attached to rape. Sadly, reported cases of rape have quadrupled in the last ten years. But ChoraChori supports traumatised survivors and their families and brings rapists to justice. To this end, they have recently successfully raised funds to create a residential facility in Nepal for girls who have been raped, to educate and train them to enable them to return to society. Philip explained how ChoraChori in UK raises the funds and provides the expertise needed to allow ChoraChori-Nepal to operate as a self-sufficient social welfare organisation. UK administrative costs are kept to an absolute minimum and the Nepal operation has a small core staff at its Head Office in Kathmandu, supporting its amazing and courageous field staff, child rescue teams and its refuge\/ rehabilitation operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Philip\u2019s presentation was at times funny, and at times very affecting and sobering. Hearing his background information about Nepalese society and the particular challenges there to the wellbeing and safety of women and girls was distressing. But ChoraChori has been working tirelessly, with a group of dedicated and inspirational staff, to rescue, rehabilitate, reintegrate and empower young girls who have been victims of rape, trafficking or abuse. Some of the life stories which Philip shared with us were testament to the transformational and life changing long term effects of the work carried out by the charity\u2019s staff and volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Club members and visitor alike were struck by Philip\u2019s story, the scale of the challenges faced by young girls and women in Nepal and by the wonderful work undertaken by ChoraChori. There were many questions and a lively discussion among members but most of all, we all wanted to know what more we could do to support the work of the charity. Fundraising is the obvious way and in her vote of thanks, the club officer thanked Philip for his relentless work to help Nepalese children and pledged support from the club because the presentation made clear once again how strongly the aims of the charity resonates with what our own club stands for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Because of the interest in the work carried out by ChoraChori, our meeting was extremely well attended with several visitors from sister clubs in the region who were also keen to find out more about this charity.\u00a0 Members gave generously to the raffle on the night.\u00a0 In ChoriChora terms, each \u00a3100 raised means school tuition fees for one girl for one year, or materials for one month for the tailoring course, or medicine for high risk illnesses for one week for one girl. So well done to all clubs represented on the night!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empowering Girls in Nepal President Helen hosted a fabulous curry evening to raise funds for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-space"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Empowering Girls in Nepal | News | Blog | Events | SI Nantwich and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Nantwich and District : Blog &amp; News : Empowering Girls in Nepal : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Nantwich and District . 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