These past few months myself and 8 other volunteers have
been working hard to create Peace Corps Nepal’s first ever girl’s empowerment
camp – GLOW (Girls Leading Our World). GLOW is a girl’s empowerment camp that
almost every Peace Corps country worldwide facilitates; we are working hard to
start Nepal’s very own GLOW camp. Our GLOW camp will be a 5-day camp in
Pokhara, a larger city in close proximity to all of our villages. Participants
are selectively-chosen highly motivated girls – ages 13-17 – from rural
villages in mid-western Nepal. This eye-opening experience will be packed with
practical, informative trainings on health, gender roles, business, budgeting,
empowerment and life skills. The camp will be filled with fun, high impact
activities to inspire creative and critical thinking. Our camp will consist of
36 adolescent girls – four from each volunteer’s villages – along with one
chaperone from each of our villages. These girls, along with their chaperone,
will return to their villages equipped with the knowledge and skills to lead
youth groups and inform their peers about current and relevant issues affecting
women in Nepal.
In order to make this camp happen, we need support to fund the entire five-day camp. We have set up a donation page through Peace Corps’ website to solicit donations from friends and family. We need a total of $4,120 in order for Peace Corps Nepal’s GLOW camp to take place. A donation of any amount would be greatly appreciated.
Our GLOW camp is scheduled for mid July and therefore we only have 2 weeks to meet our funding goal and receive the funds to ensure the camp can take place in July. Any support, monetary or simply spreading the word and forwarding this blog is deeply appreciated!
Please follow the link to make a donation, also please ensure that you are donating to the correct GLOW project.
If you have any questions or want to learn more about our project, feel free to get in contact with me!
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