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Donation focus: Women and Children<br />

One of ROKPA’s main goals is the improvement<br />

of the social standing of girls and women.<br />

In Nepalese and Tibetan villages, girls have no<br />

opportunity to obtain an education – they<br />

have to work in the house and in the fields<br />

from a very early age. Way too early – often<br />

when they are still children - they are married<br />

off and stay financially dependent on their<br />

partner, who then often leaves them with a<br />

number of children to care for. A substantial<br />

number of these women end up living on the<br />

streets where they and their children try<br />

to survive by begging and working odd jobs.<br />

To give these woman and children a better<br />

future, ROKPA supports a number of projects<br />

for women and helps individual women in<br />

emergency situations without bureaucracy.<br />

Example: Padma / Women’s<br />

Workshop in Kathmandu<br />

Padma was married off when she<br />

was 16. Five years later, she fled from<br />

her husband as she was repeatedly physically abused.<br />

After years of suffering, during which time she and her<br />

children also had to live on the street, she found her way<br />

to ROKPA where she was hired as a seamstress. Today,<br />

she works as the Manager of the Women’s Workshop.<br />

Project: ROKPA Women’s Workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal.<br />

Goal: The purpose of the Women’s Workshop is the<br />

social reintegration of single poor mothers by providing<br />

training to become a seamstress and offering them a<br />

job that pays fair wages.<br />

Budget 2012: CHF 20’030*<br />

* Through the sale of the products, this project is<br />

almost financially independent.<br />

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