1)Awareness of Vitamin A Program:
The awareness program was target to the
household women basically involve in vendor
activities. They were informed about the
food and vegetable available in our garden
can give a lot of health benefits. And
some major vegetable providing mark able
impact were also dealt like for example
they were told that lemon gives vitamin
E which makes eye sight sharp and memory
strong and also helps to prevent from
mal nutrition.
2) Women Literacy Program:
This program was focused to the women
basically and women of every age group
were there .An active participation of
all class of women was seen and age groups
of 14-60 were involved. Twenty women were
made literate in six months time and this
program was held in ward number 3, Janata
school of Biratnagar sub metropolitan
city.
3) An interactional program:
We were able to conduct awareness program
related to girl trafficking in Biratnagar
itself in which the targeted groups were
teens. The students from some schools
were invited and were awaken about the
bad consequences that trafficking brings
and also were taught how the girls are
trapped by the trafficker.
Not only this as an interactional program
on women empowerment was also conducted
on the occasion of International Women
Year
4) Parents Awareness Program:
This program was very beneficial and a
major active participation was seen during
the program. In this program parents were
taught about how to handle their kids
from their birth itself. Firstly the care
while they are in womb was taught and
later sequentially all the phases of the
child’s lifecycle was dealt with.
5) Funds Raising Program:
In this program through a stall in Koshi
Industrial Fair held in Biratnagar the
organization tried to raise funds by selling
confectionary product. BPW-Biratnagar
raises its funds to support various women
development programs by organizing exhibition
sales, fare and charity shows.
6) Day care centre:
The organization is conducting a day care
center at Balwai, Biratnagar ward number
11 for children of 3 to 5 years of age.
These children are of those working mothers
who belong to the labors class of society.
This was established in 1999 and is still
in operation.
BPW-Biratnagar distributed food supportive
to old people in old age homes. Also,
school uniforms and slippers were often
distributed among children of day care
centre.
7) Tailoring Training class:
BPW-Biratnagar started a tailoring training
class at godhuli marg in 2005. The program
was very successful and there were a lot
of women willing to join but due to our
limitation we were able to enroll only
30 women and they are benefited from these
training and some of them had already
opened their own shops too.
8) Poverty elevation through
socio-economic Activities:
BPW-Biratnagar conducted survey on poverty
reduction through socio economic activities
in April-2007 in the 2 VDCs namely Baijyanathpur
and Kathari. The baseline survey was done
in ward number 1&2 of katahari and
ward number 2, 3&4 of Baijyanathpur.
As the survey showed lower women literacy
percent, two sites in katahari and the
other two in baijyanathpur were selected
for the program. Two facilitator for each
ward were seen chosen for TOT (training
of teacher) class who trained women for
literacy. During the program, the same
women were first provided five day health
awareness training and then the other
for social awareness and self-esteem.
Later, the targeted women received skill
development training where they learnt
to make incense sticks (dhoop) and candles.
