Providing Access to Credit in Southern Nepal
Summary
To assist 13,350 people in low-caste communities to organize, through self-help groups; increase their social and economic status; reduce gender restrictions; improve their health and education.
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Received $3,149 from 20 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Terai region of southern Nepal suffers from dowry, purdah and caste systems. These give low status to poor women and create problems such as wife-beating. Over 75% of women are illiterate. Most girls marry at age 17. Women lack access to family planning and reproductive health services. Over 30% of pregnancies are unwanted. Most women lack income to pay for health services and get into debt.
Activities
Provide training and capital for women's savings and credit groups; increase percentage of women obtaining pre-natal healthcare and assistance at birth; provide couples with access to family planning and reproductive health services.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $3,149
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $16,851
Total Funding Goal: $20,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.wn.org/aboutwn.asp)
- Read More in Quarterly Magazine (http://www.wn.org/news_neighbors.html)
- Details About the Approach to Gender (http://www.wn.org/programs_gender.html)
- More About the Reproductive Health Approach (http://www.wn.org/programs_repro.html)
- World Neighbors Support for Women (World Neighbors Support for Women)
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The savings and credit groups provide a strong opportunity for change, education for women, motivation and hope. The groups come together and focus on long-term, essential needs in their communities, such as the urgent need for safe drinking water.
Project Message
All of our work is to empower marginalized women to meet their basic needs. All our partner organizations use savings and credit and health as tools to mobilize poor women.
- Jagdish Ghimire, area representative for World Neighbors
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Jagdish Ghimire,
Area Representative for World Neighbors
P.O. Box 916
Kathmandu, Nepal
Nepal
011 977 1-546688
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
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World Neighbors South Asia P.O Box 916 Kathmandu, Nepal Nepal 011 977-1-546688 http://www.wn.org/FAQ.asp |
Learn more about World Neighbors South Asia and the project team.
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Nepal
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Nepal, read the Human Development Report on Nepal or the Wikipedia entry for Nepal.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on June 04, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.
Latest Update from the Field
Bindamaya Bhujel
By World Neighbors - World Neighbors, June 04, 2007 05:02 PM
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