Providing Access to Credit in Southern Nepal
Access to Credit 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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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
This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.
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 (http://www.workofwomen.org/)
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
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Project Sponsor
Organization
World Neighbors South Asia
P.O Box 916
Kathmandu,
Nepal
Nepal
011 977-1-546688
http://www.wn.org/FAQ.asp
World Neighbors South Asia's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Strengthening Women's Status and Health in Nepal |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Nepal
and can also be found under 
Microfinance.
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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 1, 2004
Latest Update from the Field
Bindamaya Bhujel
By World Neighbors - World Neighbors, June 04, 2007 05:02 PM
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