About the short History of Rural Women’s Network Nepal.
Written By: Uma Ghimire
Nepal is developing country where are multi cultural, multi languages and multi cast system. It is located in South Asia between the largest country China and India. Covering with the land of 1,47,181 aq.km and 2,31,51,423 population, all of them 14% lives in urban and 86% lives in rural area of Nepal. In reality, women literacy rate is less than 30 %. In Nepal there is not good condition of children and women. Our society is also affected by different problems and totally back in the case of women education. Anyhow there are few educated women in our locality and we use to talk about women justice, equality and rights to build their own identity. I hope, you know about the internal war of Nepal between Maoist and government in which about thirteen thousand of people were killed, twelve thousand became widow, and thirty thousand of children became orphans about 1 million children affected by the 10 years war directly and indirectly.
Looking condition of those children and widows. We can’t sit peacefully than we discuss in our societies with educated women to do something for women and children from our side. We gather from different society of our district, from different community women we discuss to make the executive committee, all of the women we make a nine member executive committee. I (Uma Ghimire) became president from the first meeting. After then we registered this organization in district administration office Sindhuli and different government and non- government office in Nepal. We open our central office at Hatpate- 8, Sindhuli.
At the beginning time society and even women were against us. But we didn’t lose our hope. So that we can move strongly towards our target and did all the possible work that we could do with source and resources that we had. Now a-days many uneducated women and people are also supporting and encouraging us. This is how we established our organization collecting even a penny and a rupee for about years from everyone interested people in our society to fight against men dominated society created by our own uneducated brother and sisters.
Now we are not limited in our district only. We are going to open our central networking office in mid Kathmandu (The capital city of Nepal). We are networking all the women rights organization in different district of Nepal. I hope in near future we will connect all the women and child rights organization in different local level all over the nation.
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