We are truly grateful to the growing movement of people who support Womankind Worldwide.
Hi John,
We want to thank you. We are truly grateful to the growing movement of people supporting women's rights through our work.
From reading our blog to sharing a post on social media, your support inspires us to keep going – advocating, strengthening, and funding the global women’s movement.
Backing from people like you enables us to support grassroots women’s rights groups in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda, and Zimbabwe as they strive for progress. A cause I’m sure you are equally committed to.
A born leader
Sita (pictured above) was 13 when she left school and got married in western Nepal. She battled feelings of hopelessness but took solace from meeting other women and girls in her village. Displaying a natural flair for leadership, she became their spokesperson and from there, was encouraged to run in the upcoming elections.
In 2017, Sita was elected as a ward member for her district. But her limited education was holding her back in meaningfully participating. She couldn't represent the women from her community as she had hoped.
"In the ward office, I would just sit at the side. Even while they were working on the budget, I knew nothing. I just did what they told me."
Paving the way to success
In her second term, Sita received training from a project, Participation and Voice for Excluded Women in Nepal (PAVE), facilitated by three Nepalese women's rights organisations and Womankind Worldwide.
"PAVE trained us in many things: like women's empowerment, how to make women more capable, financial training, how to fight for our space in the elections and why political women need entrepreneurship.
Women are suppressed by not having an income, so we need to be very entrepreneurial."
After Sita received training, her political career has gone from strength to strength. She has fought for budget to be put aside for single women in her area. Single women are discriminated against in Nepal.
Donations from our supporters help us to reach more women like Sita. Natural leaders who are ready to make waves in a patriarchal world.
In sharing Sita’s story, we hope you see how one intervention in a woman’s life can have a profound impact. This has a ripple effect that impacts many other women.
With your backing, we can fund programmes that support women driving for change.
As ever, we thank you for your solidarity.
With best wishes,
Hannah Little
Supporter Care Team Womankind Worldwide
Header image: Sita photographed in Kanchanpur in western Nepal (Photo credit: Sajana Shrestha)
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