Program: Empowerment program for women victims of rape and other forms of gender based violence (GBV)-Kenya, Africa. Report: Qaabata Boru Contribution: Lakshmi Prasad Dhakal Sponsor: Punya Foundation Implementing Partner: KANERE media, Refugee Free Press, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Turkana District, Kenya Venue: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kakuma, Kenya. Date: 20th October 2012 Background: Kakuma refugee camp located in Kenya,...

Implementing Partner : Bhutan Media Society (BMS) Project Coordinator : Tilak Niroula, BMS Sponsor: Punya Foundation Programme date/venue : 13 Nov 2012, Bhutanese Refugee Camp, Jhapa, Nepal  Background: With an aim of empowering women in the Bhutanese refugee camps of Jhapa and Morang districts in eastern parts of Nepal, the Punya Foundation conducted its first empowerment...

12 Women in Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal are on fast unto death since last 9 days. Some of them are breast-feeding women. A Bhutanese charity organization, the Punya Foundation, hereby appeals Nepal Government, UNHCR and International Community to assist to bring an end to this. About 16% of Bhutan’s population had to flee their...

Location: Bhutanese Refugee Camp, Jhapa, Nepal Implementing Partner: BRAIN Sponsor: the Punya Foundation Assistance: Jyoty Bastralaya, Western union money transfer Nature and objective of programme: The program is aimed to honour “single ladies” who had been engaged in service to the refugee community for more than a decade. At the same time, the program is intended to empower the identified...

In collaboration with BRAIN, an empowerment program is organised in Nepal. The program is targetted to uplift socicially isolated “single women”. To give moral support, to recognise and to encourage other single women’s active participation in society, 5 single women were awarded amidst a program. Cultural activities, awareness raising dramas against violence were performed. Social...