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Visible Impact in Kharanitar, Nepal

By: Medha Sharma, Accountability Lab Accountapreneur and President of Visible Impact Meet Rita Rita is 16 years old and black belt in Taekwondo. She discovered her passion for Taekwondo when she was 8 years old. Almost 2 years ago, an earthquake destroyed her village – Kharanitar of Nepal's Nuwakot district - and Rita and the other girls in her village had to give up their Taekwondo lessons.  Since last year, Visible Impact has been working to unleash the social and economic leadership of 15 adolescent girls of her village, by providing them mentorship on a variety of topics, including academic support, support for co-curricular activities, [...]

2016-12-27T00:00:00+00:0027th December 2016|

Nuwakot: Land Of Dreamers And Healers

By: Brittany Wait, Visual Storytelling Fellow in Nepal Walk with me... ...through Kharanitar, a rural village in the Nuwakot district of Nepal still rebuilding after the 2015 earthquakes. We spent two days working alongside Nepali nonprofit, Visible Impact, educating 15 local girls on accountability and activism. One of our accountapreneurs, Medha Sharma, its president and CEO, and her associate Sharmila Acharya, took Samita and I along with them. After an eventful ride, in which got stuck in mud and had to move boulders from a recent flash flood out of the way, we arrived. There, we met our colleague Suresh Chand and [...]

2016-09-09T00:00:00+00:009th September 2016|
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