Winnie, who lives in Seaford, got in contact with WWR out of the blue and after some prayer and thoughtful questioning travelled to Kathmandu last month to spend two weeks with our ladies and inspired them to make these 100 garments. Please get in contact if you would like to buy them, sell them on our behalf or would even like to travel to Nepal to set up your own business with our ladies!
We are pleased to be able to take care of a lady with HIV at our Grace Women’s Home – her former husband transmitted the disease to her. She moved in last week and we provided all the ladies at the home training and education about HIV/Aids and how best to take care of her. Here they are discussing the issues.
We have great news to share with you; doesn’t this look like a beautiful place to live?!
We have been thinking of setting up a home to house our women for a while, and this centre is available for us to rent. It is at the edge of Kathmandu Valley in an unspoilt and unpolluted location.
The benefits:
20 women could live there and provide company to each other; we hope to provide their meals too. Unlike the rooms that they currently live in, there is running water and we will install a
back-up electricity source so that they won’t be plunged into darkness during the many powercuts. The building is far safer in an earthquake than the delapidated buildings the women live in in heavily built up Kathmandu.
It costs £650 per month and so we are looking for 65 people to give £10 per month to make it possible.
Please consider if you can help us, as you know we are only a small charity. Please e-mail Anna at anna@wwr-nepal.org if you can help.
Not only will your money be used to help to provide our women with a home, since we are renting the property from another charity called Restless Development (www.restlessdevelopment.org) they will use the funds we give them to assist them in their youth projects across Nepal – it’s a charity Two For One!
We are very grateful to the Portsmouth News for printing a second fuller article about the work of Women Without Roofs, please take the time to read it on their website:
Renee, one of the trustees in is Kathmandu right now, she writes:
I have visited ladies from WWR this week. Some stories are real success stories but others remain heartbreaking. We have a new deaf lady (62) who is all alone, having had leprosy and being rejected because of this by her brothers. Her “friends” in life are her hens and ducks which roam freely in her room, including her bed. One hen was sick; she walked for two hours to get hen medicine. On leaving her room she gave us 11 eggs. We did not want to take them, but not to would offend her. The lady has nothing in life and yet she gave us all that she had. We had been given the opportunity to be life- givers to her by taking food and WWR have provided a hearing aid for her. We hope we have been able to put our faith into action. We will continue to do what we can for her, but it was a very humbling and distressing visit for us.
Please pray for Renee, and all the women we support, that we can determine how best to help them.
WWR has been recognised for its work in Nepal by the Portsmouth News newspaper. Anna, one of the trustees, won a t-shirt and appeared in the newspaper with a great article all about our work. Thank you Portsmouth!
We would like to improve our shop premises in Kathmandu, Nepal and the money would allow us to do this. Women who have attended our sewing and literacy course work in the shop and it enables them to earn a living and provide for their families. There are lots of charities on the website, but our name is next to this photo.
There have been some changes to our website and ‘The Team’ page is new. We hope you find the changes useful and they give you a good idea about what WWR does.
WWR sends its congratulations to Equal Access Nepal, the makers of radio program Samajhdari, that has just won the One World Media Special Award. The program highlights the issues vulnerable women, just like those we help, face in Nepal.
Samajhdari (meaning “Mutual Understanding”) is a 30-minute weekly radio programme in Nepal that regularly reaches up to one million listeners. It aims to cover the correlation between violence against women and HIV/AIDS from the listener’s point of view, providing discussion and advice on situations that affect real people – and particularly women.
Every programme begins with a real dilemma that a listener has faced. These dilemmas have much to do with both violence against women and HIV/AIDS – such as, “I am a sex worker and if I say no to my clients’ demands, they beat me. What can I do?” or “My husband forces me to have sex when I don’t want to. How can I say no?”
The presenter then brings in a range of voices to comment on the issue, including other listeners and experts from the field. One pioneering element is the twelve community reporters who go into rural areas and collect much of the content that is then used for broadcast. These women are all survivors of violence, and this gives them an unrivalled insight into the dilemmas being discussed.
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