March 15, 2020
The following is a piece written by K, a 9 class student at Kopila Valley School.
None of us could have imagined our lives without brave, courageous, inspiring women. Women who had to tackle hardships at times, but even now they not treated equally. Wait? What? It’s 2020 now but people still haven’t understood the importance of women. Because how would those women feel right now? That the same issue has been going on for centuries. It’s a shame. There are no equal opportunities for a girl to feel comforted, where she is forbidden to go to school and is kept in the four walls of her dwelling doing housework activities. Even she longs to convince her parents, she has no other choice. She is forced to do whatever she is told to and humiliation and embarrassment arise in her but she is accustomed to it and tolerates it.
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March 08, 2018
In honor of International Women's Day, our Girls' Club worked hard alongside our Health and Wellness Administrator, Meelan, to organize our 4th annual Race for Equality. The race was initially inspired by our friends at She's the First. Girls' Club spent many hours the week leading up to the race planning the day and recruiting runners. They even visited our new school campus construction site to campaign for the run! More than 200 students and staff signed up to run.
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February 17, 2017
For International Women's Day, we decided to revisit an activity we first tried in 2015. We're going to celebrate women by running in their honor, and we encourage you to join us! Here in Surkhet, we will be writing the reasons why we are running on a piece of paper - for gender equality, for better access to education, for the ending of child marriage, to diminish the wage gap, to stop domestic violence and for all over the other hopes we have for women and girls all over the world.
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