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On the international front, the Warkworth BPW chapter provides yearly support to the Nepal Literacy Fund.
Chapter president Sally Smith says this has enabled many women to not only become literate, but also computer literate. The programme was founded in Kathmandu in 1994 and started by training women in food processing, mushroom growing, organic compost-making and waste management. Literacy, sewing and tailoring, sales techniques and accounting are also included.
Sally says that although some of the projects are small in terms of beneficiaries, over the years thousands of women have benefited from the skills learned and the income-generating activities they have embarked on.
“It has given them not only an income, but also higher self-esteem and a happier family life,” she says.
Sally added that the International Federation for BPW, through its members and the BPW Chapters in Nepal, also contributed to the building of 49 new houses after the Nepal earthquake.
