The student quality circle from Little Angels' School has started a project called "Students Uniting Against Violence" to raise awareness about violence against women and girls in Nepal. They identified harassment and violence against girls in slum areas as a problem and selected Manohara slum in Bhaktapur as their target area. Their plan is to collect donations, provide sanitary and hygiene materials to girls aged 12-16, educate them about self-defense, and conduct awareness campaigns on health, hygiene, gender issues, and violence prevention through activities like picture presentations and poster displays. They expect challenges due to conservative attitudes but hope these small interventions can help.

1.  School Name:
LITTLE ANGELS’ SCHOOL
 Circle Name:
ELEVATE STUDENTS QUALITY
CIRCLE
 Project Title :
Save “Students Uniting Against
Violence”
 Date:
21st January 2013

2. INTRODUCTION
Name of the team : Elevate Students’
Quality Circle
Number of members: 8
Leader: Anshuka Rani Das
Deputy leader: Shiska Raut
Secretary : Aashma Poudel
Members: Asma Pun
Ashmita Ghimire
Nikita Yadav
Esha Rajbhandari
Ayush Thapa
Average Age: 14 Years
Average Class: Class IX
Meeting Time and Duration:
Every Sunday, 1 Hour
Facilitators: Mrs. Sarita Dewan
Mr. Nirajan Adhikari

5. Determination of the
problem
Violence against women is a burning issue in today’s
context even though many women are empowered and
aware now. In Nepal, although, women are leading in
many sectors, there are many girls especially in slum
areas who are facing harassment and violence.

6. How it is determined?
When we read in the newspapers about the cases of women and girls
who are facing the problems of violence, we observed cases of women
and girls violence in one month as recorded in the newspapers. There are
hundreds of such cases unrecorded throughout the country. In this
situation, we decided to do what is possible within our capability and
then started a project named “STUDENTS UNITING AGAINST VIOLENCE
(SAVE)”. In this project we will ask support from the volunteer groups or
various organizations that are working in the field of girls/ women
violence in Nepal. We will collect some money from the students
voluntarily and will use that money to support the orphanage by providing
some support. The support program will be targeting local slums. The
types of cases and their number according to the newspaper from
January 26th to February 27.

7. PAPER NAME CASE TYPE NUMBER OF
CASES
Kantipur Women violence 9
Rape 5
Articles on women violence 5
Kathmandu Post Women violence 6
Rape 18
Protests 9
Articles on women violence 10
Himalayan Times Rape 8
Polygamy 1
Child labour 1
Protest 2
Articles on Women violence 2
The Republica Sexual abuse 1
Articles on women violence 9

8. Problem Area
We have selected a local slum in Bhaktapur ( Manohara slum) which consists of
600 households as our problem area. The target of our project "Students
Uniting Against Violence(SAVE)" is to aware the girls and women of this slum
about violence by interacting with them in a positive manner and through
awareness campaigns. We especially are targeting the teenage girls in this
local slum as they have less security and facilities compared to the slums of
Kathmandu. We are also planning to give some materialistic support to the
slum girls and some health advices.

9. Girl abuse
Man
parents
teachers
peers
seniors
relatives
Methods
schooling
Parenting
Methods
Social
Perception
Environment
Family
conflicts
Peer
pressure
Friend
circle
Machine
TV/radio
computers/
/laptops
gadgets
drugs
books
Films/serials
internet
Material
Media
Patriarchal
society
Orthodoxy

11. Matrix Diagram
Problems Solutions
Sexual Harassment Defining types of sexual harassment .
Domestic Violence Awareness about self - defense.
Gender Based Issues Developing the feeling of equality in society
Accusations of being Witch Superstitious practices should be
discouraged
Sexual Violence
Poor Personnel Hygiene Improving sanitation facilities

13. Violence against women is a burning issue in today’s context even though many women are empowered
and aware now. In Nepal, although, women are leading in many sectors, there are many girls especially
in the slums who are facing harassment and violence.
When we read in the newspapers about the cases of women and girls who are facing the problems of
violence, we found out that there are hundreds of such cases unrecorded throughout the country. In this
situation, we decided to do what is possible within our capability and then we started a project named
“STUDENTS UNITING AGAINST VIOLENCE (SAVE)”. In this project we will ask support from the
volunteering groups or various organizations that are working in the field of girls/ women violence in
Nepal. Our plan is to collect some money from the students of our school voluntarily and use it to
support the girls of the slums by providing them some sanitary materials and giving some hygiene tips.
The support program will be targeting the women teenage girls of the slums aged 12-16 as in the slums ,
the girls are less protected and backward than those of normal society.

14. We intend and expect to extend our support and help the needy and underprivileged
girls between 12-16 years of dwelling at the slum area of manohera bank .as per our
road
map we will be beginning with the distribution of sanitary kits like detol, bandage ,towel,
etc and also reached information on girls . Not only this we target to teach them
defense technique on self defence and for this we plan to take help from our karate gold
–medalist Ms . Manisha rana bhatt .we know that this is not going to be an easy task as
we are anticipating the rough road ahead of us, as the target group belongs to very
conservative and dominated. But definitely this is not going to deter us from our goal.
Moreover with the very limited budget and resources it may not be possible to meet the
expectation completely. But our group feels that if we can arises the fund by donation or
holding a fund raising concert

15. Activity January February March April May
Circle formation
Identification of
problem
Problem
analysis
Planning
Implementation
Final
observation

16. Strategies for Implementation
Picture Presentation on gender related issues and sexual harassment.
Mass and Individual counseling on women empowerment.
Putting up posters in various places of our problem area regarding violence
against women and it’s prevention.
Awareness campaign on women violence.
Awareness campaign on women health and personnel hygiene.
Supplying sanitary napkins and toiletries.

17. Program
What
Why
Where
Who
How
When
Reduce gender
related Issues
Organize various programs
To aware women about
gender based issues
Manohara Slum
(Bhaktapur)
Saturdays, public holidays
Women, especially teenage
girls living in the slum
a. Picture Presentation
b. Mass & individual
counseling
c. Putting up posters
d. Awareness on women
health
e. Awareness on women
violence

19. NAME RESPONSIBILIT
Y
E-MAIL ADDRESS
Anshuka Rani
Das
Blogger Anshukadas.18
@gmail.com
Koteshwor
Shiska Raut Blog Technician shiskaraut@yah
oo.com
Balkhu
Aashma Poudel Reporter cuteaashma@ya
hoo.com
Balkhu
Asma Pun Program Planner Asma_pun08@y
ahoo.com
Bagdole
Aayush Thapa Treasurer Satdobato
Asmita Ghimire Budget Manager ghimireasmita14
@yahoo.com
Khumaltar