Archive for the ‘south asia’ Category
03.06.2025
A Journey from Literacy to Empowerment: Transforming Lives at Sindhuwa Chhathar Jorpati CLRC (Dhankuta READ Center )
“This program is not just about learning to read and write. It is about restoring dignity, fostering independence, and unlocking the limitless potential within each woman. Because when a woman […]
04.23.2024
Redefining Tradition: Women Challenge the Dowry System
A field report from READ Executive Director Sanjana Shrestha, March 2024 “In our community, we do not have money, people are not educated, we cannot speak elegantly, that’s why we […]
12.06.2017
Meet Sunita – Sports, Scholarships, and Choice
For most Nepali women, to even consider wearing shorts is progressive. In our latest video, we see one of our featured READ center members, Sunita (16 years old), sporting her classic […]
10.27.2014
Libraries Reach the Unreached in South Asia
Despite widespread efforts over the past fifteen years to improve education in South Asia – mostly through access to primary education – the ground reality is that hundreds of millions […]
08.20.2014
11 Things You Might Not Know About Global Poverty
1 Inequality between the wealthiest and poorest people on the planet is shocking. Just 85 people have the same amount of money as almost half of the global population. Imagine […]
