Empowering Women Since 2001
SETU Nepal supports women in vulnerable situations, including those in prison, living with HIV (WLHIV) and survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).
We empower these women by challenging stigma, advocating for their rights, and ensuring they have access to essential public services. We achieve this by providing them with individual empowerment, skills training, healthcare, psychosocial counselling, and education for their children.
What we do
- Economic Empowerment
- Training & Support:
- Organizing residential trainings on economic empowerment, life skills and educational productivity
- Trained 1100+ women in enterprise development, and provided seed money to launch individual and group businesses
- Results
- 66.7% of these women are now running small to medium-sized businesses, which has increased their income and resilience in terms of livelihoods (Comprehensive Study of SETU Nepal‘s Capacitated Women, 2023)
- Market Linkages
- ICT tools are used to connect the women, building stronger networks and providing peer support and community mobilisation
- Education Support
- Educating the children of women with HIV and survivors of GBV is integral for us
- Provided 2000+ children with scholarships, supporting them to access formal education
- Support for 100 children annually—including those living with relatives or in kinship care—with educational assistance, aiming to support them until graduation
- Shelter and Rehabilitation
- Aarati Home
- Residential transit home for children of WLHIV and survivors of GBV
- Currently sheltering 9 children and 2 mothers
- Providing psychosocial & healthcare support, social & life skill training and extra-curricular activities
- Referral Network
- Ensures seamless support for our beneficiaries
- Connecting beneficiaries to other NGOs, hospitals, or shelters
- Community Mobilisation & Advocacy
- Fostering collaboration, offering tailored training programs and advocating for the rights of marginalised communities
THIS is how we work towards creating sustainable and inclusive change at local and national levels.
