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FIGHTING CHHAUPADI, THE TABOO THAT IS LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF YOUNG GIRLS.
2021 - Fifth year of Rato Baltin: A project that restores dignity to Nepalese girls, even during the pandemic.
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With the Rato Baltin Project we empower women, give them an education and a job, and help them to make a better life for themselves.
😷 The 2021 Project incorporates anti-Covid measures to ensure the health of everyone who participates. Before arriving, local women will sew cloth masks for everyone. This is how we work and protect ourselves.
📆 Fifth Year of Rato Baltin (Red Bucket): A program of participatory photography, sex education and menstrual cups to eradicate Chhaupadi in Nepal, a tradition that exiles girls and women while they menstruate, exposing them to a deadly environment.
What can we do with your help? 🙏🏽
- 10€ we can pay a menstrual health kit (With translated books + transportation+teaching cost)
- 60€ can pay a month salary for a mentor to work as social mobiliser against Chhaupadi
- € 80 will help for a month to a widow, giving her the base salary, which can be increased by working in our Happy Women training center.
- 100€ provide one day training of a full class about heath and sex ed.
- 140€ for a month Salary for a local trainer to work against Chhaupadi
- 1960€ for a year salary for a local trainer to work against Chhaupadi
🔴 What's the Problem: Chhaupadi.
In Nepal, placing menstruating girls and women in sheds or huts is a centuries-old tradition called chhaupadi.
During their periods, women are considered impure, dirty, contaminated and bad luck. They can’t touch their husbands, other family members, water sources, fruit trees, or cattle, among a host of other things. They may only eat rice.
The belief that menstruation is impure is so deep-seated that families overlook extreme risks involved in the practice.
Extreme temperatures expose them to health problems including pneumonia, diarrhoea, chest and respiratory tract infection. Every year 3 or 4 women die during this banishment, because of asphyxiation, hypothermia, snakebites or other wild animal attacks, and nobody knows the true numbers of how many are raped.
The practice is supported by community elders, husbands, mothers-in-law, traditional healers, and priests who have a profound influence in the community. Villagers believe that letting menstruating women inside the family house will infuriate the gods, which will have serious consequences for both families and the entire community.
💡Our Solution: The Rato Baltin Project,Sex Education, participatory photography and Menstrual Cups.
The Rato Baltin Project is a Menstrual Health Management and sexual education program that aims to eradicate this practice. 2021 is our fifth year working with community health workers, teachers, political leaders and local NGOs to this end. The Project is for girls, boys, women and their communities. We think that education is the only way to change these deeply held beliefs. With participative photography we invite them to speak about their menstruation, with an important part of the project being the distribution of a healthy and environmentally friendly solution: the menstrual cup.
📍The highlight of this year is that we will do a sex ed workshop for boys only! Let's see if this way respect for women grows !!! ... and that we are setting up a training centre and a small business to help widowed women earn a salary!
🥳 We have already distributed more than 2200 menstrual cups to girls in remote villages. Each girl received a cup and training on how to use it. They are also given a metal bucket (baltin) to have clean water and somewhere to boil the cup.
🎯Our goal is to destigmatize menstruation as a normal biological function, reduce the prevalence of Chhaupadi, and mitigate its consequences. Through these ends, girls and women are also empowered with the confidence to continue to attend school and be active in public spaces.
💜How you can help: Donate, Become a member, Share, Volunteer.
If you want to become a regular donor, or if you have a company that is interested in being a sponsor, your generosity will be reciprocated with regular updates and a mention of the company (logo) on our website.
Please contact us at https://beartsy.org/contact or become a partner at https://beartsy.org/associate
Share this page with your friends on social media, etc.
🙏🏽 Thank you very much from the be artsy team.
Important numbers of Rato Baltin from the beginning:
- Beneficiaries: 27,099
- Menstrual cup users: more than 2,263
- Acceptance of the menstrual cup: 96%
be artsy es una organización sin ánimo de lucro que utiliza la expresión creativa como herramienta de comunicación, transformación social y defensa de los derechos humanos. A través del arte, la educación y el acompañamiento comunitario, impulsa proyectos que permiten a las personas expresarse, participar y generar cambios en su entorno.
Uno de sus proyectos principales es Rato Baltin, que desde 2017 trabaja en el oeste de Nepal para promover la dignidad menstrual, la educación, los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, y la autonomía de mujeres, niñas y adolescentes. El proyecto combina educación menstrual, fotografía participativa, formación comunitaria, apoyo a la continuidad educativa y alternativas económicas lideradas por mujeres.
Rato Baltin no se limita a distribuir copas menstruales: acompaña procesos de cambio en comunidades donde la menstruación todavía está rodeada de tabúes, restricciones y prácticas discriminatorias como el chhaupadi. Con el liderazgo del equipo local en Nepal, be artsy contribuye a que más mujeres y niñas puedan vivir la menstruación con salud, seguridad y dignidad, y avanzar hacia una vida con más oportunidades y capacidad de decisión.
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be artsy és una organització sense ànim de lucre que utilitza l’expressió creativa com a eina de comunicació, transformació social i defensa dels drets humans. A través de l’art, l’educació i l’acompanyament comunitari, impulsa projectes que permeten a les persones expressar-se, participar i generar canvis en el seu entorn.
Un dels seus projectes principals és Rato Baltin, que des de 2017 treballa a l’oest del Nepal per promoure la dignitat menstrual, l’educació, els drets sexuals i reproductius, i l’autonomia de dones, nenes i adolescents. El projecte combina educació menstrual, fotografia participativa, formació comunitària, suport a la continuïtat educativa i alternatives econòmiques liderades per dones.
Rato Baltin no es limita a distribuir copes menstruals: acompanya processos de canvi en comunitats on la menstruació encara està envoltada de tabús, restriccions i pràctiques discriminatòries com el chhaupadi. Amb el lideratge de l’equip local al Nepal, be artsy contribueix a fer possible que més dones i nenes puguin viure la menstruació amb salut, seguretat i dignitat, i avançar cap a una vida amb més oportunitats i capacitat de decisió.
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be artsy is a non-profit organisation that uses creative expression as a tool for communication, social transformation and the defence of human rights. Through art, education and community-based work, it supports projects that enable people to express themselves, participate and create change within their communities.
One of its main projects is Rato Baltin, which has been working in western Nepal since 2017 to promote menstrual dignity, education, sexual and reproductive rights, and the autonomy of women, girls and adolescents. The project combines menstrual education, participatory photography, community training, support for girls’ continued education, and women-led economic opportunities.
Rato Baltin is not only about distributing menstrual cups: it supports long-term change in communities where menstruation is still surrounded by taboos, restrictions and discriminatory practices such as chhaupadi. Led by the local team in Nepal, be artsy helps ensure that more women and girls can experience menstruation with health, safety and dignity, and move towards lives with more opportunities and decision-making power.
Donators (24)
Meritxell
50€
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Anonymous
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Glòria
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María Carmen
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Anna Firinu
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Identidad Acuatro SL
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Comments (12)
Glòria
Sé que es una buena causa, porque lo explicastéis en persona y mostrastéis imágenes de lo degradante que puede ser una cultura que no respeta la naturaleza tal como es y las personas. Además ofrecer copas menstruales promueve un respeto para el entorno ambiental muy necesario. Se cumplen así varias funciones. Gracias por estar ahí!
Anna Firinu
gracias por lo que haces
Rosa
Gràcies per la feina que feu. He sabut del vostre projecte gràcies al congrés Menstruita Power i la xerrada de la Beatriz San Román. Una abraçada i molta força en la vostra empresa!
be artsy
Moltes gràcies, Rosa! Si et vols fer sòcia de l'associació, ens aniria molt bé! Necessitem associades per poder fer una previsió d'on podem arribar, i ara ja som ONGD i les donacions desgraven. Si et ve de gust, a partir de 70 euros a l'any ja ets sòcia! https://beartsy.org/ca/associat/ o escriu-me a info@beartsy.org
Moltes gràcies!!
Salutacions des del Nepal!
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Clara
Identidad Acuatro SL
Somos Sara y Marisa de Los Placeres de Lola. Ojalá el año que viene podamos volver a apoyar vuestro proyecto. Muchas gracias por vuestra labor!! Un abrazo
be artsy
¡Gracias Sara y Marisa! :) Encantadas de poder contar con la colaboración de "los placeres de Lola"
¡¡Muchas gracias!! ¡Abrazos enormes desde Nepal!
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Clara
Dolors
Endavant Clara!! Molts ànims pel Nepal, Ajuda molt, però cuide't molt tu també!
be artsy
Gràcies Dolors!!! Cuideu-vos molt també vosaltres!! <3
laura
Estais haciendo un gran trabajo!! Bravo!!
be artsy
¡Gracias por tu ayuda, Laura! ¡Sin vosotras no podríamos!
Laia Rodriguez Puig
Gràcies Gràcies Gràcies!!Namaskar
be artsy
Gràcies a tu Laia! Sense la vostra ajuda no podríem!
Ramon i Joana
Endavant filla! Molta sort amb el projecte! Ajudeu a moltes dones i nenes!
Això és la quota de socis, de part del pare i la mare! <3
be artsy
Moltes gràcies! <3 Cuideu-vos molt!!