With and For Girls Award Winners 2019, Southbank Center, London

Girls Empowered by Travel-Nepal has been selected among 170 applicant organizations to receive an Award for the work we do to advance girls' rights and empowering the young rural-urban girls through meaningful travel. Our two members Sajana Bhadel, President and PaBitra Majhi, Secretary, represented GET-Nepal in the Award Ceremony organized by With and for Girls Collective in London, UK. It was such a proud moment for the whole GET-Nepal team to be awarded and acknowledged in such an international platform. The team was involved in a week of celebration and discussion which follows: Collective Care and Wellbeing, Imagining our Feminist Future, Sisterhood and Solidarity, Networking, Donors meet up and Award Ceremony. The award winners presented the collective manifesto to the World.

Ms. Sajana Bhadel holding the National Flag of Nepal and Ms. Pabitra Majhi, holding the Award at Southbank Center, London

The WFG Award has really motivated the GET-Nepal team to move further, creating many Girl Travel Alliances supporting and uplifting each other as community leaders.

Our youth Participants posing during Travel Talks:) Travel with meaning:Travel Talks-Series I was successfully accomplished on January 17, 2020 with 17 of participants where we had Ms. Shanta Nepali : Film-maker and a Traveler as a youth forum in the discussion. The discourse mainly focused on the prevailing issues in Tourism Industry and the roles of we, as a citizen of Nepal for the prospectus of fulfilling the pinnacles in the riveting tourism were discussed. The main aspiration of this talk was to meaningfully interact and celebrate "Visit Nepal 2020" as well as to acknowledge the different preparation statistics to welcome 2 million international visitants but remembering the three more essential factor; "What is Visit Nepal 2020?" a must understanding to promote the tourism province as a duty of each individual, "the problems" and  "our roles and responsibilities" during the Visit Nepal as a young future fabricating youths. The main highlight spot of this discussion was on "Why few women are involved in Tourism Trade of  Nepal?" Through discussion, we analysed looking at wide dimensional perspective about women during the travel related themes who usually  have fewer participation in these provinces. In a loophole, we can conclude the various rationale such as the physical, working structure of women in the scenario. Travel Talks is an opportunistic platform to escort young girls in the area of Tourism industry and to conversant the knowledge with their essential presence in this sector.

Rural Hitaishi participants 2019

Leadership Bootcamp: Empowering Young Girls to Explore, one of the interactive programs of Hitaishi: Rural-Urban 2019 was successfully accomplished from the 19th  of Nov to 27th of  Nov 2019. The Rural Hitaishi participants were selected from Sarlahi, Rasuwa and on the basis of their passion to bring positive changes within themselves and the communities they travel to and they live in.

The Bootcamp was organized to enhance the leadership skills of young rural girls so they will be able to address the socio-economic issues in the long term. They will be playing a role model of community leaders. The Bootcamp program activities were focused on personal development, visit youth and women-led organization, explore the entrepreneurial ideas and action plans on the last day.

At the end of the workshop, the participants also designed action plans to implement back home. The action plans included campaigning against child marriage, campaigning for environmental cleanliness and educating illiterate adults in rural areas. The Rural Hitaishi participants will execute different programs within a year and create Get Travel Circles in their own communities and create the travel-related business in the long term.

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Youth Participants of Set Your Goals SET YOUR GOAL: EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES' is a 4-day training package for the students who has just appeared SEE, +2 and pursuing a bachelors degree in any faculty? The training is jointly initiated by Girls Empowered by Travel-Nepal (GET) and 2030 Youth Force Nepal. The training is conducted every Saturday from June 2019  at GET Office, Basantapur. Each batch starts their course on the first Saturday of the month and graduates on the last Saturday of the month.  The training includes the following sessions: 1st week: Public Speaking (Interactive, Innovative fun activities) 2nd week: CV, Profile and Cover Letter for job applications and Financial Literacy 3rd Week: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Travel Guide (Day out session with a day out hiking) 4th week: Personal Goal Setting, Social Media Management, Platforms for National and International Opportunities and Graduation (certificate distribution. Till the date we have reached to more than 100 of youths from a diverse educational background. Recently we organized the program for Agriculture students at Lamjung  Campus in coordination with Technical Students’ Association of Nepal (TSAN), Lamjung Campus. We are trying to reach more youths outside the valley. We believe that every youth is part of the pillar.