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Projects & Activities: Current Projects

Sarita with puppy

NEWS

Laxmi’s Story (pdf 18KB) Journey from village to co-founding Mitini Nepal

New photos 2009 (pdf 290KB)

Sept 09: Evaluation just in (pdf 35KB)

Mitini Nepal

Training in computer skills and English

Mitini Nepal founders Mira and Laxmi (l)
Photos on this page courtesy Peter Cogger

British medical practitioner Dr Jane Stephens spends six months of every year working in London and the rest in Nepal. She set up the Green Tara Trust in 1999 to provide ‘health-related services to some of the most disadvantaged children, women and men in rural areas of Nepal.’

Dr Stephens discovered the lesbian group Mitini Nepal in Kathmandu. She writes: 'Homosexuality is supposedly illegal in Nepal, yet the constitution states that basic freedoms of association, expression, and assembly must be enjoyed by all without discrimination.

Sexual violation of people of all alternative sexualities is common and hidden from public view. The main NGO working to support these groups is called the Blue Diamond Society. However, the focus of their work and funding is men who have sex with men due to the increased HIV risk incurred by penetrative gay intercourse. This increased HIV risk means they can get good NGO funding, but only for men who have sex with men.'

More (pdf 246KB)