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Update 2011

September. Learning English, driving taxis: the latest Mitini Nepal report (PDF 13KB) is in.

Mitini Nepal members say hello from Kathmandu: First of all thanks for this project. We appreciate your support. In the future we hope that you will support us for other programs, too.

Using your funds 2011

Approximately £550 is left from the training. This is how Mitini Nepal would like to use it:

Train 6-12 people in basic English

Train one cab driver in Kathmandu

Train 50 women in sewing in rural Makwanpur so they can earn money from home and start a sewing cooperative and use the profit to partly pay for more people to train.

Evaluation 2009-2010 (PDF 98 KB)

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 (right) 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 (see Green Tara Trust for other BODHI support).

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.'

Mitini Nepal Fact Sheet (PDF 247 KB)