A postcard from Nepal
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The challenges of selecting trainees
In Nepal it's easy to find appropriate girl trainees for an all-expenses-paid residential tailoring course, right? Wrong. ChoraChori's basic tailoring course offers a very attractive training package for a girl from an impoverished rural community. A trainee can join a six-month-long residential course with all costs met by ChoraChori and even receive a small training
Preet’s visit to ChoraChori
Gandys Foundation Trustee Preet Legha bowled over by visit to ChoraChori in Nepal. Over the past year, we have been privileged to work alongside UK partner charity, The Gandys Foundation. The Foundation has joined us in providing funding for the set up our new Boys' Hostel and the retrofit of Kitini College in Kathmandu. The
Anjali’s second career
Through its advanced vocational training programme, ChoraChori offers second career opportunities. In my memoir, Gates of Bronze, I described how - bizarrely - we set up a contemporary circus group for young people whom my then charity had rescued from slavery inside Indian circuses. Many children had been lured into this miserable existence by traffickers
Visiting Josephina
Yesterday, a ChoraChori field team visited Josephina, one of the girls who completed her basic tailoring training course with us earlier this year. These pictures were taken yesterday of the head of our vocational training, Lily (centre), and staff lawyer, Sunita (right), visiting Josephina in Jhapa. This is the District in Nepal with the highest
Our manifesto for 2020!
2019 has been a remarkable year so far for ChoraChori in Nepal; we're aiming higher in 2020. Girls in the garden of ChoraChori's Child Trauma Management Centre in Kathmandu At a time when the UK is gripped with enthusiasm (not) at the prospect of a pre-Christmas general election, it is perhaps timely to
ChoraChori’s new girls’ hostel identified
ChoraChori has identified premises to rent as its new girls' hostel in Kathmandu. After an exhaustive search of the neighbourhood of our existing Children's Refuge and Rehabilitation Centre on the outskirts of Kathmandu, we have finally identified the building that will be our future girls' hostel at the right price. We aim to take this
He made it - congratulations Nims!
ChoraChori Ambassador Nirmal "Nims" Purja MBE today entered the mountaineering history books after completing his "Project Possible". This morning we awoke to the wonderful news that Nims had successfully summited Shishapangma, the 14th and final peak in his Project Possible challenge. He has absolutely smashed the previous record for climbing all of these peaks. Nims
Project launch at the Soroptimist International annual conference in Bournemouth
This weekend's Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) Federation annual conference was the setting for the launch of our three-year collaborative project, "Empowering Girls in Nepal". Time flies. It is hard to believe that it's a year since ChoraChori was chosen as the SIGBI charity for the 2019-2022 collaboration "Empowering Girls in Nepal"