All posts in: "Skills Training"

  1. 2016 at Shenpen Skills Training — Empowering Nepali women by offering skills training

    SHENPEN Skills Training is proud to say that through our partner, the Women’s Cooperative Society (WCS), and with the financial support of C.H.A.N.C.E for Nepal (UK), SHENPEN Skills Training sponsors an average of eight farming skills training a year and reaches out to 185 women every year. Shenpen first began supporting WCS in…

  2. Digging for Success

    Women living in developing countries like Nepal have to struggle a lot to prove their competency. It is also true for Srijana Lama (Thapa) age 35 from Thankot. She was one of the participants in vegetable farming training organized by Women Cooperative Society (W.C.S.) and supported by Shenpen and C.H.A.N.C.E for…

  3. Sunita's success story

      Sunita is from Bahaktapur, Thimi and she is doing farming on eight ropanis of rented land. She pays around NRs 80,000 land rent annually. She invests around Nrs 9,00,000 in farm yearly and makes a profit of 5,00,000. Sunita started farming three years ago; it has been a family…

  4. Earthquake Relief Fund Through WCS

    Women Cooperative Society (WCS) has distributed cash as an immediate relief to victims of the devastating earthquake who are micro-credit members of WCS. After collecting the information about the scale of damage by the earthquake, WCS has distributed Rs.1,500 to members whose houses have been completely damaged, Rs.1,000 to those…

  5. Success stories of Shenpen funded program

    For ten years, Mrs. Sharada Newa has been a member of Shanti Women Center in Gadavari VDC. In the beginning, she used to make candles, however, due to the lack of a market, she was struggling to succeed. Determined to have a business that was profitable, Sharada underwent the seasonal…

  6. Basic Mushroom Farming Training by WCS

    Four days training of Basic Mushroom farming held on Syuchatar-Barpipal from February 7th, 2014. The training was provided by Women’s Cooperative Society and 26 local women farmers from the community based savings and loans groups were participated. The training place Syuchatar- Birpapal is approximately 6 kilometer west from Kalanki. The…

  7. The Elementary Vegetables Farming Training Conducted by WCS

    In the mid of December  The Women’s Cooperative Society (WCS) offer ‘The elementary Vegetables Farming Training’ to 30 local women farmers community in ‘Sangla’ which is situated at the Northern part of the Kathmandu. It is around 12 km from the center of Kathmandu. These women got an opportunity to…

  8. Vegetable Farming

    We were met above a most expansive and impressive field by Sabina Pohkrel, who was holding her curved knife in her hand, a symbol of a farming woman in Nepal. She looked like many Nepali woman who work their farms. She is thin, strong, determined. Sabina is a fortunate one,…