KANALLAN’s Girls’ Empowerment Program (GEP) was launched in rural Nepal in 2018 to help vulnerable girls escape marital slavery, trafficking and abuse.
Originally supporting 24 girls, the GEP has grown exponentially to directly provide 22,573 Nepalese girls with life-changing opportunities. Covering everything from healthcare to menstrual hygiene and self-defence to career opportunities, the GEP offers girls new beginnings at a formative stage of life.
The GEP has overcome entrenched cultural beliefs and stigma which often meant girls were forced to spend their monthly period shut away alone in animal huts.
They would never speak up in public, let alone speak to a man. Fast forward to today and the GEP sees girls interviewing politicians on the program’s weekly national TV show, winning international youth awards and achieving success in sport. Alongside this, the girls are carving out amazing careers all while becoming pillars of their communities.
Local communities across Nepal have embraced the GEP and now benefit from confident, empowered and happy young women ready to make a crucial difference locally and nationally. In 2022, with over 100,000 Nepalese households watching the GEP’s weekly national TV show, KANALLAN launched the GEP nationwide across all seven Nepalese provinces.
