Teenagers in Dhankuta are now taking the lead in their schools against the increasing incidents of violence. They are joining the campaign after receiving training from Dhankuta Municipality to raise awareness about gender-based violence and impart social and financial skills.
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Everyone wore T-shirts with the slogan 'Sexual violence is a crime, let's speak out against it'. 23 teenagers from Dhankuta Municipality, who are preparing to join an awareness campaign against gender-based violence at the school level, have united in this way.
Teenagers from Dhankuta are now going to lead their schools against the increasing incidents of violence. They are going to join the campaign after receiving trainer training from Dhankuta Municipality on awareness of gender-based violence and transfer of social and financial skills.
The training was conducted with the implementation of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens and financial support from the World Bank. Dhankuta Municipality provided an eight-day trainer training related to social and financial skills transformation by involving 23 teenagers from the city. Khindra Adhikari, the project manager, said that the training was conducted under the Integrated Service Access Project for Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence.
The teenagers who have received this training will now return to school and provide training on gender-based violence to their classmates, said Nushraj Shrestha, an expert at the project implementation unit. ‘The teenagers have been given training in trainers to reduce all types of gender-based violence, including domestic and female violence,’ he said. ‘The teenagers will work to raise awareness among the youth.’ After this, after the next round of training, the same teenagers will work to raise awareness in their communities against gender-based violence.’
Teenagers from nine government schools within Dhankuta Municipality participated in the training. Nikita Bishwakarma, a participant in the training, said that since she was clear about gender-based violence, she would now train herself and her friends on it. Another participant, Prashanna Adhikari, said, ‘Since most of them have faced problems due to lack of information about gender-based violence, we will work to reduce it.’
Training instructor Sanyog Thakuri said that training was provided in 17 activities. He informed that the teenagers will be trained in those at the school level. According to him, after training in 10 activities again next year, the teenagers will start a campaign on gender-based violence at the community level from the second week of next Baisakh. Dhankuta Municipality Mayor Chintan Tamang, Deputy Mayor Bhima Devi Khanal Adhikari, Chief Administrative Officer Dasharath Rai, and Women, Children and Senior Citizens Sub-Branch Chief Phul Maya Tamang wished the teenagers who are going to join the awareness campaign against gender-based violence.
