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The nutribeads bracelet is an essential part of the Golden 1000 Days program, supported through our ‘Battiayo & Sochai for a happy healthy future’ campaign. The nutribeads bracelet, which you can see in the picture, is a social innovation of the Social Changemakers and Innovators (SOCHAI). It is a crucial tool to fight malnutrition in Nepal by raising awareness in communities. With well-trained youth volunteers, the Golden 1000 Days program provides nutrition counseling to pregnant and lactating mothers who are visiting local health centers for the vaccination of their children. During these counseling sessions the nutribeads bracelet is used as...

Fairly traded goods are often more expensive than things you can find in big chain stores, and there is a very good reason for this. These small producers ensure that the people sewing, weaving and felting your goods are paid fairly, and do not have to work 14-hour days just to live in poverty. Ethical spending is important to think about during March as we reflect on barriers to achieving gender equality. In North America and Europe, two of our hottest gender equality issues are equal pay and women’s unpaid work burden. In case you hadn’t heard: on average women...

We are excited about our collaboration with Social Changemakers and Innovators (SOCHAI) for the campaign ‘Battiayo & Sochai for a happy healthy future’. We will be donating 20% of our sales made from March 6th until April 12th to Sochai for the Golden 1000 days program. This specially developed nutrition education and counseling program for pregnant and lactating women supports a network of trained youth volunteers to fight malnutrition. Sochai is a youth led non- profit organization in Nepal that focuses on improving health, nutrition, and socio- economic status of women, girls, and children. These improvements are made through education,...

International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 all around the world, and this year the theme is “Choose to Challenge”, calling on all of us to be proactive about challenging gender norms and inequality that often feel “normal” or impossible to change. An example of this kind of norm is our avoidance of the topic of menstruation. Here is the truth: approximately half of the people living on this planet shed up to 80ml of uterine lining (BLOOD) through their vaginas every 28 days on average. This has happened since the beginning of human history, and will continue well...

Sonam Losar is a Buddhist New Year celebration (there are multiple in Nepal) celebrated on the first full moon of the month of Magh in the Nepali calendar. Sonam Losar is celebrated by the influential Tamang ethnic group, as well as several smaller or more remote groups: the Yolma, Dura, Thakalis, Dolpalis and Sinsas. The Tamang are native to the hilly region in and around the Kathmandu valley and have close ethnic links to Tibetans, tracing their roots all the way back to the Mongol empire. “Ta” translates into horse and “mang” to warrior or rider, so the Tamang are...