Comprehensive Needs Assessment and Data Analysis Workshop
Delegation Meeting with honorable Mrs. Aava Kumari Singh, Madhesi Commission Office, Kathmandu
Policy review of Madhesi Act 2017, National Disable act 2017 in the perspective for gender disability and inclusion of women with disabilities.
Orientation on Legal Literacy
Three-day culinary training for single and marginalized women with disabilities to promote healthy eating and self-employment
मधेश प्रदेशका अपांगता भएका महिलाहरु
About Pahichan
Pahichan Nepal, is a non-profit self-help organization that is dedicated to empowering single and marginalized women with disabilities in Nepal.
In Nepal, single women with disabilities face severe discrimination due to their gender, marital status, ethnicity, and disability. These women are often excluded from family support systems, leading to isolation, economic instability, and emotional distress. Unmarried, widowed, divorced women or single mothers experience double marginalization, being stigmatized for not fulfilling traditional roles as wives or mothers. Married women with disabilities are sometimes abandoned by their husbands or blamed for their spouse’s death, deepening their vulnerability. Without family support, these women struggle with limited access to healthcare, education, and employment opportunities, exacerbating their social and economic exclusion. Additionally, they are often excluded from decision-making processes and are not recognized for their diverse needs, further marginalizing them and preventing access to equal rights and opportunities.
What We Do
Free Volunteer service
We provide free Volunteer service for women with disability to visit hospital for health check-up
Communal Houses
The project aims to provide a secure basis for Pahichan to start showing how young single disabled women can be empowered and ‘find identity’, despite all the barriers they face. It is NOT a ‘one size fits all’ solution to this double burden of discrimination in Nepal’s patriarchal society, but a route to escape traditional roles as family chattel or worse. Women will have the chance to start becoming financially self-sufficient, while living in the relative security of a shared women’s house where they can pool costs and support each other. The house will provide a springboard for them, a model to leverage further support from government and other organisations, and to spread the idea more widely.
R-Rehabilitation & Rights
This is so much more than physical aids and appliances (e.g. white canes, therapies) encompassing attitude shift among disability women themselves to understand their human rights, and practical support to realize their potential.
E-Education
Facilitating skills and entrepreneurship training to build economic independence, and education (agree entitlement for women with disabilities in Nepal)
A-Advocacy for Access
For and with each individual woman who joins the residence, based on her identified needs AND wider advocacy for women who are single and with disabilities.
L-Linkage & Networking
Creating a strong unity of single women with disability, linking up with Nepal’s disability and general women’s organizations, government, local NCOs' and I/NGOs’.
