REPORT BACK July 2026
Meet Nikki Kumar, one of the front-line workers your PRECIOUS ALWS action supports.
Your PRECIOUS kindness creates Champions - for Change! Nikki is a trained social worker and educator you support in Nepal. She helps women and girls to know that they are precious. Nikki says: “In this community we have a lot of gender-based violence. I give counselling to women experiencing this.
“The number of early child marriages has also decreased a lot.”
I also teach young girls using the “Champions for Change” program. It includes training on hygiene and sanitation, early child marriage, and child rights. We teach the girls where to get help and how. Some girls can’t afford pads so use dirty rags instead. This can make them sick with infections. We provide them with pads, buckets, mops and soap. We have found that infections have decreased because of the training.
PRECIOUS aimed to protect 1000 girls from child marriage and tooearly childbirth in 100 days
The number of early child marriages has also decreased a lot. Early child marriage is not ever good and should be avoided. Their bodies and emotions are not yet ready. Both the mother and baby are in danger with an early pregnancy.
My hope is that this program can be extended to improve the lives of more girls and women.” As she helps girls become champions for change, Nikki also models courage. “I am proud that I can go outside my house to work. Most women here are not allowed by their husbands to leave the home. I’m glad that my family accepts this.”
Like Nikki, you can be proud of the change your kindness is making. Thank you for being precious!
28 ALWS supporters together provided a $200,000 matching grant
the kindness of the ALWS family flowed … 3000 girls were supported by Mothers day!
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