Blind Women Association Nepal (BWAN)

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Blind Women Association Nepal (BWAN) is a non-political and nonprofit social organization led by blind and visually impaired women.
BWAN has been working in promoting rights and empowerment of blind and visually impaired women. BWAN has been engaged as a strong wing of Nepal Association of the Blind (NAB) since 1998 and registered officially in 2011 with the objectives of protecting and promoting rights and interests of Blind and Visually Impaired Women in Nepal.
Working as a self-help group, the organization aims to engage in holistic development and empowerment of blind women in general and women in particular by creating equal access to justice, education, employment and social activities that would eventually lead to their fuller inclusions in all spectrums of social, economic, and political development. The organization is determined to minimize and eradicate all the possible mental and physical harassment mistreatment and violence against all blind and visually impaired girls and women with disabilities.

Vision
Blind Women Association-Nepal envisages educated, safe, and economically reliant women with visual disabilities who are living dignified lives with political participation in their own communities.

Mission
To empower blind and visually impaired (BVI) women in Nepal by creating equitable environments in economic opportunity, education, and health facilities. To encourage these women’s political, social and cultural participation through lobby and advocacy. To help the BVI women become more self-reliant, capable, and socially aware citizens.

Organizational objectives
• To protect and promote the rights and interests of BVI girls and women in Nepal.
• To develop leadership qualities and richer personalities of the BVI women in Nepal.
• To promote public awareness and advocacy for gender equality in Nepal.
• To strengthen the organizational capacity of BWAN.
• To increase the accesses of BVI girls and women including women with disabilities (WWDs) to education, health, employment, and legal remedy.
• To advocate and enhance the access to justice of BVI women who are victims of violence, homelessness, and economic inequality.
• To facilitate the BVI women’s physical mobility.
• To educate life skills, health, and sex knowledge for WWDs and BVI girls, women, and adolescents.

Projects:
• Promoting economic justice of women with disabilities through financial inclusion
• Formation of paralegal committee and legal awareness training
• Localization of UNCRPD and SDG from a gender and disability perspective, to advance the right-based movement

Sita Subedi is the President of Blind Women Association Nepal (BWAN).

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