The Everett Program strives to make a positive change within our own community and amongst others. Every year, students apart of the Everett Program get to work with a local or international project partner. This year, we have ten teams collaborating with different community partners working to make a positive change. The Everett Program is excited to work with a new project partner known as Voices of Women Media.
Voices of Women Media is a feminist, nonprofit organization based in Nepal. Their mission is to promote a world-wide feminism movement, uphold women’s rights, and to be able to live in a world of equality where we are able to exercise our basic rights. According to their mission statements, VOW Media are “committed to offering access and opportunities to media technology and different forms of art, so that girls & women* can voice their own lives – in order to raise hidden and silenced issues in our communities.” Through the use of technology, they strive to create a world in which we are all on an equal playing field–specifically one which raises the voices of women and girls. The organization has multiple projects to help accomplish their goals including Memory, Truth, and Justice, Junkiri: The Feminist Library, and VOW Media Techno Hub. * (both cis and trans)
This year, the team consists of Lily Li, Amy Cruz, Andrea Lopez, and Sereena Yeghiazarian. These students are all committed to helping VOW Media with their Techno Hub project by developing a curriculum to help the staff transfer computer knowledge to Nepalese girls in a creative and innovative way.
Source: Voices of Women Media, “About Us,” http://www.voicesofwomenmedia.org/aboutus/.
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