About The Campaign

What the CAMPAIGN looks like

INVISIBLE NO MORE  campaign logo

Almost 90% of the families affected form enforced disappearance live in rural areas of Nepal struggling every day with poverty and discrimination.

After the conflict, many women were left alone in taking care of their land and children.

The modest support provided to these families by the government is not sufficient to guarantee them a sustainable living.

Some programs have provided assistance to women and their children, yet their needs and rights remain overlooked by governmental and non governmental actors.

Children, youth and women who have a relative missing, face daily discrimination from their community and extended relative members.

The campaign is not only about asking truth, justice and preserving memory it also considers the severe impact enforced disappearance had on many women and children.

The campaign gives the opportunity to families to raise their concerns and needs, therefore calling for:

• Livelihood supports

• Education for illiterate women to become independent in campaigning for their rights

• Psychosocial support to overcome the trauma, discrimination due to disappearance of a family member and restart their life.

• Education and awareness among the community to build social cohesion and compassion

• Participatory documentation and Memory Work

 
The campaign is developed in two phases, one aiming at short term goals and the second at medium-long term objectives.

PHASE 1.Has the objective to immediately create awareness, and mobilise families so that a fundraising event can be created the 10^th Of December, International Human Rights Day, where key actors can participate and possible take ahead the cause of the families with sustainable projects.

PHASE 2. Has the objective to possibly bring on tour the event in other districts so that materials, photographs and videos produced in phase one, can be displayed to wider public in the country. Also Phase two aims at replicating the activities created in the first one, engaging more families and activist, in order to bring echo in the nation wide.

Graffiti on the wall demanding Justice, Mexico

We want to help the families in a simple way, by focusing on artistic expression, by writing their stories, by preserving their memories and in allowing some of them to come to Kathmandu and express their concerns in front of a wider public who could possibly assist them in the long run with concrete projects.

In fact, this is not a large scale development project, but rather a collective idea borne of a strong connection to the families known to activist and ordinary people, which aims at mobilising key actors in supporting further the families who had missing relatives.

We believe in the ownership of the families in carrying out further the campaign with support of activists, making sure that what they want and need is at the core of the campaign.