We piloted a micro-enterprise program in Syangjya district (western Nepal), in which small business development paired with collective empowerment training improved the lives – and livelihoods – of participants.Īpeiron’s programs gradually expanded to Dhading and Jumla, two under-developed rural districts in central and western Nepal. Apeiron has run CASANepal since then, expanding our support to up to more than 100 women and children at a time.īuilding on the skills training we initially developed for women in CASANepal, Apeiron staff introduced income-generating activities (IGA) into field-based projects in 2009. Women began arriving from far-flung districts of Nepal to receive personalized psychosocial support, empowerment, and skills training in a residential group setting. In 2007, we founded CASANepal, a safe house in Kathmandu for women and their children escaping GBV. Since then, Apeiron has been dedicated to needs-based projects across Nepal that empower women and reduce gender-based violence (GBV), understanding that this approach results in long-term impacts such as increased self-awareness, vocational skills, and equality in households. In 2004, the team formally established Apeiron as an international NGO with a country office in Kathmandu.

They founded an organization and named it Apeiron, a Greek word meaning “unlimited”, “boundless” or “infinite”.Īfter running empowerment projects in various countries that helped participants to remove the boundaries from their lives, Apeiron’s team settled in Nepal, where Violence Against Women (VAW) remained a major barrier to the development of individual women and girls, their communities, and Nepali society as a whole. These friends wished to make a difference, one life at a time, to infinity. Apeiron was founded in 1996 in Florence, Italy, by a group of friends who dreamed of an equal world: a place where women and men could benefit from the same opportunities, enjoy the same rights and live a life free of violence.

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