A new home emerging

Kathwomandu

by woman for woman

The Manifesto

From a city in the foothills of the world, a lineage of women continue to hold it up.

Kathwomandu is a place in the making. A home for the daughters of a country whose mountains have been climbed in our name, and whose work — at the loom, at the hearth, at the heart of every household — has too often gone unnamed.

We are not an answer. We are a doorway. A space we are building slowly, with care, to gather what Nepali women already are — fierce, quiet, brilliant, tender, defiant, ordinary, sacred — and to make sure the next generation finds it lit.

This is for the woman who left, and the woman who stayed. The one who weaves and the one who codes. The mother, the daughter, the sister, the friend. The one who has never been asked, and the one who has long stopped waiting to be.

We don't yet know the full shape of what we will build. We know only the why. The how will be written by many hands.

— with you, from the beginning.

What we hold

Four threads we are weaving from

Roots jara

To honor a heritage that is older than any border drawn on a map. The languages, the rituals, the recipes, the songs.

ii.

Hands haat

To celebrate the work of Nepali women — the textile, the trade, the labor that has carried families and continents.

iii.

Voice awaaj

To make a place where stories that were once whispered can be told aloud, in the languages they were lived in.

iv.

Together sangai

To build a sisterhood that crosses villages, valleys, and oceans — and a future none of us has to walk alone.

Sunrise over the Himalayan range in Nepal

"The mountain is tall because so many shoulders have held it up."

— A saying we are giving back its mothers

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