The impact of the SOUP program:

1)  In the year 2050, for the first time, women’s groups were formed in urban areas and the practice of working for their own rights and interests including saving money by joining the group has started. SOUP was the first organization who formed women’s groups in Kathmandu and Lalitpur. After that many more women’s groups were formed in different parts of the city. As a result, a lot of social work began to be done in urban areas through many women’s groups. Different work has started to be organized in each community.

2)  It has become easy for them to earn their own living by participating in economic activities including informal education, while urban women who stay at home have joined groups and developed the habit of doing things in the group as well as other groups have also learned this.

3)  For various reasons, the children who entered the city have access to formal education and the children who have dropped out of school have regained access to education and have been included in formal education.

4)  Develop the habit of contributing to community development by mobilizing local resources and skills.