Dispatches from Hira: Women’s Day Celebrations 2021!

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This is a special day for all the women worldwide. The campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is “Choose To Challenge.” A challenged world is an alert world. And from challenge comes change. So let’s all #ChooseToChallenge.

Today the members of HCC gathered in Khushi Ghar to celebrate this auspicious day. We organized the program and all participated with full enthusiasm. All the members gathered and celebrated with showcasing talents, talked about the situation, rights and the current situation of women in today’s context. The program started with the insight of how women’s day was celebrated, how women were treated before, how the women are empowered now. Many gave a short speech, recited poems and shared opinions about women in general. Every one had a badge in them with each of the feminine qualities so that everyone feels special. It was a beautiful day. Every woman should be treated with love, respect and care not only today but everyday. It’s always so nice to be in our close group of family circle and celebrate this women’s day.

Wishing everyone a Happy Women’s Day.

Finally the day arrived and we had to arrive at the venue by 3. We rushed to the models and did the final fittings. By that time, Dinesh Uncle, Hira Aunt and Bruce Uncle had arrived. As my sequence was on the 4th we had a huge rush backstage that let me meet them only for a brief minute and we couldn’t even click a picture together. Show started at 7. After the third sequence we had the models change into our designs. Finally, our design was on the runway, and we walked at the end of the sequence with our showstopper, Simpal Kharel. While walking on the runway, there were a huge number of audiences, included; designers, press media, journalists, photographers, ambassadors, etc. After our sequence, we went backstage and we really had a roller coaster of emotions. All those sleepless nights, stresses, no meal days and all the difficulties we went through were finally over. It was worth everything. This concludes my three years of learning and we had the chance to showcase it to the crowd and people. After our sequence we finally had the time to breather. All along these past three months it felt as if somebody had put on something in our neck as we were suffocating but now it felt as if it had been let go. We could breathe in peace.

After the runway we had a huge feast and that tasted like the best meal that I had for the entire life.