Kathwomandu
Built to uplift
for womanby woman
The Manifesto
From a city in the foothills of the world, a lineage of women who continue to champion their tradition.
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 fertile plains have been sown by our sweat, 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.
"The mountain is tall because so many shoulders have held it up."
— A saying we are giving back its mothers
Join the circle
Be among the first
to hear what comes next.
We will only write when there is something worth saying.