Contributor :
Manisha Dhakal
Executive Director
Blue Diamond Society
Nepal
I am Manisha Dhakal, transgender activist from Nepal and a founder member of APTN. I remember that I attended the meeting of transgender activists from our region to establish regional network for the transgender people. Thus , we formed APTN , which was in 2009. During that meeting, Midnight facilitated our group for the further meetings at Seven Sister’s office to discuss about how to move forward for joint regional voices of transgender people in the region and more coordination and collaboration with other regional networks. From these meetings to till now , what I found about Midnight is , he always promotes community voices, community ownership and community inclusions which always motivate us to bring our issues to the forefront for the benefit of our community. Just a few days ago, he wrote to me by encouraging me to raise the voices of our community at HLM and encourage me to engage in government delegation at HLM. Sharing the information and encouraging the community, local activists to raise our concern is an amazing quality of Midnight. On behalf of Blue Diamond Society and from the bottom of my heart, I congratulate and thank you Midnight for your remarkable contribution towards the community and community based organization
