6000 Street Children in Nepal: Give Them a Home

Recently, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of children needing assistance in Birgunj, Janakpur and beyond. We are now expanding our Outreach Programme and hoping to locate most of the children that have nowhere to turn to for help in Province 2 in southern Nepal. 

The elections are coming up in Nepal and many political candidates are preoccupied with trying to win the votes but the actual issues facing local communities are being totally neglected - nobody wants to make any decisions now as everything might change again in the next month or so. It took us a very long time and a lot of effort to locate a brother of the boy that had been abused in the most horrendous ways and forced to work at the abuser's hotel. We had suspicions that the brother might also be forced to work and we were right - we are now trying to move him to our centre and work out the ways we can help him and prosecute the abusers. 

On the 12th April we celebrated the International Day for Street Children - the children from our and other centres took part in an arts workshop and had many games organised. We also invited around 20 children that we are trying to help on the streets and within the community. They all had such fun and were very happy with the food and care provided. We are in touch with them on a daily basis and hope that most will join us at least during the day when they can receive education, extra curricular activities, food and can socialise with our other children. Sadly, most of them are being forced to beg or work on the streets by their parents so we are liaising with the families on the best future plans for the children. 

In the next 2 weeks we are launching a new project so we will keep you updated with these developments as well!

Thank you so much for all the support, it is really needed at the moment and we are so grateful for any past, current and future donations - these have and will change the lives of a lot of children in Nepal.