By Julia Krepska | Director
It's been a really busy year at Our Sansar - we are happy to report that we managed to assist street children, child labourers, children who have been victims of trafficking and violence. Now, these children have much higher chances for an independent, happy life.
Our focus has always been and continues to be education. We are in the middle of preparing our improved in house curriculum that we will use across all our projects - the curriculum focuses on numeracy and literacy skills and the main aim is to prepare the children for the mainstream education.
One of the children that we have been recently helping through our Child Helpline is 14 years old Raju who comes from a very poor family – they cannot afford basic necessities so he was forced by his parents to work at a hotel where he started to sell alcohol and cigarettes. He was then repeatedly beaten by the hotel owners if he didn’t reach their targets and he escaped. His mother’s family helped him find other work but the situation repeated itself and he escaped again. Local government worker from Birgunj found Raju working at local people’s houses and being abused again. She contacted our staff that investigated the situation further and brought Raju to our Helpline. Even though Raju had been to school before he was not able to read or write when he joined us. Now we have an individual learning plan for him and he is doing really well and wants to finish his education.
Sadly, there are more and more cases of children in a similar situation to Raju that need urgent assistance. Our staff do whatever they can to reach all of them and to help them in a timely manner. We are very proud of them as often it is a very challenging work - and they are doing it all brilliantly.
The children from the Child Helpline and from the Children's Home are jointly planning their Christmas/New Year trip to a beautiful park so we will share some nice photos from that in the next report. And we are all looking forward to the new year.
Thank you so much for all the support, it really means a lot.
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