6000 Street Children in Nepal: Give Them a Home

It's exams time now for our older boys who are attending college. 6 of the boys are those that came back from India after working there for almost a year, and they will be going back there straight after the exams. This time, they will go back to different employers as now they have more experience (and they are very good at what they do!) and they can choose their next place of work. After the feedback they got from their previous place of work and after some of the other resort owners saw the boys at work, they have had quite a few offers of work and had to refuse most of them. We are so proud of them. 

In the meantime, we started more community classes - we have new 55 children coming for classes at our Child Helpline and 40 new children are receiving our classes within the community. The classes only started a couple of weeks ago so we will be monitoring the progress closely and making any necessary changes. So far all the new children are having warm up classes, basic literacy, hygiene, team work and building self confidence. At the moment we are renting one space within the community on a temporary basis and are working with the village committee to make a nice community space for those that can be used for a variety of activities. The nearest school is 5km away from the village so too far for the smallest children to walk there – we are trying to find a better solution for them. The aim is to provide them with 2 hours long tuition classes and to enrol them into a regular school. 

We are also still working on solutions for the children that work/beg with their parents on the streets – many are from India or other parts of Nepal and tend to move around quite a lot. This makes enrolment into a regular school very difficult so it takes a long time to find solution for all. Where possible we are trying to get the parents enrolled into one of our training courses and help them with employment. Not all are interested in that but those that are will be starting the training soon. 

I wanted to say a huge thank you for all the support, it really means so much. The results are incredible, we are seeing less and less children living permanently on the streets and more children attending school. Thank you!