By Julia Krepska | Founder and Director
Communities is Nepal observe many holidays - and the biggest ones, Dashain and Diwali, are taking place throughout October. Our children are being given new clothes and some delicious food throughout the festive season, and they are having a lot of fun. We are always ensuring that they celebrate all the important occasions, same as all other children in the area.
Just before the holidays, our staff were vigorously doing research on new communities near to Birgunj that need our support. These are mainly communities that have been denied access to basic necessities such as education for generations. Most parents cannot read or write, and they do not recognize the importance of education. Majority of the children do not go to school at all – some are enrolled into a local school but do not attend the classes. The children mainly belong to a Dom caste, one of the Dalit castes that tend to live near the markets from where they pick up food that has often gone off and use that for their meals. There is a huge issue with alcohol in the communities that we assist and most money earned by the parents is being spent on alcohol on the same day as they are being paid for their road sweeping jobs (most people within the community do the same job). The children tend to spend most of their days on the streets, either begging or collecting rubbish.
Our Child Helpline is very busy now with around 80 children coming for classes – so a lot of noise and laughter everywhere!
We are also conducting monthly meetings with the parents to ensure we can raise awareness about the importance of education with the aim of enrolling all the children into regular school. Some of children (and parents) do not have birth certificates or citizenship papers so we are also helping them with obtaining those.
All in all, we are very grateful to all our staff for the dedication and really hard work – thanks to them the children are inspired now and started to have dreams about their futures.
And as always, thank you to all our supporters!!!
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