Project Report
| Nov 9, 2020
Time is standing still
By Julia Krepska | Director
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Due to the current situation we are still not able to open the transit home - travel between the districts keeps getting restricted and many of the government workers are off work due to coronavirus. All in all, it is very difficult to get anything arranged at the moment. We have however applied to the central government to get a special helpline number to be able to help children from more districts. We should have the result in about two months.
Nepal, the same as many other countries, has been badly affected by the coronavirus. The government now stopped any support for people affected by the lockdowns and curfews. Many people have not been able to work and now even the medical support has stopped - so people are expected to pay around £96 a day if they require hospital treatment. This results in people avoiding hospitals even when they need care, and passing on the virus to the rest of the family and community. There are more children now begging and working on the streets, some are forced to do that by their parents, and some have nowhere to go. We are now trying to reach out to as many as possible and help them in any way we can. We are also expecting the numbers of children needing assistance to increase significantly over the next few months.
Luckily, we have enough space at our Birgunj centre to help a large number of children, and we will try and open another centre if there is a need for that.
All this has been possible thanks to all your support. Please keep sharing the info on our projects within your networks. Thank you so much!
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Jul 8, 2020
Life on the street in this difficult time
By Julia Krepska | Director
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Province 2 in Nepal where we work to assist street children is a really poor region anyway and coronavirus just added massively to it. The government has provided some sort of shelter to some of the children and adults at their quarantine places - but these places lack hygiene, nutritious food or any basic facilities and people mix with each other, so not a proper quarantine, just the opposite.
Borders between many districts have been closed so we haven't been able to cover the cases from all districts apart from the 3 near to our child helpline. The lockdown is being eased now but the number of corona cases is going up in the region so we just need to wait and see. We are in constant communication with the local governments in other districts in case they need our support.
In the past 3 months we have been focusing on taking good care of our children at the children's home and child helpline/day care centre, supporting worst affected families and providing food, and basic necessities to children kept at the quarantine centres. We have had a few new referrals from the police to assist some children on the streets and we are doing what we can. Most importantly, all the children in our care are healthy and very happy with millions of activities and having the longest school holiday ever!
Thank you all so much for supporting us. Please share the information about us and our projects with your networks. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Mar 9, 2020
Education, shelter, care and fun
By Julia Krepska | Director
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We have been very busy providing assistance to more and more street children in Nepal. Our Child Helpline is getting busier and busier, and the police, businesses and members of the public are requesting more help from us everyday. We have had some very sad cases of children being abandoned, malnourished, begging on the streets or being married off at a very young age. But we keep on trying to help and at least some of these children will be able to have a happy future.
We have finally managed to locate a family of one of our boys after more than 6 years of searching for them. Both parents are deaf and mute, and very poor but they were really happy that we have found them and arranged a meeting with their long lost son. Luckily they live not that far away from our children's home so they will be able to visit him or he can visit them during school holidays. We will be doing proper monitoring of the situation and we will see if it is possible to help them and link the boy with them in the future.
Our boys at the children home have just had a sporting competition at their school and some of them won medals - so we are all proud! Now they are trying to train new children at the day care centre/child helpline so a lot of sports and games happening there on Saturdays!
We will keep you updated with the progress - hopefully this year we can help even more children in the whole of Province 2 in Nepal!
Thank you so much for your support and please share the details about us and the projects with your families and friends.
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