EmpowerHER: Rights, Protection and Hope

We were hoping to have at least part of our paperwork processed by this time of the year but another provincial elections are coming up so the government offices are not processing any new application. There might be some changes to regulations so they want to wait for another month before they can start looking at new project proposals. 

So we still have to wait. But we are getting new staff in place and they will work at our children's home in Birgunj to get to know the project and then they will replicate the project in Butwal. 

One of our boys at the Birgunj home is actually from a village near Butwal so we need go there very soon anyway to try and link him with his family. He was found in India at a railway station and sent back to Nepal and the police and children's authorities referred him to our children's home. The boy says he has parents but so far the police or the local authorities haven't been able to trace them, so we're trying to do whatever we can to help locate them. 

We will keep you updated with the progress and hopefully we can share some good news within our next report. 

Thank you so much for all your support so far, and please keep supporting the street children that really need our help. 

It's been a very difficult week for Nepal again - huge rainfall came with the monsoon and caused flooding. So far almost 100 people are dead as a result of the flooding and hundreds lost their houses. There are many landslides on the roads outside of Kathmandu so at the moment we cannot get to any of the projects. 

Our boys at the Birgunj home are fine - the city got flooded but our home is in the village nearby, amongst rice fields, so everyone is safe. 

The local elections in Butwal have finished so we should now be able to start the legal process to register a new home over there for street children. Once the roads are clear and once it is safe for us to travel, we will be going there to begin searching for appropriate building and to start the paperwork. That might take a couple of months or so, but we are getting closer and closer to helping those children that need our help the most. 

We are now recruiting new staff who will stay at our Birgunj home for a couple of months to get trained so that everyone is ready to start the new project as soon as possible. We will be trying to recreate the successful Birgunj model home in Butwal. 

We will be sending regular updates and hopefully we will be able to bring some exciting news with the next report.

Thank you so much for your support so far and please share the information about the project amongst your family and friends.