We run a Children's Home and Child Helpline in Birgunj, Nepal. When we started in 2013 there were over 150 children living on the streets. There are very few children sleeping on the streets now thanks to our work but many are working and begging on the streets with their families. Apart from residential and educational support to those that do not have shelter, we are giving classes to hundreds of children from the slum areas to get them off the streets and to give them tools for bright future.
1 in 4 people living below the poverty line in Nepal live in Province 2, Nepal. There are 10,000 cases a year of violence against girls and women, the highest number of missing children in Nepal, and 50% of children out of school. Due to open borders with India there is a high number of children trafficked through these borders, and street children can move freely from Nepal to India and vice versa. Majority of the children we are working with have never attended school.
The home and the child helpline offer shelter, education, care and a re-uniting service with families wherever possible. We also deliver community training and work in the filed extensively. Our goal is to provide the children with the skills and ability to live independent and happy lives in the future. We want them all to receive the best education they can get, and for all of this to continue to help many more street children - we need your continued support to do this!
This programme is currently the only one of it's kind in this area of Nepal, making the work of Our Sansar absolutely crucial in helping the many street and working children. The long term goals of the home are: re-uniting children with their close or extended families wherever possible, providing the children with shelter, food and education, including skills training so that they can live independent lives in the future and rehabilitation of any children addicted to drugs.
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