Child Protection Nepal Project #16191

6000 Street Children in Nepal: Give Them a Home

by Our Sansar

6000 Street Children in Nepal: Give Them a Home

Project Report | Jan 16, 2025
Children, mushrooms, holidays and all the fun

By Julia Krepska | Founder and Director

We have just received the news from the staff that our mushroom growing efforts have really paid off - that means even more nutritious food for our children. And there are more and more children that now come during the day so many more meals to prepare!

We are gradually trying to help all of the families that we identified as working or begging on the streets. Almost none of the children go to school so we are providing transition classes to as many as possible and then enrol them into regular school. Before that happens though our outreach staff work very intensely with the families to fully understand their situation and to ensure that the families are able to send the children to school. We are trying to help all the families acquire necessary skills so that they can find meaningful employment and as a result the children are able to stop working/begging with them.

Once the children join our helpline (those that live with us and those that come just during the day), they have a lot of fun guaranteed. They receive literacy and numeracy classes, and once these are over, the music, arts and other engaging activities begin.

We had a lot of festivals in Nepal in October and November and of course a few more in recent weeks. Each festival tends to be celebrated with special food and a lot of traditional ceremonies. All our children have been having so much fun as the staff did their best to ensure the children are able to celebrate in the same way as other children do with their families. Children from the Helpline and Children’s Home tend to celebrate everything together so it’s always lovely to see so many happy faces in one place.

6 boys (well, young men now) from our children’s home are now working in Goa, India and they are having a time of their life. They are earning good salaries, learning new skills everyday and study remotely. They’ll all be back in Nepal in April for their college exams and then they are all planning to go back to India for even more experiences. We couldn’t be prouder of them!

Thank you all so so much for all the support!

Community visit

Morning exercise

Festival delicacies

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Sep 12, 2024
Who wants to study?

By Julia Krepska | Founder and Director

One of our older boys (well, we should be saying 'young men' but for us they are still 'our boys') from the Children's Home is now gaining work experience at our Child Helpline. He will be joining our other 4 boys that are already in Goa, India but needs to wait a bit longer to get his citizenship papers - and due to his background and the complicated Nepali system it is very difficult for him. We are all working hard to make it all possible and hoping that he will be able to get everything sorted in a month or so. In the meantime, he is doing his college and assisting our staff at the Helpline. The main focus for now is to continue helping those children that we identified during our survey - those who beg/work/collect rubbish on the streets and do not go to school. Everyday we speak to the children and families and everyday we get more children that are happy to join our day time classes at the Helpline. The aim is to prepare them for regular school with our interactive, fun classes and they will be enrolled into school in April, when the new school year starts.

Because of local politics and arguments between different government departments, we still have a couple of children at the Helpline that should be at a permanent children's home (they have no family). However, the local government cannot agree on which of their officers needs to sign one letter allowing us to move the children to a different organisation (we have found them an amazing place) so the children have to stay with us until we get that sorted. Without that paperwork we are not legally allowed to move the children anywhere. We have enrolled them into a local school that is near the Helpline so at least they have a good routine and are receiving extra support from our staff.

Apart from that, all the children at the Helpline have been having a great time - playing cricket, football, enjoying a lot of recent Nepali festivals. At the end of this year we will be doing another evaluation of the project and seeing which activities need to be expanded - we will see if it is enough for us to deliver more classes at the Helpline or if we need to start organising more classes in villages.

We will keep you all updated! Thank you so much for all the support - thanks to that we are able to equip our children with tools for an independent future, and we are hoping to keep helping more and more children that have no-one else to turn to.

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May 14, 2024
We want to go to school!

By Julia Krepska | Founder and Director

Play time at the Helpline

We want to go to school! - This is what we have been hearing from our children at the Helpline. This is such an amazing achievement and luckily the new school year has just started. That meant ordering specially made uniforms for the children, books, registering them with local schools and finally the children are able to attend the school, learn new things and make new friends.

During my visit to Nepal last week I visited the Child Helpline and am so proud to say that all the children look very happy and most have gained so much more confidence, a remarkable change. We now also have 8 children that come everyday for day time classes and they are enjoying those a lot!

We finished work on our survey of street children and so happy to say that out of 119 children that we interviewed only 3 are still sleeping on the streets (we have been working with these children for quite some time and are hoping we can get them off the streets as well). The rest of the children were found working on the streets, mostly with their siblings or parents, 13 of them are attending school. Whilst there is a decrease of children sleeping on the streets, because of COVID 19 and extremely bad economical situation in Nepal, there is a huge increase of whole families forced to beg, collect rubbish or sell basic items on the streets and they tend to involve their children in this work as well. We are planning to design different activities for the children and get them into education but it will take some time. As a small charity we can only focus on one place at a time but we are doing whatever we can.

Thank you so much for all the support, more exciting updates coming up soon!

Polio vaccinations

Outing to a newly opened pizza place in Birgunj

Learning numbers

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