Educating Nepal's most vulnerable Children

We actively engage with vulnerable communities, closely collaborating with local schools to identify out-of-school children and then work with their families to understand and address the barriers preventing their children’s attendance. If the problem is simply affordability, then we help by providing uniforms and books and negotiating fee waivers with schools.

However, in many cases the issues are more complex e.g. parents lacking any formal education, children’s negative experiences of school (bullying, lack of attainment, excessive discipline), a lack of belief in the value of education. Such cases require more intensive counselling and guidance to both the child and their family, provided via regular home visits, parent support group meetings and accompanied visits for parents to schools.

I would like to share with you the story of Pawan (not his real name) who left home to escape his alchoholic and violent father.  Whilst living on the streets Pawan collected scrap to survive and sniffed glue to avoid hunger pains. "Before I got support from Kidasha, I always wanted to sniff glue but now even the smell makes me feel sick" We identified Pawan's challenges and helped him using our case management system to come and live in our shelfter.  Pawans' life was dramatically transformed, and he started attending school. "I've improved myself and they enrolled me back into school and I started to go.  Initially I said I wouldn't study because I wasn't interested. But Miss said we should go to school.  After a while you make friends and you actually want to go.  It's now been nine months that I've being living in a positive way".

Please help us to get more children back into education which will help them transform their lives forever.

Many thanks for your support.

The Kidasha Team

I would like to share with you a recent case study about how one of our projects in Nepal has changed the life of Binita (not her real name) forever.

Binita is now 16 years old and was forced to drop out of school when she was just 12 to help support her family. At age 13 she moved to Pokhara to live and work in a small restaurant washing dishes. An outreach worker engaged in a Kidasha child labour reduction project, identified Binita and offered to help her attend informal learning classes delivered by the project in a local drop-in centre. Binita was initially reticent but was persuaded to join when she realised that she didn’t have to give up her job. Once Binita started to attend classes, the outreach worker lobbied her employer to allow her to work mornings and evenings so she could return to fulltime formal education. Once agreed, we provided a school uniform and other educational materials and enrolled Binita back in school, where she is now studying hard in Grade 8 and is one of the most motivated and bright pupils in her class.

With your generous support, we can reach more children and sadly there are many more that need our help.

Thank you so much deciding to support Kidasha.

Best wishes

The Kidasha Team