Protect & Inspire Street Connected Children, Nepal

Dear Supporter

Driven from home by family breakdown, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, conflict, natural disaster or simply poverty, many Nepali children end up on the streets, scavenging, begging and selling themselves to survive.  We provide these children with safe shelter, counselling and advice to deal with their trauma and help them to return to school and a more normal childhood.  We also work to improve the situations of families in crisis to prevent children being forced onto the streets.

Over the last year we have continued  to reduce the abuse and exploitation of neglected and vulnerable children and have helped them move out of crisis situations in Pokhara.  Our core child protection services have worked with 3236  at risk children.  We have worked directly in the workplaces and with employers to help improve working conditions for these extremely vulnerable children.  In Pokhara our work over the last five years has helped reduced the number of child labourers under the age of 14 years of age by 73%.

Without your support, we could never have achieved what with have.  However, there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done, so please do give generously so we can reach more vulnerable children.

Thank you.

The Kidasha Family

Thank you for supporting our Protect and Inspire Street Children in Nepal.

It is estimated  that there are around 5000 children living on the streets in Nepal.  Almost two thirds of these children will have been spending time living on the streets since the age of ten, or younger. Street children will most likely have been pushed out of their homes by violence, parental poverty or family breakdown.

On the street, these children face further abuse, including from tourists and the police. Despite being victims of circumstance and existing in the worst conditions, street children are treated as less than human and are often spat on, beaten, and called derogatory names.

Four in five of these children will turn to solvent abuse as a way to cope with the trauma of living on the street. They collect rubbish and rags, or beg, in order to earn money to survive. These children exist within a cycle of poverty and abuse – unable to get proper, paid work, they will continue to suffer from addiction, abuse and psychological trauma, and many will die young.

Here at Kidasha, we are working to break this cycle. Our work is not just about getting these children off the streets, but also facilitating their recovery, teaching them valuable skills, and preventing them from ever having to return to this way of life. We also work directly with families to put an end to the conditions which force children out of their homes and onto the streets.

Without your  support, we wouldn't be able to do this life-changing work in Nepal.  So on behalf of the children we work with - A big thank you.

Best wishes

The Kidasha Team