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Children's Home for Girls
The Girls' Home is currently providing a place to live for 12 orphaned or abandoned girls and it not only gives them a safe and secure place to grow up but also ensures that all the girls have access to healthcare as well as a good education. During 2010 five of the girls, who have been resident at the home for a number of years, have taken, and been successful in, the School Leaving Certificate (SLC), one of the most important milestones in a student's academic life. The SLC is normally taken at about age 16 (although earlier for the most capable students).
Unfortunately the Home is unable to continue to provide accommodation and support for girls once they have reached this stage in their lives. This leaves the girls in a vulnerable position as they may have no family to return to and uncertain job propects.
In August 2010 The Street Children of Nepal Trust (SCON) arranged with RUWDUC, who runs the home, that we will continue to support these five girls through the next two years of their education to enable them not only to gain further qualifications and experience but also to improve their work prospects. It is hoped that in the future SCON will be able to offer similar support to other girls who are currently at the Home.
Many thanks to all SCON's supporters for enabling us to take on this new project and give girls and young women hope of a very much brighter future.
Above Photo: Workers distributing the food parcels
The Mobile Food Unit
The mobile food unit, popularly known as Jaya Bal Bhojan, distributes meals to around 250 homeless children in Kathmandu on one day every week. Every Saturday Dr. Suddha Rauniya, the founder of this mobile service, and his small team travel around key locations in the city where street children are most likely to be found and give out food packets. These meals are high in nutritional value and try to cater to the tastes of the children.
The mobile service was initiated several years ago and since August 2008 has been supported by The Street Children of Nepal Trust. Dr. Rauniya and his team also run The Children’s Food Programme which provides up to two hot meals every day for between 40 and 60 street children at a fixed location in Kathmandu.