Nepal Day Community

There are around 11.6 million children under the age of 18 in Nepal. The number of children without parental care, or at risk of losing such care, is increasing. There are various reasons for this rise including the recovery from the recent earthquake and landslides, the political unrest, the high rate of poverty and the spread of HIV/AIDS. According to a UNICEF study, the most vulnerable children in Nepal include those with disabilities, those living in violent and abusive families, street children and those involved in child labour. It is estimated that around 34 percent of children between the ages of five and 14 are forced to work.

Children are even more unprotected after the earthquake. Many have lost parental care and are struggling to survive alone. In addition, according to reports, children especially girls, are more at risk from human traffickers who take advantages of the despair and chaos to force children into unpaid labour, including commercial sexual exploitation. Forty-two percent of the population in Nepal is under 18 years of age, making investments in children and adolescents especially important in shaping national development. Nepal has made remarkable progress in the last 40 years. In 1970, Nepal had the 12th highest Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in the world where 250 infants out of 1000 died before they turned one. By 2010, only 48 infants out of every 1000 born were dying and Nepal had moved ahead of 50 other countries to reduce IMR rates by one-fifth.

In the 70s, one out of every fourth child born every year died before their fifth birthday. By 2010, that statistic had been dramatically reduced and less than 34,000 children out of a total of 730,000 births nationwide, died before turning five. Also, no new case of polio has been detected since 2010 and Nepal was declared polio-free in 2014. Only 1 out of every 4 school-aged children went to primary school then. Today, more than 90 percent of children (including girls) are enrolled in primary school. Also worth noting is that the country is on track to meet its Millennium Development Goals on drastically reducing under-5 and maternal mortality.

Nevertheless, Nepal ranks 157 out of 187 countries in the 2011 Human Development Index. Only seven out of ten children enrolled in grade 1 in Nepal’s schools reach grade 5, and more than half of them drop out of the school before reaching the lower secondary level. Approximately 620,000 children aged 5-17 are engaged in hazardous work while some 13,000 girls are being sexually exploited in Kathmandu. Nepal Dail Community is a Non-Governmental Organization working among the poor Nepalese children was registered at District Administration Office, Bhaktapur, Nepal in 2064 BS (2008 AD). Since 2008 Nepal Dail Community has been serving daily one time meal to the poor Nepalese children at Manohara slum area located at Bhaktapur District of Nepal in the southern part of Tribhuvan International Airport of Kathmandu.

Nepal Dail Community is feeding 300 to 500 poor Nepalese children in Manohara slum every morning. Not only this but also Nepal Dail Community has started a orphanage project since 2017 at Dolalghat village of Kavrepalanchwok District of Nepal with the objective to help poor and helpless Nepalese children in the near future. Beside this, Nepal Dail Community is providing afternoon lunch to 250 students of Shree Bal Sahara Primary School of Kaski District of Nepal located at the Prithvichwok slum.

These are only known social works activities of Nepal Dail Community but there are other hidden truths about the activities in Nepal by the same organization. Right after the earthquake broke in Nepal in 2015, Nepal Dail Community had sent and provided relief in various parts of Nepal especially in the most affected District called Sindhupalchwok where the organization had sent disaster relief and also distributed necessary medicines to the earth quake victims. Nepal Dail Community is providing skill oriented training like sewing and stitching which helps the single women and widows to be self supported and will help the poor, single and widowed women to generate some income so that they could make their daily living cost.

Another remarkable work of Nepal Dail Community is conducting Hope School in Manohara slum which gives hope to the downtrodden and street children by providing them free informal education, food and educational materials and other necessary stuffs. And also the organization provides one to one support for education to the poor and helpless children of Nepal. Moreover Nepal Dail Community also provides menstruation pads to the adult women and girls so that they could be aware of their health issues.