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Beneficiaries of
CWSN in 2011/12
ANNUAL REPORT 2011/2012
Direct Beneficiaries by Sectors
Direct Beneficiaries by Gender
Child Welfare Scheme Nepal
Janashakti Marg, Nayagaun
Pokhara - 15, Nepal
Post Box No.: 231
Tel: +977-61-432087, 432197, 202617
Email: childwelfareschemenepal@cwsn.org
URL: http://www.cwsn.org
zz Foreword01
zz About CWSN02
• Asha Health Care
• Early Childhood Care Education
• JYOTI Vocational Training Centre
zz Protection:
• JYOTI Street Project
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14
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zz Research26
zz Advocacy27
zz Human Resource Development28
zz Finance29
- Antenatal Care
AYH
- Asha Youth Health
CDK
- Children’s Development Khajana
CSO
- Civil Society Organisation
CWSN - Child Welfare Scheme Nepal
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zz Education:
ANC
DEO
- District Education Office
ECCE
- Early Childhood Care Education
ECD
- Early Childhood Development
JSP
- JYOTI Street Project
JVTC
- JYOTI Vocational Training Centre
JYOTI - Job Youth Opportunity Training Institute
NAOSC- National Alliance of Organisations for Street Children
NFE
- Non-formal Education
NGO
- Non Governmental Organization
PHC
- Primary Health Care Centre
SMC
- School Management Committee
SRH
- Sexual Reproductive Health
STD
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
VDC
- Village Development Committee
WRH
- Western Regional Hospital
Foreword
zz Health:
- Asha Health Care
CTEVT - Centre for Technical Education and Vocational Training
Acronyms
Contents
AHC I am pleased to present CWSN’s annual report
for the financial year 2011-2012. During the year,
we reached out to 21, 018 people through our
projects. Through our educational programme,
732 children and young people were benefitted.
Together with long-term residential vocational
training, we started short-term vocational
training. This enabled us to provide vocational
education to more young people. We are also
planning to pilot a new early education project in
2012/13 which will help us to reach out to more
children in future. Through our Asha Health
Care, we delivered primary health care services
including health education to a remarkable
number (19,472) of disadvantaged people. Our
JYOTI Street Project (JSP) provided protection
and development services to 814 highly
vulnerable street and working children. As a part
of our advocacy initiative, we are implementing
a project on child rights advocacy. Through the
project, we conducted capacity building activities
(e.g. project management and fundraising training
and conducting communication and advocacy
campaigns) for likeminded organisations. We
also consulted stakeholders across development
regions to identify their training needs and local
issues on child rights. We are also carrying out
a research on the Situation of Children in Nepal
which will be completed soon. In sum, we
successfully accomplished the planned activities
during the year.
It is my pleasure to inform you that government
has duly recognised our works. District
Public Health Office Kaski awarded us with an
appreciation letter for our quality health care
services in the district. Likewise, one of the ECD
facilitators of CWSN was awarded by the District
Education Office (DEO) Kaski as one of the
best ECD facilitators in the district for the year
2011/12. We are really happy to achieve these
milestones.
On behalf of CWSN, I would like to extend my
sincere gratitude to all of our stakeholders and
funding partners who helped us to accomplish
the activities and actions detailed in this report. It
enabled us to move towards bringing a sustainable
change in the lives of the most disadvantaged
children, young people and their families in our
working areas.
Devendra Gurung
Chairperson,
Annual Report 2011/12
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About CWSN
Mission -
To enable disadvantaged children and
young people in Nepal to realize their
potential and take advantage of their
opportunities in order to become selfreliant adults, through ensuring their
rights to life, health, education, protection,
family, identity, opinions, equality and
play.
Goal -
C
hild Welfare Scheme Nepal is a child-centred NGO that aims to improve
the lives of the most poor and marginalised children and young people
in Nepal through improved health, education and social opportunities.
It operates mainly at the grassroots level with young people, their families
and their communities in order to help them to achieve lasting changes,
recognizing their involvement at every level. CWSN works in Kaski and
Lamjung districts in the western region of Nepal.
CWSN envisions a society that respects the right and dignity of all its
children and young people.
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Every young person in our programmes
will experience positive outcomes that will
assist them to make a successful transition
to independent and fulfilling adult lives.
Objectives -
To provide quality primary health care services to disadvantaged
children and their families.
To provide education and skill-based (vocational) training to
socially marginalized children and young people.
To promote and uphold the rights of the child, as encompassed
by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
To build the capacity of local communities to participate in
development actions that will improve the quality of life for the
whole community in general and its children and young people
in particular.
To develop a strong, efficient, effective and sustainable
organization that enables children and young people to achieve
positive outcomes as a result of their participation in our
programmes.
Health
Advocacy
CWSN works in four cross-cutting areas
Education
Protection
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Reaching Out to More People in Need
Asha Health Care
H E A LT H
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Activities and Achievements
Outcome 1:
Increased access to primary health care for target communities and
marginalized groups.
During the reporting period, total curative services were used for
23,335 times against 7969 individual visits.
1,042 patients were benefitted by secondary level health care through
our referral channels in Pokhara.
CWSN and Kidasha conducted a key evaluation on Asha services in
the reporting year. In relation to access, the findings of the survey are:
Target Indicators
A
sha Health Care (AHC) provides essential primary health services to the children
and people from the most disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds. It
has five distinct but integrated sub-programmes that provide essential primary
and maternal health care to the poorest children, young people and women in rural
communities and urban slums. In addition to that, it also provides dedicated services to
the most vulnerable groups such as street-based and working children. AHC’s works are
directed towards addressing local and national needs in the context of international health
priorities specially those relating to the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child
mortality and improving maternal health. Responding to the changing needs of the target
groups, AHC is strategically moving towards preventive care and public health promotion.
Dressing of a Burn Case
Achieved (%)
Target
Street/
(%) Village Slum
working
% of known target populations have
had at least one contact with
programme
90.0
96.3
96.3
89.2
% of known target population view
the service positively
80.0
100.0
98.7
94.8
% of known target population state
awareness of where they can access
primary health care
90.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
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A Child taking ORS (Oral Rehydrated Solution)
Number of Interventions by Gender
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Sunita and Suresh’s Recovery Makes
Their Parents Happy
Sunita, 4 years old girl and Suresh, a boy of same age
from Gahate village (a village in Kaski district) came
to Asha Clinic with burn over their faces and hands.
After the accident their parents immediately applied
raw eggs over the affected parts and took them to the
local health centre for primary health treatment. When
their condition got worse, one of their school teachers
suggested them to go to the Asha Clinic. During the
examination, Sunita was found with 10 percent and
Suresh with 13 percent burn. The health workers
immediately started their treatment and advised them
to stay at Asha hostel for frequent consultation. After
seven-day medication and care, the burn was cured
leaving minimal scar. Their parents were happy seeing
the good results of treatment. So, they shared their
experience with the health workers saying, “It is hard
to believe that the severe burn was cured in a short
period. Your treatment and care was very good.”
Outcome 2:
A total of 33,703 people attended in the health education
and promotion activities provided at Asha Clinic and
outreach areas.
Asha assisted government’s immunization programme in
which 1,295 children were immunized.
Health Awareness Programme at Urban Outreach
A health education guide book was drafted during the year.
This guide book was made to provide health education for
the target community people in Pokhara and Lekhnath
municipalities.
The health workers identified 39 mothers groups in different
parts of Pokhara and nearby villages. They provided health
education to their representatives and were mobilized in
their own communities.
In relation to Outcome - 2, The findings of final evaluation
are as follows:
CWSN organised World Breastfeeding week 2012, for 7
days in coordination with District Public Health Kaski in
Pokhara. The main focus of the programme was to teach
mothers about the right way of breastfeeding and to
diminish the misconception that people have about it.
Apart from these, the programme also highlighted the
importance of exclusive breastfeeding and the harms
caused by inappropriate practices of breastfeeding. The
programme, facilitated by the staff of Asha Health Care,
District Public Health Office and the Shishuwa PHC,
became a relevant example showing mutual coordination
of Asha with other organisations. A total of 351 people
(female 317, male 34) attended the programme.
Providing Lito (Super Flour Porridge) to Children
Achieved (%)
Target
(%)
Village
Slum
% of households with knowledge
of appropriate care for child with
diarrhoea
90.0
93.6
96.3
% of children complete routine immunization schedule
90.0
100.0
99.6
% of babies exclusively breastfed
for first 6 months of life
90.0
46.0
44.7
Target Indicators
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Awareness on World Breastfeeding Week
Reduced vulnerability to common childhood illness &
diseases.
Immunizing a Newly Born Baby
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Outcome 3:
Reduced risks for women & newborn babies associated with
pregnancy and childbirth.
Outcome 4:
Reduced risk of sexual ill-health & vulnerability amongst young
people, street based & working children.
Asha delivered safe motherhood service to 10,447 women and
couples during the reporting period in which 1,849 were benefitted
with Antenatal Care (ANC) service only.
A total of 4,197 interventions were made by vulnerable young
people, street based and working children through Asha Youth
Health (AYH) services.
There were 7,322 attendances for the counseling/education sessions.
The number of attendance in health education activities was 1473.
During the year, 1,120 clients received family planning services.
AYH conducted a workshop on access to health care to street and
working children where 15 people from different organizations
participated. This advocacy was aimed to remove obstacles on access
to health care services at Government hospitals and private clinics
for street and working children and young people in Pokhara.
Asha referred 1,508 women to higher centres for secondary health
care service.
Counselling Service at Safe Motherhood clinic
The final evaluation of Asha showed:
Indicators
Groups
Target
(%)
Achieved
(%)
50% increase (calculated from baseline) in women offered support and
advice about care during pregnancy by a trained health worker*
Village
69.3
71.4
Slum
100.0
98.5
20% increase from baseline in % of women who had their last child or
are pregnant by choice
Village
98.4
100.0
Slum
82.6
100.0
As per the final evaluation of AHC, hearing about male condoms,
knowing preventive aspects of STDs (HIV/AIDS), full confidence
in condom use and negotiating undesired sex among street and
working youth were found increased.
Parvati’s Life was saved
Parvati Lama, 22 lives in Pokhara Bus Park and originally from a remote village in Makwanpur
district of Central Nepal. She got married in her early age of 15. A small cloth shop near Pokhara
Bus Park is the only source of income for her family of husband and 2 children. She delivered
her first two babies at home when she was below 20. When she first came to Asha Clinic she
had a 6 months’ pregnancy. At that time she had a number of health problems such as, anemia,
weakness, underweight and low hygiene. Even she was not able to walk properly. Asha provided
the supplements like calcium, iron, vitamins and vaccine and referred her to Western Regional
Hospital (WRH) for immediate admission. Gradually , her health condition got improved and she was able to deliver her third
child in the Hospital. She also regularly visited Asha for Postnatal Care checkup. Due to the counseling at the right time, both
the mother and the child were saved. She is thankful to Asha for saving her and the baby’s life.
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Health Education Sessions for
Disadvantaged Young People
Awareness Saved Bikram’s Life
Bikram, 15 is a street boy who came to
Pokhara 5 years ago from Gorkha (a district
in western Nepal). His mother left home as
father married to another woman. Then he
did not get a good care from his parents and
finally fled to street of Pokhara. He made his
living by collecting and selling scraps. One
day, a stray dog bit on his leg. Due to his
participation in different health awareness
programmes of Asha, he was well informed
about the risk of rabies. So, he immediately
consulted health workers of Asha. He also got
Rabies vaccine. Normally, street children are
indifferent to take injection but Bikram had it.
Proper health awareness led the boy to come
for the treatment on time that saved his life.
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Contributing Holistic Development of Children
Early Childhood Care Education
E D U C AT I O N
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Outcome 1:
Increased access of disadvantaged children to quality early
childhood education services.
A total of 578 children (boys 312, girls 266) were benefitted
during the reporting period 2011/12.
Out of total beneficiaries, 410 were from Kaski and 168 were
from Lamjung districts.
In terms of ethnic background, 196 (34%) were representing
from ethnic group.
Of the total benefitted, 168 were promoted to primary schools.
Eshan’s Amazing Attachment with ECD Centre
Eshan, son of Lal Subba and Nandasiri is a small child
of 3 years. Once he came to his maternal house in
Nagidhar. During his stay in his maternal home,
he was taken to Nagidhar ECD center for some
days. Interestingly the child enjoyed the care and
playing in the centre that he refused to return his
own house in the village where there was no ECD
center. Though the boy was very small, he mixes up
well with his friends and is always interested to do
the activities in the center. His mother said, “Eshan
does all the activities at home what he learns in
the ECD center. It makes us very happy. So, we
are leaving him with his maternal grandparents to
continue his learning in Nagidhar ECD center.” It is
really inspiring that the small kid of 3 year happily
left his parents to learn more in the ECD centre.
Beneficiaries by Gender
E
arly Childhood Care Education (ECCE) is a community based project. It provides care
and education services to the children of 2-5 years of age group in 4 Village Development
Committees (VDCs) of Kaski and Lamjung districts. The goal of the project is to contribute for
the holistic development of the disadvantaged children in the rural communities.
Learning through play-way method in a child-friendly environment is the main feature of ECCE. It is
also an wonderful example of the collaboration between community, NGO and the government. The
local management committee directly runs the centre and, CWSN provides training, monitoring and
partial financial support and the Government also provides some financial and technical supports.
A Child Playing with Building Blocks
Graduated Children by Gender
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Outcome 2:
Enhanced capacity and skills of Early Childhood Development
(ECD) facilitators.
Government Recognized Paru’s Effort
Altogether 31 facilitators of 14 ECD centres received 5 days initial
facilitators’ training. They learnt the roles of facilitators, play-way
method of learning for children and many more.
A total of 769 (304 Men, 465 Women) parents were benefitted
by Parental Orientation program.
Parents from 4 villages went to the Bhachowk ECD centre for
an exposure visit. They observed the centre and committed to
follow the best practices in their own centres.
A Pokhara based 2 days ECD refresher training was provided to
30 ECD facilitators. The objective of the training was to teach
thematic way of teaching and importance of stories, songs and
games for the children.
27 (13 male, 14 female) School Management Committee
(SMC) members, including 4 VDC secretaries and resource
persons participated in a 2 days workshop on sustainability of
the ECCE project.
Exposure visits to Pasgaun and Singdi ECD centres were
conducted to 4 newly appointed ECD facilitators.
One of our facilitators received the best facilitator award, 2011 in
Kaski District.
A total of 14 grade one teachers of Government Schools in
Bhachowk received ECD training provided by CWSN. The
training helped them to know about ECD so that they can have a
better child-friendly classrooms in their schools.
Art Session During Initial Facilitators Training
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Outcome 3:
To empower communities to run ECD centres independently
and contribute to sustainability of the ECCE project.
Paru Gurung has been working in the Warchok
Centre continuously for the last 16 years. We
have frequently talked and communicated about
her dedication towards the ECD centre. Ms Paru
has again made CWSN and its ECCE department
proud because of her deed. She received an
award from District Education Office (DEO)
as one of the best facilitators of the year
2011 in Kaski district. Her tireless work with
young children makes her happy. Despite her
good academic qualification, she never decided
to go in the city for other lucrative jobs but
determined to work for the young children in her
own village. After getting the award, she said,
“I am happy with the government recognition”.
CWSN congratulates Paru for her great
dedication and achievement.
During this reporting year, Lamtari ECD centre of Chhelang
was merged with the government school, which is a positive
sign of project being mainstreamed to government framework.
The responsibility of enrolling children has been transferred
to the community, from this reporting year.
Sita : An Exemplary Parent
Sita Gurung 33, mother of 2 children is one of the
active mothers in Bhachok ECD centre. She has become
the example care taker of her children and of the ECD
center as well. A housewife by status, she also gives
her time to run a small shop in her village. She has
helped the ECD centre in many ways. She brought up
both her children in the Bhachok ECD center and now
they are passed out of the centre. In those days, she
always made her children neat and tidy who were very
punctual coming to the centres. She is also well-known
for being the first mother helping facilitators to cook
snacks in the centre. Though Sita is no more a parent
of ECD center, her commitment towards the centre is
still there. She usually says, “Now due to the changing
scenario of education, children should speak in English
and they should be taught some English words as well”.
A Mothers’ Group Meeting on ECD Awareness
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Outcome 1:
Production of competent human resource by providing
vocational training to the deprived young people.
A total of 154 residential trainees were benefitted during
the reporting period.
Out of total 96 enrolled during the year, a significant
percentage (97.9%) of trainees completed the training.
A Route to Respect
JYOTI Vocational Training Center
E D U C AT I O N
A total of 96 trainees participated in the National level
skill test (accreditation by government) among which
76 (82%) were passed and certified.
An evaluation study on the status of Care Giver (CG)
graduates was conducted to assess the relevance of the
course in terms of job market. The finding showed job
and skills of most of the girls were not matching and
few did not have any job at all. The study suggested the
need of revision of CG Course.
J
YOTI Vocational Training Centre (JVTC) has been providing vocational training to the
young people from the most marginalised and disadvantaged backgrounds for the last 11
years. It provides them practical knowledge and skills through vocational trainings, life
skill development and general education programmes so as to help them to reintegrate into the
main stream society. The centre offers training on four trade skills namely Electrical and Solar,
Plumbing and Sanitation, Computer Secretarial and Care giver. The training courses are approved
and accredited by Centre for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT).
Baseline data of 10th batch trainees was recorded
during the reporting year. The information collected
will support to monitor their progress. The research
showed that, the trainees had low level of self-esteem
and inadequate knowledge on sexual health.
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Outcome 2:
Increased participation, awareness and self-esteem of the
trainees.
A Conflict Victim Boy Lives Independently
A total of 154 trainees were able to improve their health,
hygiene, social awareness, physical fitness and self-esteem.
During the reporting period, 147 counseling sessions on stress
management, anger management and positive thinking were
held.
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Viva Durin
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Social and Life Skill classes were conducted for 37 hours for 60
trainees of 10th batch.
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JVTC supported 79 trainees to receive their citizenship cards.
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“My miserable life turned into Bliss”
“I am Roshan of 21 years, an 8th batch electrical trainee. I was 17 when I came to JYOTI
Vocational Training Centre (JVTC). I was born in Bardiya district, the mid-west region of
Nepal. My parents died when I was a small child. My brother and my uncle looked after me
but the life was miserable due to poverty. Therefore, I started working as a domestic worker
in a landlord’s house. Fortunately, one day I came across a social organization called Base
Nepal that helped me to get admission at JVTC. Here I enjoyed learning skills and delighted
to have the caring hostel parents and social workers. The lessons were a bit difficult for me
at first but slowly I learnt them and passed the 2nd level skill test. Now, I have been working
as an electrician in Pokhara for last two years where I earn NPR 17,000 a month in average
with other facilities. I would like to thank JVTC and the donors who provided me with this
great opportunity.”
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A graduation programme for the 9th batch was conducted with
varieties of programmes such as blood donation, plantation
and cleaning campaign.
Plantation Programme on 9th Anniversary of JVTC
Ranjan is 22, a plumbing 9th batch graduate in JVTC
from Bhojpur (eastern Nepal) district. When he was
4, his mother died due to Tuberculosis. Then he was
brought up by his father with care and support. He
has 4 members in his family. Since his elder brother
was in Nepal Police, his family was beleaguered by
Maoist during insurgency. So, they left their village
and migrated to Jhapa (eastern district in Nepal).
With the help of one of his neighbours, he was able
to know about JVTC and finally selected for the
training. When he came here he was shy and spoke
very little. It was difficult for him to mix up with his
friends but soon became well adjusted and happy.
He was much happier learning the plumbing trade.
Once, he was able to involve in an eco project where
he creatively built a bicycle from polythene pipe.
Now, as a plumber, he earns NPR 12,000 per month.
He is very much thankful to JVTC for facilitating the
changes in his life.
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Award boosted up Ganga’s Confidence
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Trainees participat
Electrical Traine
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Visit
Care Giver Trainees in OJT
Cleaning Ca
mpaign in th
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Ganga 23 was born in Indrapur, a remote village in
Midwestern Nepal. She is an orphan who had miserable
childhood and so was cared by one of her relatives. She
was referred by the organization called Janajagaran Samaj
Banke, a local Non-governmental Organization. At the
time Ganga joined JVTC, she could not even write her
name and read properly. She was very happy learning skills
and to have a caring mother in her hostel. Ganga was an
obedient girl and good in all aspects. She was graduated
in care giver and now working in Hotel Temple Tree at
Lakeside, Pokhara. Besides extra benefits, she earns NPR
10,000 a month. Due to her wonderful performance at
her work, she was recently awarded with NPR 10,000 for
being the best housekeeper among her colleagues. As a
role model, the trade teacher at JVTC usually invites her
to take a class for her juniors. Her future plan is to run an
Early Childhood Development Center in her village.
Outcome 3:
Trained young people have opportunities to get employment.
During the reporting period, altogether 112 trainees were placed in the
job.
Similarly, out of 48 graduates from 9th batch, 46 (95.83 %) were employed.
Midway home services were used by 83 graduates.
9th batch trainees of plumbing and electrical trades were booked by
employers prior to graduation.
One of the Care Giver graduates of 8th batch has been awarded as the
best employee in her work place and got cash prize of NPR 10,000.
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A Plumbing Graduate on the Job
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JYOTI Street Project
Protecting and Reintegrating Children at Risk
PROTECTION
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Outcome 1:
Improved access of street children and young people in Pokhara
to basic rights.
The number of beneficiaries in JSP for this reporting year was
814 representing different backgrounds, of which 222 were
from street background.
Out of total 185 children who used the daily services, 82 used
night shelter facilities and 107 were benefitted from NFE
classes.
Children taking NFE Class
8 children were benefitted by legal supports like obtaining
citizenship card and birth certificate, and releasing from police
custody.
During the year, 22 children were referred to 5 different
organizations and 12 were reintegrated into their families.
154 children were benefitted by services such as health,
education and counselling in outreach areas.
Children Enjoying Sports at Contact Centre
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YOTI Street Project (JSP) works with street children, the most vulnerable and
marginalised groups of children in Nepal. It supports them to raise their voice and
change their situation by providing different services through day-time contact centre
and night shelter, Children’s Development Khajana (Children’s Bank), Child Journalism,
health and education services, family re-integration and many more. JSP provides services
in partnership with a local consortium of four organisations working for street and working
children, girl victims of sexual exploitation, and children at risk for their enrollment,
retention and progression in mainstream government education. The consortium approach
helps to avoid duplication and reach out to more children in need. Children are actively
involved in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project.
Children Participating in Gardening
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Shankar Decided to Live With Family
Shankar, a 13
year old boy
came on the
street all the way
from
Surkhet
(a town in Far
Western Region)
in 2009. Despite
he loved his
family members,
he left his home
because he could
not bear the physical punishment given by his
father, a retired army personnel. The main
reason for the punishment was to improve
his studies as he was studying in an English
medium school. He stayed at JSP for a couple
of months and was actively involved in daily
activities. He also got micro business coaching
at JSP and started a street business in the bus
park. He earned a good amount of money
(around NPR 3000) which he deposited in the
CDK. Slowly, he felt the need of the family and
started getting into touch with his mother.
One day he decided to return home. So, he
withdrew all his savings and bought new
clothes, MP3 and a guitar before he left for
home. Now, he has re-joined the school and
we found his wonderful progress during our
follow up.
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Outcome 2:
Increased capacities and capabilities of street children and young
people to protect themselves from abuse and harm to move on from
the street.
During the year, 88 children got education on Sexual and Reproductive
Health (SRH) and various life skills.
National Alliance of Organisations for Street Children (NAOSC,
alliance of organisations working for street children) provided
training for 2 staff for 12 days in two events on sexual health among
street, slum and working children.
17 children continued formal education with support from JSP.
Dashain
Tihar
Holi
Festival Celebration at JSP
Suresh Realized the Importance of Education
Suresh is 14, an exstreet
child
from
Pokhara. His father
works as a vegetable
seller, always busy in
his business and had
a step mother. Due to
lack of proper parental
care, he came on the
street when he was in
class 3. He learnt many
bad habits like smoking
and glue-sniffing from other street children.
Meanwhile, with the influence of other street
children he came into contact with JSP about 2
years ago. At JSP, he took Children’s Development
Khajana (CDK) training and became its regular
saver. He actively participated in extra-curricular
activities and built his confidence. Gradually, he
understood the value of money, so his saving was
always more than his withdrawal. Due to his active
involvement, he was first promoted to Assistant
Child Manager and Child Manager after one year.
He was impressed with some children from other
centres studying in the school and more active than
him. Therefore, he rejoined the school and now
studying in class 5 giving up all his bad habits. Now,
he lives with his parents and financially supports
them with the income from street business.
Outcome 3:
Street children and young people have opportunities to
gain vocational skills and secure employment.
8 children were given individual coaching on street
business in order to start a micro business.
The new CDK account holders became 137 reaching
1478 in total. Due to effective awareness activities and
classes CDK members were increased.
JSP facilitated 7 children to find the job.
88 children attended in life skill and different awareness
programmes.
CDK Management Team Taking Oath
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Outcome 4:
Street children and young people’s voices are heard
resulting in community, society and government at local
level responding to their issues.
600 copies of children’s newspaper “Balsrijana” were
published once and distributed among the children.
An Ex-street Boy
Monthly
es
Selling Vegetabl
During the reporting period, 10 monthly meetings
were held on child journalism.
Manage
ment Me
eting of
CD
K
Family Re-integr
ation
Sajan Found His Destiny at JSP
Sajan a 16 years old ex-street boy from Syangja (a district in western Nepal) came
to Pokhara when he was only 8. He was the youngest among his 5 siblings and
was studying in class one when he left his home. When his father got remarried,
his mother became alcoholic resulting in a poor economic condition. So, he came
on the street of Pokhara. He started rag picking and substance abusing habits
like glue-sniffing and smoking. He slept on the road and made peers of street
children. One day, in support of social worker, he came to JSP through outreach
program. He started taking all the basic services along with Non-Formal Education
and life skill classes at JSP for 5 years. After a number of counseling, he decided to
leave the street and stop abusing substances. JSP staffs also helped him to get the
birth certificate, citizenship card and a job in an auto workshop with an attractive
salary. Due to his good behaviour and sincerity at work, he became one of the
favourite workers in his company. Praising his performance, one of his colleagues
commented, “Sajan is very sincere and careful at his work”.
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Monthly Meeting of Child Journalism
Sabina Enhanced Her Confidence Through
Child Journalism
Sabina Thapa an 18 year
old girl lives in Pokhara,
who came all the way
from
Okhaldhunga
(district in eastern Nepal).
After her mother’s second
marriage, she has been
living with her father, step
mother and 3 siblings. Her
father works as a wage
labourer. She could not
afford for her education
after 8th standard due to
the economic hardship. But, she was acquainted with
JSP through the school support programme for 5 years
and continued her study from 8th to 10th standard. In
the beginning, she got the child journalism training
and actively involved in the activities like getting
news materials and articles for the child newspaper.
Besides, she worked as a secretary, editor and
advisor of Child Journalism. The programme helped
her developing many qualities like leadership, news
writing, giving speech and much more. She also gives
feedback to her colleagues in her free time. Studying
in grade 11, Sabina also works as a helper in a hotel
and provides economic support to her family too.
She says that she uses her skills learnt from the child
journalism at her daily work.
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A
Another research was the evaluation of care
giver trade and level of understanding of the
ex-trainees. The report showed that most of
the care giver ex-graduate girls were not doing
their skill related work and few were jobless.
The research indicated the need of revision in
Care Giver course.
We also conducted a baseline survey of the
newly enrolled JVTC 10th batch trainees. This
research helped to record baseline information
related to their self-esteem, life skills and
knowledge on sexual health. The study revealed
that they had lower level of self-esteem and the
life skill status. Likewise, the knowledge about
condom and its use was also found poor among
young boys and girls.
Advocacy
Research
D
uring the period, we conducted three
researches in order to monitor and
evaluate the programmes. The first one
was the final evaluation of Asha Mobile Hope
project. We carried out survey in 3 outlying
slum villages and 4 Village Development
Committees of Kaski and Lamjung districts.
The external evaluation of the project showed
that there were significant improvements in
people’s health seeking behaviour because
of the project interventions and other socioeconomic factors of the catchment area. Despite
this, further improvement is required on breast
feeding practices of mothers. Besides, we also
conducted interview with street and working
children which showed that there is still room
for development in sexual behaviour of street
and working children and young people.
s part of its advocacy programme,
Within the framework of the project CSACRSA,
CWSN has been developing its network
CWSN has created a national alliance of the
at local, national and international level.
organizations working for child rights, a loose
Consortium for Working and Street Children
network of around 70 grassroots NGOs. During
and National Alliance of Organization for Street
the reporting year, CWSN successfully conducted
Children (NAOSC) are the local and national
various
trainings
(Project
Management,
level networks to which CWSN is a member. At
Fund-raising, Communication and Advocacy
international level, CWSN is one of the active
Campaign) to build the capacity of the national
members of South
a l l i a n c e
Asian Alliance of
members; carried
Grassroots NGOs
out Stakeholder
(SAAGN). CWSN
Survey
with
is also one of the
Te a c h e r s ,
partners of an
Trade
Union
initiative
action
Members, Legal
called Civil Society
Professionals,
Alliance for Child
Media Persons,
Rights in South
Police and Local
Asia (CSACRSA)
Self-Government
which is being
Fu nc t i on ar i e s .
implemented
in
Similarly,
a
Participants of an Advocacy Training
the five countries
regional meeting
of South Asia.
of the project
Financed by the European Union, the project aims
implementing partners was also organized for the
to contribute to the creation of regional spaces of
local partners. Besides, a country research on the
cooperation among civil society organizations
Situation of Children in Nepal has been carried
(CSOs) in the region to protect and promote
out and the project team has been preparing
child rights. To this end, the project intends to
the Training Manuals (Readers) for child rights
strengthen the capacity of the CSOs to become an
training for different stakeholder groups.
effective network for defending child rights.
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Staff by Gender
W
e are grateful to our funding
partners for their valuable
financial support to run our
organization. During the reporting year
2011/12, our income was NPR 42,715,335
and our total expense was NPR 38,233,366.
We worked hard to ensure the fund we
Training Details
Topic / Theme of Training
No. of
Participants
Harm Reduction and Management of Medical Wastage
1
Japanese Encephalitis Orientation
3
Orientation on HIV/AIDS
2
Sexual Health of Street and Working/Slum children
6
Child Friendly Local Governance Orientation/Workshop
2
Child Rights Training
1
Child Sexual Abuse Training
2
Flexible Schooling Program/NFE Teacher Training
2
Orientation on Street Children Data Bank
2
Psychosocial Counseling Training
1
Rehabilitation of children and Referral Mechanism
1
Exposure visit to Auroville in Chennai, India
2
Centre/Shelter Management
2
Others
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received from our funding partners is
utilized efficiently and effectively to support
our projects and to bring lasting change in
the lives of thousands of children, young
people and their families in Nepal. We
would like to thank our funding partners
and supporters for the valuable supports.
Finance
Human Resource Development
C
WSN puts great emphasis on
improving the skills and efficiency
of our staff to reach their full
potential. Based on the training need
assessments, a total of 25 staff of our
organisation got 13 basic and advance
trainings during the reporting year.
Assessment showed that training helped
the staff to develop their skill. We would
like to extend especial thanks to all the
trainers and experts who provided us the
training.
Income by Source
Expense by Projects
Expense by Sectors
A Training on Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse
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