Street Child Nepal Project

IN AID OF http://www.street-child.co.uk

STREET CHILD NEPAL PROJECT - SCHOOL FOR TOMORROW

TAIWAN EVENING WITH H.E. Mr DANIEL T C LIAO - TAIWAN REPRESENTATIVE TMIS

SPECIAL THANKS TO;

H.E MR D T C LIAO,

TAIWAN COMMUNITY IN STOCKHOLM

SELECT COLLECTION

SVENSKT TENN

Everyone enjoyed the Taiwan evening and supported the most vulnerable children -

Musahar cast (untouchables) in Napal.

Street Child was founded in 2008 in Sierra Leone by Tom Dannatt and its valuable work for vulnerable children started there and expanded in to 10 countries by 2013. Street Child’s aim, first and foremost is to support vulnerable and marginalized children. 

Their mission is to empower the world’s most vulnerable children and enable them to build themselves a sustainable future by identifying and addressing the issues that are preventing or barriers to educational opportunity and an independent future, as education is the number one priority for lifting people out of poverty.

Street Child supports; child Protection, Livelihoods, education and children in emergency situations.

IPS chose to support the Street Child project in Nepal;

Street Child’s Nepal projects, started in 2015 following a devastating  earthquake, since when they have supported the construction of building learning centers, hygiene facilities, toilets and sanitary facilities and building of wells.

Street Child has also trained teachers in different subjects.

Since 2018, Street Child has reached out to one of the most remote regions in Nepal and launched an ambitious program for the most vulnerable marginalised members of the Musahar Caste; in other word the untouchables.

They are unfortunately, a politically marginalized, economically exploited and socially excluded caste group in Nepal. Mushar women and girls are 100% out of school after the age of 10, owing to their untouchable status.

Born as a Mushar, they are almost 99% (according to Field report from the Sc) landless and trapped as bonded labor (a form of modern slavery) and excluded from education and employment.

If the girls are literate they are forced into early marriage and bonded labor to pay off the family’s debts.

In Steet Child’s remote regions the Mushar program or project involves supporting 3000 girls and helping them escape from this vicious cycle of debt bondage by giving them access to education and employment.

IPS is supporting "Breaking the bonds", Mushar project, to train 20 local Nepalese social workers. They will then take 30 girls under each social worker’s wing and provide vital social support for 600 vulnerable girls.