Nepal & Bhutan | Annual Report 2010
Save the Children
ECD Facilitator Goma teaching children at Seto Gurans Bal Batika early childhood development center in Baglung. Save the Children currently supports 28,00 early childhood development centers in 33 district in Nepal. Photo: Keshab Thoker Front Cover Photo: Neha, Saraswati, Rejina, Binod, and Sandhya participated in a Save the Children-supported Healing and Education through Art (HEART) program in Baglung district. Photo: Keshab Thoker Š Save the Children
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Twins Ganga and Januma at an Mangaltar early childhood development center in Kavre Photo: Brent Stirton
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Content
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Country DirectorÂ’s Message
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Our Programs
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Child Rights Governance
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Child Protection
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Education
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Health and Nutrition
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HIV and AIDS
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Emergency
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Livelihood
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Bhutan Program
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Resources and fundraising
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Our Partners
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Events 2010
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Sumitra brought her two months old daughter Mahima suffering from Pnuemonia to Neulapur health post in Bardiya for treatment
Country Director s Message It is with great pleasure that Save the Children presents this year s public report on our activities for the Nepal and Bhutan program for 2010. It has indeed been an exhilarating experience for me to be involved in this program for my first full year here in Nepal. I have seen our program grow both in the size and scope as well as in our ability to monitor and track our progress towards better quality programs. Professionally and personally it has been quite a positive experience here in Nepal. The credit for the results we achieved in 2010 extends to very competent and dedicated professionals both within our Save the Children team, our partners, stakeholders and supporters. My interaction with people here have given me great hope that the challenges that we face together in the further development of Nepal, and especially the challenges to guarantee the rights of Nepali children, will be overcome in the medium term if not sooner. Although I have felt as many others certainly have, that political progress is too slow and I question why we are not further along, I still am confident that we are moving in a positive direction. Although interaction with our staff and Nepali society gives me hope, what gives me the greatest inspiration is listening to children. I recall this past year having participated in the National Girl-Child consultation organized by some of our organizational counterparts. In that interaction, I was inspired by the work that girls were doing in their communities to fight against early child marriage, child labor, child trafficking and other
issues affecting them. I saw confidence and dedication and I heard challenging questions and demand for action from them. For a moment, I imagined a few years into the future, where these girls will be national leaders speaking on these and other issues. My message to these girls was that, although progress is being made today in Nepal regarding children s rights, this progress will be accelerated when they themselves exercise their voice they are the key to the breakthroughs that we all want to see. Save the Children in Nepal and Bhutan is consolidating its efforts under Save the Children International as a more effective and efficient voice for children in 2011. We will continue to work with our civil society and government partners to do more and better for children and we take transparency and accountability to our donors, partners, and most of all, children, seriously. I want to thank all of our Save the Children members and donors, our national counterparts, and staff who have helped to make the successes of 2010 a reality and who will continue to work with us in 2011. Thank you and the very best to all in 2011.
Brian J. Hunter Country Director Nepal & Bhutan Program Annual Report 2010
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Our Programs Save the Children country program in Nepal and Bhutan saw the rolling out of the Country Strategic Plan (2010-2013) during the reporting period 2010. Programs reached and benefitted 2.2 million (2,220,914) children through seven thematic interventions. Nine hundred and ninety four thousand and nine hundred and nine (994,909) children directly benefited from programs under education, health, protection, livelihood, HIV and AIDS, emergency and child rights governance while more than1.2 million children indirectly benefited from our programs. Adults benefiting from programs accounted for more than 1.75 million. Resources from 65 grants were mobilized through 112 partner NGOs in 59 districts in the five geographic regions. The Program Advisory Committee which comprises representatives of various ministries and government departments termed program initiatives by Save the Children as need and demand based; achieving results due to the acceptance of local communities. To be more engaging with stakeholders to benefit and leverage greater impact for children both directly and through policy change, Memorandum of Understandings were reached with the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare and UNICEF.
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On policy issues, we advanced our advocacy through the network of Children as Zones of Peace (CZOP) and the Consortium of organizations working for child participation. The country program also rolled out the three year strategic partnership with the Royal Norwegian Embassy. In addition to regular programs, new initiatives rolled out were the Food Security Initiative to reduce vulnerabilities of children to soaring food prices and food insecurity and improving nutrition for mothers and children. Likewise, the micro-health insurance project and Youth Save Project were two innovative and research based initiatives started as pilot schemes. A yearlong internship program for on the job opportunities for marginalized youths to groom them for the job market was also initiated. In addition, partner NGOs at the local level undertook five innovative initiatives. The country program also made headway in its engagement with the private and corporate sector. The country program received national and international media attention. The BBC broadcasted Invisible Lives, a documentary shot in Bardiya; examining NepalÂ’s progress in saving newborn lives and progress towards Millennium Development Goal four.
Nine hundred and ninety four thousand and nine hundred and nine (994,909) children directly benefited from program under education, health, protection, livelihood, HIV and AIDS, emergency and child rights governance while more than1.2 million indirectly benefited from our programs. Similarly, the Seoul Broadcasting Station profiled in Korea the visit by a Korean professor (who was a SC sponsored child in Korea in the 40s) to his sponsored child in Siraha. The country program was successful in mobilizing US$ 16.74 million, which was an increase of 9.34 percent compared to 2009. Twenty-three new grants were secured while programs under18 grants were completed. Expenditure in relation to resources mobilized was 94 percent. The largest investment was in education followed by emergency and HIV and AIDS. Non-program expenditure accounted for 8 percent of the country budget.
Children and Adults Direct Reach Thematic Area
Children
Child Protection Education Health and nutrition HIV and AIDS Livelihoods Child Rights Governance Emergencies Gross total Double count adjustment Actual people reached
Adults
Total
86,240 507,214 76,237 20,826 61,379 145,818 190,635
43,476 127,805 65,269 76,344 67,702 31,581 257,642
129,716 635,019 141,506 97,170 129,081 177,399 448,277
1,088,349 93,440
669,819 33,530
1,758,168 126,970
994,909
636,289
1,631,198
Children and Adults Indirect Reach Thematic Area
Children
Adults
Total
172,476 593,503 183,280 17,852 117,941 261,908 3,087
102,558 437,965 107,196 200,587 90,042 188,421 6,338
275,034 1,031,468 290,476 218,440 207,983 450,329 9,425
Gross total Double count adjustment
1,350,047 124,042
1,133,107 20,136
2,483,155 144,178
Actual people reached
1,226,005
1,112,971
2,338,977
Child Protection Education Health and nutrition HIV and AIDS Livelihoods Child Rights Governance Emergencies
Financial expenditure Education Health and Nutrition
8%
Child Rights Governance
8%
Child protection 36%
10%
Emergencies HIV and AIDS Livelihoods Non-programmatic
18% 7% 9%
4%
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Child Rights Governance Save the Children submitted children specific report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva for the Universal Periodic Review of Nepal and lobbied for the inclusion of child specific recommendations to Nepal in the Council s outcome document. We also supported and facilitated the preparation of supplementary reports on the Optional Protocols to the CRC on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts. Our engagement with the government along with other key child rights organizations resulted in an increment of 44 percent budget allocated to the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare. Together with other development partners, agreement was reached to support the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, committing to fund resources for a Child Rights Officer in each of the 75 districts by 2015. Our partnership with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was renewed to give continuity to our mandate to make the State more accountable towards children with reference to policies and legislations and to further strengthen the monitoring of child rights situation in Nepal. An example underpinning the partnership was the call by the Commission to the government to enact the School Child Protection Policy to protect children in the learning and teaching process. Save the Children supported and facilitated the drafting of a National Framework for Children and Young People s Participation. Facilitating participation of children was a core area of our
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Children living and working at a brick factory in outskirts of Kathmandu also go to school and attend flexible classes after school to help them through lessons
intervention and ran across all thematic programs. In Save the Children working area, membership in child clubs increased by 8.5 percent compared to 2009, further ensuring children s participation at different stages of program implementation. Child participation in school management was encouraging; we were impressed with complaint boxes and provisions to discuss complaints between children and the school administration every week, Program Advisory Committee reported following an observation visit in December 2010. To bring children s issues to public attention, a media engagement program was initiated at central and regional level in partnerships with district chapters of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists. The programme also worked on capacity building of journalists on child sensitive reporting and child rights. The delay in the constitution making process and political volatility affected advocacy on the finalization of a number of children related acts and policies, namely the Child Rights Act. Routine political engagement included interaction and debate with the Child Rights Parliamentary Forum to advocate for incorporating children related recommendations omitted in the constitution drafting process, particularly the provision of a Child Rights Commissioner within the National Human Rights Commission. A budget analysis of the government s allocation and expenditure on children was initiated which will be used as a basis for lobbying and advocacy with the government as well as parliament to increase resource allocation for children.
Children and Adults Direct Reach Thematic Area
Children
Adults
Total
Strengthening National Systems (duty bearers) Building Awareness and Capacity Other Child Rights Governance:
317 138,211 7,290
353 30,991 237
670 169,202 7,527
Gross Total Double count adjustment
145,818 1,834
31,581 4,094
177,399 0
Actual people reached
145,818
31,581
177,399
If you see the whole spectrum of participation, children should not be used even at the lowest level. In think in a situation like in Nepal and others, children are not engaged for participation (related to children) but they are used for political interest. I think that is a social crime to use children, it s also a moral crime to use children for political gain. Prof. Yanghee Lee, Chairperson UNCRC during a visit to the country office.
NHRC and Save the Children representatives sign an agreement to strengthen policies and monitoring of child rights situation in Nepal
Children from seven countries from Asia participated in Looking Forward: Building Peace workshop in Nepal in May 2010
Ramesh s Protection Prime Minister acts Ramesh goes to one of the elite private schools in Nepal. He is enrolled at Little Angles School in Kathmandu in grade five. His single father was a rickshaw puller working in a local school making a meager 2,300 rupees a month (US$30). After Ramesh s mother left six years ago, his father was left alone to bring up Ramesh. Tragically, on 25 August Bhagawan committed suicide because he felt he could not pay the debt of15,000 rupees (US$200) which was slapped on him for the computer that was reportedly stolen by 12-year-old Ramesh but which was returned to the owner. The pressure for compensation on Bhagwan, the ordeal Ramesh was put through; being held hostage by the owners of the computer institute from where the computer was stolen made headlines in the media. Save the Children and its partner CWIN acted promptly the very day the news was reported, ensuring there was no further damage to Ramesh. The follow up media coverage drew the attention of the Prime Minister and had Ramesh flown to Kathmandu; committing to take care of Ramesh s education at Little Angeles. Ramesh has acclimatised well into his new school and is making new friends said his maternal uncle who visited him. The school and our partner CWIN are constantly monitoring his progress and development.
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Child Protection Following the official release of “Verified Minors” from cantonment in January, Save the Children supported 82 minors, giving them the opportunity and facilitating their return to school. We facilitated rehabilitation programs with government and UNICEF. Similarly, 3,496 children affected by armed conflict were supported as part of the reintegration program. The minors were given a choice from a range of rehabilitation packages, which included educational support, vocational training and micro enterprise development skills. Despite the release of all former minor combatants, children continue to be vulnerable to abuse against the backdrop of the history of political parties’ use of children to support political agendas. Political rhetoric and commitment did not reflect reality with children being mobilized during strikes and closure of schools. We were able to send more girls (84 percent in our three program districts) to schools and continuing their education during their menstruation cycle. In particular children were challenging the Chhaupadi practice by staying within their homes and also attending schools1. The Supreme Court in 2005 ordered the government to declare the practice as an evil and asked it to stamp out the practice. Collaboration with the government to address this harmful traditional practice was the agreement with the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare to end Chhaupadi in Doti, Achham and Bajura districts. Similarly, we collaborated with the Ministry, signing an agreement to strengthen the
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Young girl and a boy from Saptari reviewing UN CRC as part of Peace, Human Rights and Civic Education training
District Child Welfare Board (DCWB) and Village Child Protection Committees in 27 districts. The anti-Child marriage campaign, started in 2009 in Surkhet was operational in 7 districtsSunsari, Siraha, mugu, Kalikot, Bajura, Kapilvastu, and Surkhet. The highlight of the year was the landmark district court decision against child marriage in Surkhet district in January 2010. The court ruling implicated the parents and the priest who performed the marriage ceremony of a 13-year-old girl with an adult and imprisoned them for three months with a symbolic fine of one thousand rupees each. The ruling on the case, filed by our partner NGO Safer Society and District Child Welfare Board is the first judgment of its kind in Nepal and will be a showcase to legally challenge the practice of child marriage in the future. The fight against child marriage by child clubs and children was very visible; at times stopping marriage ceremonies. Working with partners and child clubs, some thirty possible marriages were stopped in our campaign districts. Child participation was very encouraging with child led advocacy against the practice initiated in two districts. Our partnership with Children-Women in Social Service and Human Rights resulted in successfully advocating with the Police Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs to incorporate child protection curriculum in all police training courses. And working with DCWB in Kailali and Achham, we set up a database of identified vulnerable children and referral support mechanism. 1
Chhaupadi is a social tradition in the western part of Nepal which prohibits a woman from participating in normal family activities during menstruation because they are considered impure. During this period, women are forbidden to touch men and enter the courtyard of their own homes
Children and Adults Direct Reach Children
Adults
Total
Children Without Appropriate Care Violence Against Children in Armed Conflict Protect Against Physical and Humiliating Punishment Protect Against Harmful Child Labour Children Sexually Abused and Exploited Harmful Traditional Practices Program against Child Trafficking
2,128 7,480 4,340 16,136 40,975 16,779 1,073
2,099 3,907 669 6,257 14,761 19,703 376
4,227 11,387 5,009 22,393 55,736 36,482 1,449
Gross Total Double count adjustment
88,911 2,980
47,772 4,296
136,683 7,276
Actual people reached
85,931
43,476
129,407
The women outlined tradition, superstition, malpractice and patriarchy as reasons for why Chhaupadi is still practiced. The political leaders in Janali Bandali VDC in Achham district have been part of declaring the VDC as a Chhaupadi-free zone. This has been a step-by-step process. Ms Line Djernæs Sandbakken, Intern from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Children protect children
Police officers in Surkhet express commitment to make the district free of child marriage
Children protect children Janaki was only thirteen when her family arranged a marriage for her with a 17-year-old boy from her village. After the wedding, she went to live with her husband s family and gave up school as she had to take care of cattle, cooking, cleaning and helping with the farm. In April 2010, as part of an effort to bring all school-age children to school, a community child club organized door-to-door school enrollment campaign in Janaki's village. The child club members met Janaki who was washing pots in the front yard. Though Janaki was initially reluctant to tell them about her situation, she shared with them the reasons for not going to school. The child club immediately met with her parents and her in-laws requesting them to send her to school. The family didn t agree. The child club didn t give up. They went to her house repeatedly trying to convince her husband s family. After many attempts, they succeeded. Now, Janaki is enrolled in grade six and also takes care of household chores. Janaki says, I hope parents do not force their children to get married early. Married girls like me have to face so many problems like not being able to go to school. Save the Children has been working with children to empower them to protect themselves from violence, abuse, exploitation, discrimination and neglect through community structures like child club. On a similar note, children from child clubs of Nocha of Morang district have actively started working on stopping child marriage with the help of the parent s group and through awareness campaigns. They were able to stop three child marriages in 2010.
Children at a child club training in Saptari
Priests in Surkhet sign commitment for campaign against child marriage in Surkhet.
Thematic Area
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Education In the last one decade, Nepal has made significant progress on sending school age children to school with over 94 percent children enrolled in primary schools. This, however, also means about 6 percent children are still out of school. As the country nears its goal of 100 percent enrolment, Save the Children continued to focus on ensuring children in school receive quality education and bring those not in school inside the classroom. Save the Children worked in 33 districts to ensure early learning opportunity for children based on the belief that foundations of healthy and happy life have to be laid down early in life. Almost 43 percent early childhood development (ECD) centers in our working areas met minimum standards set by the government. Linkages were set with government mechanism to provide health services to over 68 percent ECD age children. As an innovative test, Save the Children is running home based ECD centers in six districts - Accham, Bajura, Doti, Rolpa, Tanahu, and Baglung - for children upto 18 months, involving grand parents, parents, facilitators and field motivators to care for very young children. Currently we support 28,00 ECD centers, reaching over 59,000 children. Encouraging a creative and expressive side of childrenÂ’s development from an early age, we piloted a Healing and Education through Art (HEART) project in Baglung and Kapilvastu districts. HEART introduced art to ECD activities to enable children to express their feelings and views through drawing and painting. ECD facilitators received training on HEART and parents were oriented on art as a medium to understand their children. This project saw over
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Reading buddies: Literacy boost program pairs an older child with a younger one so that they can learn to read together
740 children participate from 32 ECD centers. Art therapy has also been useful in identifying psychosocial problem among young children. More than 20 cases were identified since the project was started. Twently Constituent Assembly parliamentarians formed an ECD caucus to advocate the development rights of very young children as a fundamental right in the new constitution and national policies. We also successfully piloted and scaled up Literacy Boost to improve learning achievement among children in Kailali district. The study showed that children from program schools could identify only 19.4 letters during the baseline, which increased to 28.7 in the final evaluation. Literacy Boost will now be expanded to Kapilvastu and Bajura. Over 2,200 out-of-school children enrolled in accelerated education program and three fourth of the graduates joined school. The movement to make schools safer and secure for children expanded with 620 schools practicing free and compulsory basic education, and banning corporal punishment. Emphasizing on the need for education during disasters, 26 districts developed plans for education in emergencies while peace education component has been incorporated in primary and non-formal education program. Under the Nepal ChildrenÂ’s Scholarship Endownment Program 746 children from marginalized communities of 15 districts received scholarships to continue high school education.
Children and Adults Direct Reach Thematic Area
Children
Adults
28,590 93,319 1,011 4,706 4,236 2,533 0
78,087 416,656 381 137,207 6,014 1,701 4
106,677 509,975 1,392 141,913 10,250 4,234 4
Gross Total Double count adjustment
134,395 6,590
640,050 132,836
774,445 139,426
Actual people reached
127,805
507,214
635,019
Early Childhood Development Basic Education Adolescent Non-Formal Education School Health and Nutrition Secondary Education Vocational Education Other Education
Total
A good beginning for Neha Teaching materials is like a friend to a teacher. In my school, students and teachers get together to make learning materials and mothers have also brought home-made teaching materials to school. Children learn quicker and better when I take teaching materials inside the class. Toyanath Pyakurel Principal, Kalika Primary School, Sindhupalchok A mother puts up a notice of school enrolment campaign written in Urdu in Banke for the new academic session
Teachers exchange teaching materials at a mobile meeting in Sindhupalchok
Four-year-old Neha has been going to the early childhood development centre Seto Gurans Balbatika in Baglung for the last two years. Everyday she learns one new thing. She and her friends recently learned about what do we wear in winter . ECD facilitator Goma painted pictures of winter clothes like a sweater, socks and caps to make children understand better. They sang a song about winter and drew pictures of winter clothes. She asked children about what are they wearing and Neha promptly responded, sweater showing her pink sweater. For three hours, six days a week, children like Neha aged between 3 and 4 come to the ECD center and learn about something new everyday. The facilitator chooses a topic for the day and the day s activity focuses around it. Neha s family moved to Baglung Bazar over ten years ago from a remote village in Baglung. She also has a brother who goes to primary school. Neha's mother, a seamstress recounts, "My son took almost a year to adjust to going to the school every day as he was not used to staying away from home". Looking forward to sending Neha to grade one, she is not worried about her not being able to adjust to school environment or learning. Her mother says, Going to ECD centre for the last two years, Neha is not shy and likes going to learn. She already knows a lot and even tells me to wash my hand before eating. I wish I was also able to send my son to an ECD centre when he was younger. ECD centers provide a strong foundation for young children like Neha in the first few formative years of their lives, supporting their physical, emotional and cognitive growth.
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Health and Nutrition As Nepal moves steadily towards achieving UN Millennium Development Goal 4 of reducing deaths of children under the age of five by two thirds by 2015, Save the Children has been supporting the design, development and implementation of the Community Based Newborn Care Program (CB-NCP) through Department of Health Services. The Ministry of Health and Population has this program rolled out in 25 districts. Save the Children has been implementing this program in Bardiya and was extended to Nawalparasi in 2010 through Saving Newborn Lives Program. Our Saving Newborn Lives program joined hands with the District Public Health Office to train 206 health workers and with National Health Training Centre to train 88 skilled birth attendants. The key achievement has been in the increase of institution delivery; 67 percent of mothers gave birth in health facility, which was 34 percent in the baseline. Similarly increase was seen in community case management of infection among newborns. Essential newborn care curricula were developed for General Medicine in pre-service and for nursing and health assistant training as an continous approach to strengthen the pre-service training. Through Nepal Family Health Program, chlorhexidine umblical swab for prevention of newborn infection was pilot tested in five districts, and neonatal Vitamin A in 2 districts. Both interventions will undergo evaluation in 2011. The health facility management committee strengthening program was
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Traditional Birth Attendant holds a newborn baby born at a Primary Health Centre in Rajapur, Bardiya. More and more traditional birth attendants are encouraging women to give birth under the care of skilled birth attendants
expanded in six districts. School Health and Nutrition (SHN) services, aimed at improving health status of children, is an important area of work for us. Forty-five percent children received basic health services, particularly de-worming and iron supplement in our working area. Over 390 schools now have SHN activities while 317 schools have separate toilets for boys and girls. Health education and hygienic practice demonstration classes reached 84, 297 children. SHN program was expanded in Doti, Bajura and Accham district in 2010. An innovative nutrition project has been initiated in 20 village development committees of Rukum and Banke with mothers and families taught to identify local calorie rich food to feed the baby, house behavior change for food and strengthening community based growth promotion through Community Health Workers and Volunteers. EVERYONE Campaign In October 2009 Save the Children launched EVERYONE campaign with the vision that no child under the age five will die due to preventable causes. In addition to our newborn, child survival and nutrition program on the ground, we engaged people in our campaign through radio show Shishu Sarokar and public service announcements through local radio stations, concerts and rallies to spread awareness about newborn and child survival.
Children and Adults Direct Reach Thematic Area
Children
Adults
Total
Maternal and Newborn Health Child health Adolescent Health Other Health
24,271 50,596 76 1,294
58,480 4,592 255 1,942
82,751 55,188 331 3,236
Gross Total Double count adjustment
76,237 0
65,269 0
141,506 0
Actual people reached
76,237
65,269
141,506
I have seen many babies born like Asha s little girl, not breathing. We didn t know how to save them. Now I know what to do. I became a health worker thinking I will help women but now I am also saving newborns. Pushpa Sigdel ANM trained in Community Based Newborn Care Program in Bardiya.
Chaudyal Lower Secondary School in Kailali has separate toilet for girls and boys. There is more privacy now, say the girls in school
Sunita s low birth weight twins are doing well after frequent kangaroo mother care (skin to skin care to give warmth to the baby)
Asha s baby is saved Married at a young age, 18-year-old Asha gave birth to a baby girl at a public health post at Dodhari in Bardiya district. Her family sought help from a female community health volunteer (FCHV) in her village to help her through the pregnancy process, assisting her with advice and information on taking nutritious food, vitamins and iron tablets, and going for regular check ups. In addition, her FCHV also encouraged her familiy to take her to the health post to give birth in the presence of skilled birth attendants. After prolonged labor, Asha gave birth to a baby girl with help from Pushpa, an auxiliary nurse and midwife at the health post. But, at birth her baby didn t cry and was not breathing. Pushpa, who had just finished the seven-day community based newborn care training, started stimulating the baby and used the dee-lee suction to help the baby breathe. When these methods could not revive the baby, Pushpa used the bag and mask to resuscitate the baby. The baby started crying after a while. Everyone was relieved. Since the baby was also underweight, her FCHV Syanumaya came to the house to check on the baby frequently and teach the family how to give skin-to-skin care known as Kangaroo Mother Care to the baby. Asha and her motherin-law took turns in the first month after the baby s birth to provide KMC. Asha's baby is a healthy one year old now. A low cost method to save low birth weight babies, Kangaroo Mother Care has proven very effective for low birth weight babies, keeping them warm and helping gain weight.
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HIV and AIDS More than 1,300 children and young people under the age of 19 are reported to be infected with HIV and AIDS while thousands more affected by it. Save the ChildrenÂ’s HIV and AIDS program targeted at both children and adults, focused on increasing access of children to HIV related services, advocating for safe behaviors for prevention of HIV and AIDS, mobilizing Social Volunteers against AIDS (SOVAA) and providing care and supportive environment for affected children. In 2010, Save the Children worked with communities, government and partners in 15 districts to provide HIV and AIDS prevention and care support. Creating supportive environment for children affected with AIDS (CABA) within their communities, 124 children received health service while 794 received educational support to continue going to school. Psychosocial counseling was an integral part of this assistance. Over 200 children also joined local child clubs and SOVAA initiative, contributing to social acceptance of children affected by HIV and AIDS and decrease in social stigma. In Doti and Accham, children affected by AIDS have been helping each other to do homework and learn difficult lessons in school. Ninety-one children are engaged in this activity. To ensure livelihood of families with children, income generation intervention reached over
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Young SOVAA (Social Volunteers against AIDS) boys and girls participating in a rally on World AIDS Day 2010 in Morang
80 families, who received seed money to invest in income generation activities. Peer education, SOVAA mobilization and education campaigns targeted towards children and young people resulted in over 21,000 children being able to state three ways to protect themselves from HIV. Promoting role of children and young people as change agents, 2,638 new Social Volunteers against AIDS were trained on addressing and protecting children from sexual abuse while also engaging with local communities to prevent the spread of HIV. In order to strengthen the SOVAA movement, all 15 working districts have established district level SOVAA network. With regards to treatment and health care, 6,079 people (parents) living with HIV (PLHA) and AIDS were provided access to Voluntary Counseling, Anti Retroviral Treatment, and other services. To address stigma and discrimination attached to HIV and AIDS, PLHA networks are functional in our working areas with one PLHA representative in District AIDS Coordination Committee. On the advocacy front, the Supreme Court of the country directed the government on 1 October 2010 to ensure rights of children affected by HIV and AIDS.
Children and Adults Direct Reach Children
Adults
Total
Prevention of HIV Care and Support for HIV-affected Children Without Adequate Care Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Paediatric AIDS, Community and Home Based Care and Palliative Care Other HIV/AIDS
Thematic Area
18,458 1,129 0 775 474
66,061 2,547 207 6,104 1,487
84,519 3,676 207 6,879 1,961
Gross Total Double count adjustment
20,836 10
76,406 62
97,242 72
Actual people reached
20,826
76,344
97,170
My biggest fear is for my son. I have not told his school that he is HIV positive. I have heard children being denied admission and being suspended from school for having HIV or parents with HIV. I hope he can keep going to school." A HIV positive mother talking about her fear for her son who also has HIV. Her son made the picture of the bicycle.
SOVAA members meet to plan action to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS in their community
Peer educators sharing information on HIV and AIDS awareness in Janakpur
Kristy, a young campaigner My name is Kristy. I am 13-years-old. I study in grade eight. I live with my parents and two siblings. My mother works hard, doing small odd jobs to send three of us to school. We have a SOVAA (Social Volunteers against AIDS) children s group in my community and similar groups in our village. We have also formed a child network with representatives from child groups in the village. I am the chairperson of that network. All of us in the SOVAA children s group are of same age. We share information about risks related to reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, early marriage and drug abuse with each other. Friends who think what we discuss is relevant join our group. Our groups get bigger and form different groups. At SOVAA group, we talk about how to protect our friends from risks and how to help those who are already at risk. When a friend of ours is getting married early, we share with that friend and the parents about negative affects of early marriage We discuss our rights and responsibility and sometimes we share what we want to be when we grow up. When we hear about friends doing well in school and about their dreams, we are encouraged to do better as well. I learned that what we cannot do alone, we can do in a group. We need help from friends and parents to succeed. We have staged street dramas on stop child labour and stop child marriage with the help of the village development committee. Our school also supports us. I still feel that there are too few examples of children being taken seriously, families, schools and community listening to them. If children get together and help each other and set good example, we get respect.
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Emergency With the global ambition to become the emergency response agency for children worldwide, we now work with a dual mandate in both development and emergency programs. In Nepal, our programs are coordinated with local administration at the grassroots and central bodies at the national level including the Ministry of Home Affairs. At grassroots, we worked with 172 child clubs, training them on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. In response to being prepared for emergency, stockpile of Non Food Relief Items (NFRI) for four thousand families (24,000 people) are in stock at any given point. The stockpiles are located in Dhangadi and Nepalgunj with the Nepal Red Cross Society, in Biratnagar and at the Armed Police Force headquarters in Kathmandu. Stocks include shelter kits, utensil and blankets. To reduce dependence on cluster groups and government agencies in an event of an emergency, human resource capacity building initiative included training 35 emergency professionals from partner NGOs. Working with the District Disaster Response Committees, preparedness and response trainings at local level for partners and stakeholders included child protection during disaster and setting up emergency response teams. In partnership with the Ministry of Home Affairs, District Disaster
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Female Community Health Volunteers demonstrating 6 steps of good hand washing at a WASH awareness in Kailali
Preparedness (DDP) Plan for 12 districts was endorsed. At the national level, sensitization on protection during natural disasters was conducted in partnership with the Red Cross Society; with stakeholders including the government concluding that the current blanket approach of NFRI and food distribution mechanism in the country did not address the special needs of vulnerable groups in disaster situation. We responded to floods, landslides and fire incidents in 8 districts, reaching out and addressing 100 percent (190,635) of affected childrenÂ’s immediate needs. Emergency response included support during the fire outbreak in Siraha and Banke district where close to two hundred people were rescued and provided relief support. Emergency interventions during the monsoons were responses to flash floods in Jhapa and Sunsari district in July and during the bursting of the eastern embankment of the Mahakali River in Bhimdutta Municipality Kanchanpur district. During the diarrheal outbreak in the mid west, we were able to limit the deaths (ten); credit going to the Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) who acted in promptness. Response to anticipated emergencies resulting from food scarcity included the Food Security Initiative Programme to support communities vulnerable to drought in Mugu, Rukum, Humla, Rolpa and Banke districts.
Children and Adults Direct Reach Children
Adults
Total
General Relief / Emergency Management: Preparedness, Prevention and Risk Reduction Food Aid
Thematic Area
1,919 104,598 85,952
3,212 183,944 74580
5,131 288,542 160,532
Gross Total Double count adjustment
192,469 1,834
261,736 4,094
454,205 5,928
Actual people reached
190,635
257,642
448,277
“We as Save the Children must accept and promote local knowledge and capacities and not always look to western countries for expertise”. Borger A. Lenth Chairman of the Board, Save the Children Norway after visiting Nepal program
Families affected by Mahakali river flood receiving relief materials
Vulnerability and capacity assessment among flood affected community in Bardiya
WASH session inspires toilet construction Manpur Village lies in ward number 6 of Gadhawa VDC in Dang district. There are about 500 people from 98 households living in this ward. Almost 75 percent of the people do not have toilets in their houses and have been defecating in open spaces. Disaster Preparedness and Response (DPR)-III project brought a much needed sanitation and hygiene awareness in this village. Under the DPR project, Water Sanitation and Health session was conducted for the community. Geeta was one of the participants at a WASH training conduced in her village. The good hygiene and sanitation practice session had such an impact on her that she constructed a toilet in her home days after the training. Geeta says," We wanted to construct a toilet three years ago but it was never our priority. When I had an opportunity to participate in the WASH training, I understood about the importance of toilet and how harmful open defecation can be, I constructed toilet in my home immediately". Emphasizing Geeta's statement, BirjaChaudhary, a community health worker said, "This training has encouraged most of the people to construct toilet and give up open defecation. Gita has set a good example". The community health volunteers and WASH trainers visit those who participated in the training to follow up on how they have been able to use the learning of the WASH training in improving hygiene and sanitation in their home and village. To support community efforts, District Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Office - Dang has declared to make Dang an open toilet free district by 2014. This intervention will play an important role to meet this goal.
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Livelihood Save the Children continues to make livelihood program a priority supporting family s income generation and livelihood opportunities for adolescents. The program s focus is on how to increase family s level of income and promote food security for children and their families so that they can have access to food, health care and education. The Food-Security Initiative project piloted to address the food shortages and price rise brought 6,676 food insecure households under food security actions groups. This project implemented in five mid-western districts of Nepal Humla, Mugu, Rukum, Rolpa and Banke engaged 2,440 food deficit households in commercial vegetable farming, resulting in earnings of Rs. 6.52 million. Over 7,000 mothers were trained in nutrition and food handling. The impact of which was seen in improved sanitation and food habits with 70 percent of participants building toilets and setting up kitchen garden in their homes. Addressing the growing youth population and their potential to promote social harmony, peace at the local level and ensuring children s rights, we worked closely with this demographic. Over 1,796 youth participated in peace promotion trainings. They also organised over 600 initiatives to promote peace in the
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Food Security Initiative in five district of Nepal focuses on increasing family income and promoting food security for children and their families
community. At present, 206 youths are involved in local level peace committees contributing closely to resolve disputes as well as promoting social harmony. In our working areas, 128 village development committees and 9 district development committees demonstrated their commitment to prioritise youth issues by allocating funds for program initiated by youths. Through vocational and micro enterprise training targeted at young adults just about to embark on gainful employment, 4,220 young people now have access to microfinance services. On the innovative side, YouthSave, a project to develop and roll out a saving product accessible to low income children and youth and study their uptake and usage, was started in August 2010. This is a multi-country learning project for low-income youth savings with Bank of Kathmanud as a financial service partner. In 2010, Child Sensitive Social Protection project started in Sindhupalchok to produce replicable solution for problems faced by children. Likewise, Community Based Micro Health Insurance pilot project has been initiated in Banke and Dhadhing districts to improve the economic security of the poor households by reducing the financial burden of accessing health care for every family member including children, their caretakers, and vital income earners.
Children and Adults Direct Reach Children
Adults
Total
Asset Recovery and Protection in Support of Nutrition, Health, and Education Income and Asset Growth in Support of Nutrition, Health, and Education Other Livelihoods
Thematic Area
43,994 18,821 492
40,318 27,777 420
84,312 46,598 912
Gross Total Double count adjustment
63,307 1834
68,515 4094
131,822 2741
Actual people reached
61,379
67,702
129,081
When you are a big organization, you want to do everything. You could be putting so much effort in resource mobilization because there are so many opportunities for funding; but then you take the focus away from children, even though the funding is for them . Kari Thomason, Save the Children Chairperson Nepal Country Leadership Group (CLG) after the last CLG meeting.
Farmer's group produce rice seed for plantation
Off season tomato plantation in poly-house in Rukum
Young people in farming Transition from daily wage earners to entrepreneur is challenging and this was evident when a group of 16 young farmers in Khashkusma village development committee in Banke district ventured into leasehold farming. Engaging in the Food Security Initiative (FSI) project which is aimed to improve the food security of vulnerable groups, they took upon themselves to capitalise on the local resources in the village and started farming seasonal vegetables. The Hitkari Food Security Group leased one hector land from a school at a nomical rent. FSI s technical support like trainings, seed distribution and material saw them cultivate a variety of vegetables such as chilly, eggplants, and tomatoes. Adjusting to a new way of income generation did make the youths feel sceptical of their venture. But hard work on the field did yield results; with the group earnings exceeding 345,000 rupees in the first year of their venture. With income came a sense of confidence and empowerment reflected in them being able to support their families economic and social needs; children were enrolled in schools. They set the trend and they had followers in a village where most youths go to India in search of seasonal employment. In a village which did not foresee the possibility of commercial farming, five additional farmer s groups followed Hitkari s example. The results were visible when 112 households were engaged in commercial farming on more than five hectors of land; producing more than 17 metric tons of fresh vegetable in the first year of FSI s support in Khashkusma VDC.
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Bhutan Program Save the Children's programs in Bhutan focused on education, child protection and emergencies in 2010. These programs were implemented in partnership of Ministry of Education, Royal Bhuan Police, National Commission for Women and Children, Zhemgang District Administration, Department of Disaster Management and Thimphu City Corporation.
Education
Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) program was piloted in Bhutan with the opening of three ECCD centers in Zhemgang district. A total of 110 children are enrolled in these centers with trained facilitators running the classes where young children learn through fun and games. Ministry of Education endorsed the draft national ECCD policy and now it is working towards making it one of the components of National Education Policy of Bhutan. Twenty-two ECCD trainers were trained; they formed a national core group that will train new facilitators. In addition, 21 ECCD and private day-care center facilitators received training while over 70 parents participated in ECCD materials development training. Another important education intervention was Adolescent NonFormal Education program which consisted of three components: life skills education through scout program, career education and psychosocial counseling for school children, School-based Parenting Education and Awareness (SPEA) program, and program for Children at one of the first ECCD centers in Zhemgang
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young people conducted through youth centers. Twenty-six new teachers are now implementing SPEA program in their schools. All 138 schools conducted SPEA sessions for 13,462 parents. With the objective of youth adopting positive practices that will contribute to their well being and protection, as well as providing them with skills and knowledge for gainful employment, over 54,500 students of grades ten and twelve participated in career education and counseling program. We conduced psychosocial counseling training to school counselors. The new scouts recruitment reached 8,000 in 2010. Thirty-six people were trained as new scout masters and they also received Life Skills Education training. Over 19,000 school youths and over 2,500 out of school youth used the services at Thimphu, Phuntsholing, and Gelephu youth centers. Youth forums and short youth programs were also conducted at these centers. Bhutan s Ministry of Youth and Sports drafted the national youth policy in which Save the Children played a supporting role.
will also make arrangements for their long-term care and rehabilitation. With the focus of reaching out to children who came in contact with the law, three new vocational training on Bhutanese portrait making, embroidery, and traditional painting was introduced at Youth Development and Rehabilitation Center (YRDC). A twoday youth forum was conducted on HIV and AIDS and youth of YDRC received first aid. The children who have come in contact with the law are being supported through the Youth Development and Rehabilitation Centre managed by the Royal Bhutan Police.
Emergencies
Child Protection
In 2010, child protection program included children without appropriate care and children in contact with the law. A transit shelter Rayna Ling home for children without appropriate care started with the capacity to take care of 20 children who will be provided with counseling, health care and nutrition. The home
A new partnership was initiated with the Department of Disaster Management under the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs in 2010 for emergency preparedness and safety education. We produced and circulated over 22.000 leaflets on earthquake safety with a focus on schools. Handbooks on safety and first aid, guidelines on school disaster management plan and posters on earthquake safety were prepared and widely disseminated. Seventy-nine teachers participated in safe school training program to prepare them to secure safety of children in case of disaster. Emergency mock drills were conducted in schools in Zhemgang district with participation of over 600 children.
Scouts at a life skill education session in Bhutan
A yound girl reading at youth information center
Children and Adults Direct Reach Thematic Area
Children
Adults
Total
Child Protection Education Child Rights Governance Emergencies
39 50,940 0 617
68 13,892 40 123
107 64,832 40 740
Gross total Double count adjustment
51,596 617
14,123 123
65,719 740
Actual people reached
50,979
14,000
64,979
The experience of working with families, communities, local leaders, district administration and Ministry of Education in the establishment of community ECCD centers has been both exciting and challenging. We are very happy to see how our collaborative efforts have paid off when we see smiles of children at the ECCD centre. We will work harder to open few more centers in the coming year. Karma Dyenka Program Coordinator - Education, Save the Children, Bhutan Teachers participating in safe schools training on how to secure safety of children in case of disaster
Minister Thakur S Powdyel and Ms. Anne Katrine Hagelund inaugurating the Rayna Ling transit home
Bringing parents closer to children Tsering is a student of grade nine in Kilikhar Middle School in Bhutan. When she was six years old her mother died of a medical problem and his father remarried. She has two older sisters, a young sister and a brother. Tsering s father has studied up to grade eight while her step mother has never been to school but both are very supportive of their children s desire to go to school. Kilikhar Middle School is one of 138 schools in Bhutan where Save the Children runs School Based Parent s Education and Awareness program. Tsering s parents were invited to attend SPEA program by the school. Her father, a construction contractor attended SPEA in the year 2010 and 2011. Before attending this program, her father and mother did not talk to her about her life, what was happening in school and with her friends. Now her parents has started talking to her about issues related to growing up. Fifteen year old Tsering says, Most parents don t communicate with their children unless when they have to scold. After attending SPEA, my mom talked to me about teenage pregnancy and dad about HIV and AIDS, and drug abuse. He also talks to me about my homework. I felt they cared. SPEA program is targeted at parents of adolescent, helping them acquire knowledge and skills to guide their children on various issues that adolescents face. It also encourages parents to interact and communicate better with their children.
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Resources and fundraising Resources for the country program were contributed by member countries, Norway, USA, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Korea, New Zealand, Germany and United Kingdom. Similarly, there were 65 institutional and private donors who contributed to the country program. Resource mobilisation
Budget (USD)
From Member Countries From donors and grants
10.57 million 6.17 million
Total of resources
16.74 million
We want to invest in children as part of our corporate social responsibility. We would like to see our adopting Kisan Primary School in Dhodhari in Bardiya only as a starting point for the partnership with Save the Children. We see greater scope for 2011 in engaging with local NGOs to support more schools and bring more children to schools. Ms. Sanju Koirala, Corporate Communications Manager of NCELL
Our Donors Anne-Katerine Hagelund Australian Agency for International Development Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Corporate payroll giving DnB Nor Corporate European Commission Georgetown University
Before: Shiva Ganga Primary School, Nawalparasi
Instituto Promundo Japan International Cooperation Agency John Snow Inc Korean International Cooperation Agency
Donors and grants (37%)
Member Countries (63%)
Livelihoods Leadership Council Network After: Grade one classroom in Shiva Ganga Primary School, Nawalparasi after NCELL adopted the school
Master Card Foundation Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway MISEREOR Nepal Family Health Programme
Resources from Member Countries
Recources from Others
Country program s fundraising for partner NGOs saw show of interest both in Nepal and abroad by private and corporates. Engagement with the private sector to involve them in our programs saw the Bank of Kathmandu and NCell a telecommunication company support our education program through the Adopt a School Initiative. Likewise, Japanese companies Mihira Corporation and Marui, Swedish auction house Lauritz and the Business Institute in Norway were engaged in the Adopt a School and Early Childhood Development, contributing over 14 million rupees and benefitting more than four thousand children. With facilitation by member countries Australia, New Zealand and South Korea, three charity tours were organised for fundraising for our partners.
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Artist ambassador for Save the Children, the rock band 1974 AD became sources of inspiration for a group of conflicted affected children when they visited our partner NGO Under Privileged Children s Educational Program (UCEP). Band members listened to individual stories and motivated children who were receiving vocational training support under the Operation s Day Work program. The band also facilitated five private schools in Kathmandu to adopt five community schools. Save the Children s annual fundraising event Come together helped raise funds for Concern for Children and Environment (CONCERN) to support working children in brick kilns in Lalitpur district. The event, supported by Unilever also turned out to be a platform to engage with new and growing private constituencies of support for Save the Children. 1974 AD also made contribution from the proceeds of their tour of Australia for the fundraising event.
New Zealand Agency for International Development Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation Operation Days Work (Norway) Patel Foundation Procter & Gamble Royal Norwegian Embassy (Nepal) Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria United Nations Children's Fund United Nations Women United Nations World Food Programme United States Agency for International Development (USAID) World Learning
Our Partners Save the Children's programs are supported by range of partners across Nepal. Our partners in 2010 are listed below: Nepal Aasaman Nepal, Janakpur AAVASH Samuha Alliance for Social Mobilisation Pvt. Ltd. (Alliance Nepal), Kathmandu Arunoday Youth Club (AYC), Parsa Association for Helping the Helpless (AHH), Nepalgunj Backward Society Education (BASE) Backwardness Eradication Society (BES), Palpa Banke Unesco Club (BUC), Nepalgunj Bhawani Intergrated Development Center, Siraha Bidhyarthi Jagaran Manch (Bijam) CDS-Udayapur Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN) Children- Women in Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH), Kathmandu Community Development Centre (CDC), Doti Community Development Forum (CDF), Doti Community Service Group (CSG), Kailali Concern for Children and Environment (CONCERN), Kathmandu Dalit Welfare Organization (DWO) Development Concern Society (DECOS), Rolpa Disable Rehabilitation and Rural Development Organization (DARRDO), Mugu Distric Child Welfare Board District Education Office, Kavre District Public Health Office, Bardiya DNGOCC, Dang Federation of Nepalese Journalist (FNJ) Federation of Sexual & Gender Minorities-Nepal (FSGMN), Kathmandu Gaja Youth Club (GYC), Baglung Gangotri Rural Development Forum (GaRDeF), Achham Gateway Foundation Nepal (GWFN), Kaski Geruwa Rural Awareness Association (GRAA) HAPPY Nepal Hoste Hainse Child Development Society, (HHCDS), Tanahu IDE Nepal Ilaka Child Development NGOCC, Gaighat Indreni Samaj Kendra (ISK) Palpa and NP, Palpa Indreni Service Society (INSES), Siraha Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal (IHRICON), Kathmandu
Jagriti Mahila Sangh (JMS), Kathmandu Jana Jyoti Community Development Center (JJCDC), Pyuthan Kalika Development Centre Kalika Self Reliance Social Center Nepal (KSSC), Kapilvastu Karnali Integrated Rural Development Center (KIRDARC) Kirat Yakthung Chumlung (KYC) Mahila Atma Nirverata Kendra (MANK), Melamchi MISSION EAST N SARC, Rolpa Nangsal Association, Kavre National Dalit Social Welfare Organization (NNDSWO) National Association of People Living with HIV & AIDS in Nepal (NAP+N) National Federation of Women Living with HIV & AIDS (NFWLHA) National NGOs Network Group Against AIDS-Nepal (NANGAN) National Rural Community Development Centre, (NARDEC), Gulmi Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP) Nepal HIV/AIDS Alliance (NEHA) Nepal National Dalit Social welfare Organization (NNDSWO), Kailali Nepal National Social Welfare Association (NNSWA), Kanchanpur Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) Nepal Women Community Service Centre (NWCSC), Pyuthan Nirdhan Oppressed and Tribal Caste Development Center (OTCDC), Arghakanchi Oppressed Class and Women Awareness Centre (OCWAC), Achham PEACEWIN (Participatory Effort at Children Education and Women Initiative Nepal) Reconstruction & Research Development Center (RRDC), Mugu Recovering Nepal (RN), Lalitpur Remote Area Women and Children Empowerment Center (RAWCEC), Mugu Richmond Fellowship Nepal (RFN) Rukumeli Samag Development Center (RSDC), Rukum Rural Society Dev. Center, Dewangunj Safer Society (SS), Surkhet SAHARA, Syangja Sahayog Nepal, Biratnagar Samaj Sewa Doti (SSD Doti), Doti SATHI Samuha, Kathmandu SEED, Dang
Seto Gurans Child Development Service Shakti Milan Samaj, Kathmandu Shakti Samuha, Kathmandu Social Awareness Center (SAC), Surkhet Social Development Forum (SDF), Nepalgunj Social Rise Help Centre (SRHC), Palpa Social Service Center (SoSeC), Dailekh Society Support Group 2003, Rupendehi SOVAA Support & Coordination Team, Jhapa Srijana Community Dev. Center, Siraha Sripuraj Community Dev. Center, Saptari Sunshine Social Developments Organization, Kapilvastu Support & Care Rehabilitation Center (SNC) Tanahu Sahayogi Group (TSG), Tanahu Team Organizing Local Institution ((TOLI), Kaski Tuki Association Sunkoshi (TASK), Sindhupalchwok Under Privileged Children Association, Dharan Under Privileged Children s Educational Program (UCEP), Bhaktapur Women Self Help Center, Lamjung (WSHC), Lamjung Women Development Office Women for Human Right (WHR), Surkhet Working for Access and Creation-Nepal (WAC-Nepal) Youth Empowerment Trust Nepal, Rajbiraj Youth Vision (YV)
Bhutan Depart of Youth and Sports Department of Disaster Management Ministry of Education Ministry of Health Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs National Commission for Women and Children Royal Bhutan Police Thimphu City Corporation Youth Development Fund Zhemgang District Administration
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Events 2010 Save the Children & UNICEF working together
Come Together II Save the Children s annual fund raising event Come Together saw rock band and SC s artist ambassadors 1974AD perform with legendary singer Deep Shrestha. The event organized with Concern Nepal, held in Garden of Dreams on 29 October 2010 raised 300,000 which will go into setting up daycare centres and non-formal education for children working in brick kilns.
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0n 27 April, Save the Children and UNICEF signed a memorandum of understanding committing to working more closely together to support and promote the realisation of rights of children in the country. The three-year agreement also focuses on joint advocacy initiatives and campaigns.
1 GOAL: Education for All
Building Peace: Looking Forward
Coinciding with the Football World Cup 2010, Save the Children participated in 1 GOAL campaign initiated in collaboration with National Campaign for Education for all and Association of International NGOs in Nepal. The campaign seized the power of football to ensure that every child has the chance to go to school and learn.
Nepal Country Office hosted the regional workshop on Building Peace: Looking Forward, Children and Young People s Initiatives from 3-7 May in Kathmandu with children and young people from Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal and Srilanka. The workshop was aimed at understanding how to improve child participation in our work and recognising children s place in peace building.
Red Nose Day
Social Tours and volunteering
Norwegian TV personality Katherine Sørland was in Bardiya from 30 August to 3 September, filming a short documentary on community based newborn care program. She visited mothers, newborns and female community health volunteers to understand how simple, low cost methods are being used in villages to save newborn babies. The film was part of Red Nose Day when Norwegian public raise funds for a cause.
Social Tours will be working with Save the Children to initiate voluntarism and fund raising tours. The initiative started in April will include an element of giving back to the communities and places that people visit as part of their tour of Nepal.
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www.every1.asia
World Pneumonia Day
Save the Children launched a unique online community website EVERONE ASIA in 2010 to bring together child survival campaigners from all over Asia to share and learn from each other. Nepal s EVERYONE Campaign has a page on this interactive site featuring campaign upates. EVERYONE is Save the Children s global campaign to ensure that every child will have the chance to live past its fifth birthday.
Nepal Paediatric Society, Safe Motherhood Network and Save the Children marked World Pneumonia Day on 12 November 2010 with a rally. Over 700 people including Minister of Health, government officials, heath workers and students joined the march on the streets of Kathmandu.
Santa in November
Mahayagya
Eleven Korean trekkers arrived in Nepal under Santa in November trek to raise funds. After trekking in the Himalayas for four days, they build two schools in Joshidihawa and Bhagwanpur of Kapilvastu district. They interacted with community and children as well. Prior to the trip, they had raised over 2.4 million to support Save the Children s education programs.
A week long Mahayagya was held in Kathmandu as a way to raise fund to establish scholarship fund for marginalized children from 29 September to 3 October 2010 by Nepal National Dalit Social Welfare Organization in Kathmandu. Inaugurated by Rt. Hon ble President of Nepal Dr. Ram BaranYadav, the Mahayagya by Pandit Deenbandhu Pokharel raised over 2.7 million.
Cellist Lynn Harrell Visits Nepal
Antim Grahan for EVERYONE
Renowned American cellist Lynn Harrell, who is also Save the Children s Artist Ambassador performed for children of Seto Gurans early childhood development centre in Baglung on 20 December. He was in Nepal to observe the Healing and Education through ART project which encourages children to express emotions through art. In a unique exchange of culture, Mr. Harrell and local musicians also performed for each other.
Nepali underground metal band Antim Grahan supported Save the Children s EVERYONE campaign during their tour of Pokhara city. The audience of over 400 metal fans showed support to children affected by HIV and AIDS. During the concert, the band spoke about how HIV and AIDs affects children.
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