Nepal with 16.8% of school age children remaining out of school, 45% of population living under international poverty line, 2 million children involving in economic activities (child labor) and 1 child out of  every 5 children suffering of child sexual abuse strongly stress on the need of the immediate and comprehensive efforts to address multi social hurdles in preserving childhood in line with Convention on Child Rights. Such a dismal condition of children in Nepal propelled ACCESS to launch multi facet program entitled RESTORING CHILDHOOD.

 

 

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"Community Based Child Rights Protection and Promotion Action” project is running in Kathmandu since 2010. Kathmandu valley alone is the home of 200000 child labors. Out of which, 58000 children are employed for domestic work. Child Domestic labor (CDL), prime target group of ACCESS, is categorized by ILO in 1989 as most vulnerable and exploited group of  economically active children and the most difficult to protect citing their non contact to outer world.Child labor is a grave and massive violation of child rights not just because children have to work; rather it blockades children from enjoying other several rights and also increases their vulnerability towards violence and abuse. An estimated 246 million children are engaged in child labor – one in six children in the world.
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"Food for Education" project is aimed at providing school meal (school tiffin) to primary level students of government schools serving the most neglected and underprivileged children of backward community. With 16.8% school age children still being out of school, and most of primary level students being compelled to spend 5 hours at school without having a single grain due to their poverty  are the grave matter of concern and also barriers to achieve "Education for ALL" in Nepal by 2015 as Millennium Development Goals. [Read More]