Street Children volunteer

Street Children – Volunteer Opportunity

The numbers of street children are increasing around Nepal, especially in urban areas such Kathmandu. There are currently more than 3000 street children in Kathmandu. These children are living throughout the city and move locations often due to a lack of shelter and housing. Outside of Kathmandu, there are over 4000 more homeless children living in other cities including: Pokhara, Biratnagar, Dharan and Nepalgunj. There are a few reasons for the rising number of children living on the streets,  which include, urbanization, poverty, increases in unemployment rates, and abandonment. There is no organization that exists to provide shelter or emergency support for children in such circumstances. As a result, they spend their days walking around the city and sleeping on the streets. The government has not implemented any program or policy to try and place these street children in homes or shelters, in order to keep them safe and healthy. As such these deprived street children who are shunned by their parents, family, and society  offer a challenging but rewarding opportunity for volunteer to minister.
As a result of circumstances and poverty it is very common for these homeless children to get involved in prostitution and drug trafficking, as this provides them with the means to buy sufficient food. Due to the tough and unjust nature of street life, this often leads to tobacco abuse, heavy alcohol consumption and drug use (hent, dendrite or hasis). Many children are also found to be affected by HIV due to their lack of education and sanitation.
Street children rely upon tourists as a way to survive. Once the tourist season comes to an end, they are left digging through the dirt and collecting plastic as a way to survive. Due to lack of food, housing and basic sanitation, street children are covered with bed bugs and lice, and suffer from various diseases. Most street children have dogs which they feed and travel with, these dogs provide companionship and warmth at night as temperatures can get down to two degrees.
By choosing to add street children work to your volunteering stay you can help rescue these children  and helping in the fight for the preservation of child rights. Therefore, we hope to help rescue them from further abandonment by providing a stable and safe environment where they can flourish and grow.
Mission in church would like to help more Street children  and, if possible, facilitating their return home. As part of your volunteering we can arrange for you to  meet children on the streets,  provide them with hot drinks, biscuits and some food. Modeling the love and behavior of Jesus, it is possible to build relationships with the children and try to work with them to find alternatives to the way they are currently living. Our optimum desire is to help facilitate the move of these children from the streets back to their homes. From here they can live with their family and work together to overcome any issues they are facing. If moving home is not a viable option, we  would try to offer them a home in  our orphanage or find an alternative for them. This allows for education, positive environments and the opportunity for a more personalized and individual care. If moving back to their family is not possible, child sponsorship places them in the care of either a foster family or orphanage and allows them to attend school. This enables them to attend a good school free of charge. Education is vital to secure a good future in Nepal, and we believe that this should be a right available to all people.
If you would like to include street children volunteering, in your timewith us we would like to help you  to work closely with these  street children. Building relationships through Nepalese language and helping distribute food leads to many opportunities to speak love and light into the lives of these children. If you would like to be involved with street children whilst volunteering with us then we would  be very happy to try to arrange this. Please visit program fees Click here
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