I am writing concerning a major problem in the cities of Nepal, namely the thousands of abused and abandoned children that are on the streets of all of Nepal's major cities. Our group, Protego Nepal, is looking to establish a self-sustaining safe house and begin to rehabilitate as many of the children as we can. Everything is in place to begin except for funding to purchase land, build the facility, and run the school for a year to become established.

 

These kids are non-people! They are subjected to three major areas of concern: Abusive treatment by older children, adults, and even the police. Child labor: Children as young as three are working in mines and at rag picking. It is estimated that of Nepal's 2 million children almost 1 million work in sub-human conditions across the country. Health concerns: To escape the lack of food, the sub-human conditions in which they live,  and their treatment by most of society these kids turn to sniffing glue, and smoked and injected drugs. HIV/AIDS will become a terrible avenger as these children are almost completely unaware of the disease and how it is spread.  90% are boys and the 10% that are girls are quickly pulled from the streets and placed in houses of prostitution in Northern India and Nepal.

 

Why is our proposal unique? We want the safe house to be self-sustaining, raising mushrooms and organic vegetables to sell commercially to hotels, restaurants and to the local population. After an initial investment we hope that there would be no need for continual funding as the safe house would be self sustaining.