Faced with the many hardships of life in rural Nepal, CWS/N set up simple yet highly effective facilities together with villagers to improve their lives, and especially those of their children.
CWS/N works with eleven communities around Pokhara and helped them set up Day-Care/Health Centres (DCHC).
Alongside the DCHCs, we have implemented an Improved Cooking Stove programme throughout the areas we work in as preventive health measure and have provided one community with a new water supply
Introduction to our rural
activities 
Day Care/Health Centres
Improved Cooking
Stove Project
Water Supply project
Through the efficient use of funds, Child Welfare Scheme empowers and enables its local partners to work with communities to reduce poverty and improve the health, education and opportunities
of disadvantaged children and youths in order to give them a second chance in life. At least 85% of funds donated to CWS are used directly for project activities.
To date CWS has helped 11 mountain village communities build and manage their own Day-Care Health Centres. CWS has also set up drinking water projects and established programmes to build smokeless stoves in many village houses.
In addition, CWS undertakes activities for street youth in Pokhara, including a health clinic and a vocational training and reintegration centre.
CWS regularly publishes newsletters, annual reports, and research reports. These documents are shared with a large number of organizations at local, national and international levels. Our most recent publications are:
ADVANCED TRAINING ON ICS FOR LOCAL PROMOTERS, SEP 20-26,2005 : [Download: 633KB]
UNCRC 1989 (Full Text): [Download: 151KB]
Child Protection Policy-2005: [Download: 267KB]
Bhachok Evaluation Report [Download: 1.07MB]
UNESCO resource pack country study [Download: 677KB]
Policy forum report [Download: 578KB]
Nepali Handbook of Unesco Resource Pack [Download: 358KB]
Only about 14% of the Nepali population lives in urban areas, but the numbers are increasing. Villagers migrate with their families to the cities, hoping for a better life, some attracted by the urban wealth, others fleeing from the on-going violence resulting from the Maoist insurgency. Many of them find their dreams shattered and end up in slum areas adjacent to urban centres. Before the Maoist insurgency it was estimated that there were about 5,000 street children throughout Nepal, increasing by about 1,000 every year.
Introduction to our urban
activities
Asha Health Care
Click on the following links to read about our latest activities, events and other news:
October 2005: Dashain celebrated by Street KIDs
Annapurna Challenge Trek
O'Hara tackles the Sahara
for CWS
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Child Welfare Scheme
