The Disabled Newlife Centre, a NGO is situated at Banishwor Heights. Their purpose is to provide free education, health care, corrective surgery and prosthesis to enable disabled children of Nepal to complete their education and go into the greater world, equipped to continue a full and satisfactory lifestyle.

Their requirements are for such skills as physiotherapy, massage, teaching, supervision of outings and generally interaction with the children. The House provides for the care of approximately 40 children.

Admission to the Establishment is subject to certain conditions. The child must be able to go to school. With corrective surgery, prosthesis, physio therapy and continual medical support and fulfilling the education requirement, will enable them to go forward to procure satisfactory employment after completion of their schooling.

In Nepal due to great poverty it is considered very difficult for families to cope with a child that has a disability. They are usually left to their own devices and are not sent to school or given adequate medical assistance, thus rendering them incapable of finding suitable work. Needless to say there is not the money for corrective surgery etc. To be accepted into the Disabled Newlife Centre is an achievement which will see them going through life as ‘normal people’.

For more information regarding volunteering opportunities, contact e-mail: dnc@infoclub.com.np

Phone numbers: (977)-1-447 0388 ; fax: (977)-1-499 225.

Web site: www.disablednewlife.org.np or www.nepalichildrenstrust.com

Children's Future Organization

CFO-Nepal, is a registered Nepalese non profit organization and was founded in 2003 with the mission to support disadvantaged Nepalese children. The location of the Orphanage is not far from Chabahil off the Ring Road.

Selected children enter under various categories:
• orphans
• children with a single parent who is too poor to bring up the child
• children who have been abandoned through poverty, illness, drugs, or have parents who are in jail
• street children.

The children must be able to adapt to the structured regime of the Orphanage and readily settle in to the environment.

48 children between 1 and 13 years old were admitted to the orphanage in the first two years of operation. The children are attending a private nursery and (pre)school.

The ways in which you might be able to assist :

Material Donations:
Donations of clothing in all sizes from baby to 15 year olds have proved to be the most valuable help from visitors. Stationary items, children’s books in English, writing materials and all kinds of toys are also very welcome.

Volunteers:
The children are busy with school during term time. However, there are three long holiday periods when volunteers are welcome to visit the children’s home assisting in various leisure and learning activities.

The holiday periods are:
- 4 weeks Dashain Holiday in October/November
- 2 weeks winter vacation in January
- 2 weeks term break in April.

Cash Donations:
They are important to cover expenses such as house maintenance, employee wages, expenses for the children’s needs and, a distant dream, part could be saved up to build own premises.

Contact email address: cfonepal@yahoo.com
Phone number: (977)-1-437 1155

Shanti Sewa Griha

This organisation cares for Lepers and Polio sufferers. They have two establishments, one in Gausala, near Pashupatinath and the other in the hills behind Budhanilkantha. The Gausala organisation assists approximately four hundred people and those in the hills number two hundred. Not all are ill, but are included as family members of those who do have the diseases.

Clinic at Budhanilkantha

The organisation has two clinics, a kindergarten, school and accommodation. As much as possible they try to be self sufficient and have land in the hills, growing fruit trees, vegetables and raising chickens. Many cottage industries are undertaken in the areas of knitting, paper making, weaving, toys and creation of wonderful clothing made from imported Thai Silks. Many of the crafts are exported to Germany and sold in a shop run by the founder of the Organisation to raise money.

Children Dressed in Donated Winter Clothing

Their requirements are in the areas of teaching, medicine, nursing, handcraft, painting and building. If you do not have any of these skills you are always welcome to visit and play with the children.

For further information either call at the premises in Gausala near the Kathmandu Village Hotel or e-mail shantileprahilfe@gmx.de

Mother Teresa's Clinic

Komal suffered from Viral Meningitis

This establishment caters for sick children from remote villages in Nepal. The children suffer from a variety of conditions such as TB, malnutrition, childhood ailments and viral meningitis. They are cared for by the Sisters of Charity for as long as necessary and then returned to their homes. Some of the children are orphans and therefore reside in the home. They attend school so that their education is not ignored.

Their volunteer requirements are in the area of playing with the children, minor teaching, feeding babies and generally giving the children tender loving care. Mostly volunteers are required in the mornings as in the afternoons they have a rest period.

Senior Group Waiting to do Drawings

The premises are located at Mitra Park which is off the Ring Road close to Chabahil.

In conjunction with Mitra Park the Sisters of Charity also need assistance in the old folk’s home at Pashupathinath. Here volunteers can be in the medical and nursing fields, or just caring people who wish to assist with washing, feeding and generally tending the aged population in the home.

The Sisters of Charity have a school close to Boudhanath Stupa where children of poor parents are taught in the mornings. In the afternoons the children go home and the mothers come in to the centre and are given lessons in art and craft, thus enabling them to establish cottage industries to raise income.

I believe that the Sisters also have a disabled home where they need help.

For more information : visit the Aged Home at Pashupathinath or the Head Office which is at Mitra Park. Walk down the road alongside Mitra Park and about twenty yards from the Ring Road there is are big metal gates outside a three storey building. Knock and you will be given information about the areas in which volunteers are required.

Working with Street Children

Dr. Shuddh Rauniyar has set up an organisation to assist street children gain an education. The idea is that every child who attends school in the morning gets a morning meal and those attending in the afternoon receive an evening meal. Attendance at school is mandatory to receive the food. Meal times are at 8.45 am and 6.45 pm.

Assistance is needed in the distribution of meals and care in the infant centre. The Doctor also has a programme which incorporates Children’s Food and Scholarship Sponsorships. This Scholarship programme is aimed at providing assistance for Village Students.

Contact: Dr. Shuddh S Rauniyar at Homeopathic Clinic, Rauniyar Niwas, Indrachowk, Kathmandu – phone 271473, 274473, 229473 or fax 977 1 271570. (Indrachowk is close to Durbar Square)

Website : www.streetchildrenofnepal.org