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Child care centre that empowers impoverished women and protects children
A project from Women's Foundation Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal
Women’s Foundation Nepal runs two childcare centres that care for the children of single impoverished women in Nepal. This protects children from violence, trafficking and child labour and empowers women allowing them to be independent.
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Hannah D. from Women's Foundation Nepal is responsible for this project
The Women’s Foundation Nepal (WFN) works with many women who have fled their marital homes due to domestic violence or abuse and are left alone and unsupported. Leaving a marriage is considered by many in Nepal to be socially unacceptable and as a result the women are often not supported financially or emotionally by their families.
Most of these women have children and need to find employment so they can pay for their children’s food, clothing and education. However, if they have young children that are not yet in school they have a problem. Many women only earn $3 a day and on this salary affordable childcare is only a dream. Single mothers either have to take their young children to work (often tied to their backs) or leave them unattended.
Many children are injured in work place accidents in Nepal as women usually work on construction sites, in factories or selling produce on the streets. Children left unattended are often absorbed in Nepal's large and growing pool of child labour and are targets for violence, sexual abuse and trafficking into the sex trade.
As a result of this problem, WFN started running two childcare centres located in Kathmandu and Jhapa. These childcare centres provide a free day-care facility for impoverished women and children. Each childcare centre cares for around 40 children aged from six months to six years. The childcare centres provide a safe environment where women can leave their young children during the day when they go to work. The children play games, sing, dance and even start to learn English. As many of the children come from violent homes we provide a loving and caring environment to allow them to recover. We also provide the children with all their necessary vaccinations.
The childcare centres have two fundamental benefits:
• They empower abused women by allowing them to focus on their careers with the knowledge that their children are being kept in a safe environment;
• They directly protect children from violence and abuse.
We believe that by providing these facilities for the women of Nepal we are fostering social change. If women believe that they can be independent and care for their children alone, then they are more likely to leave abusive marriages. Through our many projects, WFN aims to give women a choice.
WFN currently has a funding crisis for the childcare centres and we desperately need your help to keep them open. Without the centres 80 young children all below the age of six will have to accompany their mother’s to work or be left alone.
Most of these women have children and need to find employment so they can pay for their children’s food, clothing and education. However, if they have young children that are not yet in school they have a problem. Many women only earn $3 a day and on this salary affordable childcare is only a dream. Single mothers either have to take their young children to work (often tied to their backs) or leave them unattended.
Many children are injured in work place accidents in Nepal as women usually work on construction sites, in factories or selling produce on the streets. Children left unattended are often absorbed in Nepal's large and growing pool of child labour and are targets for violence, sexual abuse and trafficking into the sex trade.
As a result of this problem, WFN started running two childcare centres located in Kathmandu and Jhapa. These childcare centres provide a free day-care facility for impoverished women and children. Each childcare centre cares for around 40 children aged from six months to six years. The childcare centres provide a safe environment where women can leave their young children during the day when they go to work. The children play games, sing, dance and even start to learn English. As many of the children come from violent homes we provide a loving and caring environment to allow them to recover. We also provide the children with all their necessary vaccinations.
The childcare centres have two fundamental benefits:
• They empower abused women by allowing them to focus on their careers with the knowledge that their children are being kept in a safe environment;
• They directly protect children from violence and abuse.
We believe that by providing these facilities for the women of Nepal we are fostering social change. If women believe that they can be independent and care for their children alone, then they are more likely to leave abusive marriages. Through our many projects, WFN aims to give women a choice.
WFN currently has a funding crisis for the childcare centres and we desperately need your help to keep them open. Without the centres 80 young children all below the age of six will have to accompany their mother’s to work or be left alone.
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