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Project description (document 1)

Project description (document 2)

Location:

Nepal

Theme:

Health care , Street children

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2004

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Nepal: Mobile Health Service for Street Children

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Three times per week, aid organisation Watabaran Mobile Health Service visits street children in Kathmandu where they offer them first aid health care (including proactive care). A team, consisting of a health assistant, team leader/street educator, peer educator and driver, visits the places where the children hang out, and they get in contact with the young people, provide health counselling, including information on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitus, diarrhea, health and sanitation. The team also organises health camps to raise the children’s awareness of the importance of good health, and to teach them how to care for themselves.

Contribution to Mobile Health Service 2012

Funds are used to operate the mobile health service: operating costs of the van, medical kits, salaries of the counselors and peer educators. Also, funds cover the organization of 3 health camps, street dramas and 3 awareness poster campagnes.

01 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2012: 1x

Contribution to Mobile Health Service 2011

01 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2011: 1x

Mobile Health Service 2010

01 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010: 1x

Mobile Health Service 2009

01 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2009: 1x

Mobile Health Service 2008

01 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2008: 1x

The organization’s most important goal is to offer medical aid to the Nepalese street children. Youths who have to learn to take care of themselves and each other. They need to know what hygiene is. That they shouldn’t bandage wounds with plastic or a dirty cloth, and that bleeding shouldn’t try to be stopped with mud. The Watabaran Mobile Health Service wants to prevent epidemics, and keep the children safe from diseases such as scabies, diphtheria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. In order to achieve these goals, the Watabaran Mobile Health Service seeks out the children, and organizes health camps four times a year. Their hope is that contact with the health workers will open a path towards reintegration into society.

Funds are needed to make the weekly visits: running of the multipurpose van, personnel costs, basic medicine and for the organisation of the health camps (posters, staff, materials, equipment etc.).

Child Watabaran Center Nepal (CWCN)

Child Watabaran Center, Nepal (CWC, Nepal) is a non-governmental organisation established in 2002 primarily to work with the street children of Kathmandu providing them center-based education and vocational training. This is the story of Tirtha Raj Rasaili, the founder of a children’s home in Nepal, and, but far most the story of the street children of Nepal. When you look at him, he is just an ordinary person. But if you hear what he has established, you know he is not an ordinary person. Tirtha Raj Rasali was a radio reporter in Nepal when he saw the awful conditions of the street children in Nepal. He was convinced that there was a way of helping the street children turn their life into a positive direction. He discussed his idea with friends and in 2002 he put his and his friends ideas into practice by offering street children a home, family support and education. The CWCN was born.