Nepal: Watabaran Mobile Health Service for Street Children
Child Watabaran Center Nepal set up the Watabaran Mobile Health Service for Nepal’s street children, with a special focus on the slightly older boys who are no longer easy to reach, rejecting every kind of approach. These youths too, who cannot or do not accept regular aid any more, need to learn to care for themselves and each other. They need to know what hygiene is. That they shouldn’t bandage their wounds with plastic or dirty clothing, and that they shouldn’t try to stop bleeding with mud. The Watabaran Mobile Health Service wants to prevent epidemics, and safeguard the children from diseases such as scabies, typhoid, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. In order to realise this goal, the Watabaran Mobile Health Service seeks out the children, and organises health camps at least every three months. The hope is that contact with the health workers will provide an opening allowing reintegration into society.
Three times a week, a team of nurses and educational specialists head out to the places where the children sleep together, providing first aid and basic health care. Net4kids financially supports the bus from which the services are provided, as well as covering operational costs and the health camps. Since 2006, (mobile) care has been available again. 1667 children have made use of the opportunity, while an even larger number reaps the benefits, as the children share their newfound knowledge and skills with others.
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1667 |
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€ 7.875 |
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