In Nepal, the civil war and economic malaise have lead to increasing numbers of children being left to their fates. They usually end up on the streets. No healthcare, no schooling. Robbed of their future, they have to fight to survive. The Shree Nepal Matri Griha Primary School programme supports these children. The organisation ensures that children can attend school, and provides social support for their families. They learn to actively contribute to improving their situation.

Thanks to the introduction of ICT lessons, increasing numbers of Ghanese children are being prepared for the future. These lessons and access to a library not only provide them with new opportunities on the job market, they also gain better insight into the world around them. However, nowhere near all elementary schools in Ghana are able to offer this to their students. Project partner To Be Worldwide is committed to ensuring these changes.

HIV/AIDS is a huge problem in the Namakkal District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Here, intense drought caused by the absence of the monsoons is resulting in a major labour migration among the population. And this is leading to an increased risk of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Another important factor contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS is road transport which is a major form of employment in this region. Drivers have unsafe contact with prostitutes and then take the disease home with them and their wives are frequently widowed. Relief services lack sufficient resources and are too sparsely distributed to be effective in dealing with the problem. Many children are direct or indirect victims of HIV/AIDS because they become infected or because their parents die from the disease. Lack of knowledge among people in the children’s environment also means that they are often stigmatised and discriminated against.

 

Society for Serving Humanity creates community support for people with HIV/AIDS, and raises awareness of the problems on a local level in order to combat discrimination. This project intends to create facilities for a training centre of SSH, to make the organisation more sustainable.