Published on May 20, 2013
Human Welfare Group reckons street children are in serious problem and got to be helped including high prevailing use of drugs and their vulnerabilities as a consequence. HWG has a clear plan of transferring these unfortunates and destitute through rehabilitation and thereby to make them acceptable in the society to lead their normal lives. HWG has already launched its own rehabilitation home in Bishalnagar, Kathmandu for the street children and has started rehabilitation. We already have 30 kids from 4 years old to 18 years old till date. Taking into account the sustainable healthy society, HWG will take measures to detoxify these children most of whom are prone to many chronic diseases including HIV Aids; provide training and education, food, shelter and other basic requirements so that they can also dream and live a normal life. Our team is getting trained which will enable us to handle these kids in an appropriate manner and medicate them well to get them out of drugs. In Nepal children in difficult circumstances find that even the most basic of their rights are flouted. These children who have fled the indifference, negligence, ill - treatment and sexual abuse at homes and the society end up in the street in the want of an alternative better life. HWG wants to work to relocate these destitute and abandoned children again back in the society.Street kids in Nepal are seen accustomed to inhalation of glues (Dendrites) to a larger extent and smoking cannabis to some extent. Tobacco (chewing and smoking) is wide spread. Researches have shown that these kids are using these drugs mainly for avoiding hunger and to get rid of the pain. They use drugs because of having little value attached to one's personal life; family break down and peer-group dependence are other factors that they use drugs for. We are working on strategies and ways to tackle the growing number of the street children and the use of drugs by its intervention and rehabilitation method.
