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Friendship Orphan Rehabilitation Centre

Name of Project : FRIENDSHIP ORPHAN REHABILITATION CENTRE (FORC)
Location / Site of the Program: Banepa (Outside the Kathmandu Valley)
Project Duration: 3 Years (Extension to be made thereafter)

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Donations for this project can be sent to

Burbank Noon Lions Charities, Inc. - FORC
First State Bank, Burbank, CA

Federal I.D. No. 95-4176169
Public Charity 501(c)(3) (California)
State Charity Registration No. CT-66926

INTRODUCTION:

In Nepal, children below the age of 16 make up 41% of the total population. Children are the human resources of solidarity. A child is the man or woman of tomorrow; thus it is necessary to protect the children.

The UN convention on the rights of children has ensured that every child in the world has the right to survival, development, protection and participation. This ensures the right to protection from every sort of exploitation and harm; children are regarded as a source of hope and inspiration for the future. However, an overwhelming majority of children in the world are deprived and denied their fundamental rights. This situation is particularly so alarming in the third world countries where a big majority of children in this part of the world are not only suffering from hunger, malnutrition, exploitation and abuse, but ultimately survive a painful life.

A developing country like Nepal cannot remain unaffected by these problems where the pictures of children are more pathetic. A recently carried out survey study in Nepal has exposed that 2.6 million children are forced to work in different industries, with at least 40,000 children serving as bonded laborers. Five thousand children are working and living on the streets annually, and 12,000 women and children are trafficked to India for the sex trade.

Children's development is a holistic process, as it cannot be compartmentalized into just health, nutrition, education and social and emotional variables. All of these aspects are interwoven in a child's life. It has thus created a need of comprehensive childcare and childhood programs.

SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL:

The Lions Club of Kathmandu Friendship now seeks $ 100,000 for the immediate implementation of child rehabilitation and development programs, which will allow us to:

Establish a rehabilitation centre for the children servicing approximately 80 to 100.
Support children for formal education by running classes for them.
Have regular health, nutritional and growth assessment to support better health and hygiene.

BACKGROUND

This initiative was an attempt to add some contribution towards the National building process by consolidating, promoting and protecting the rights of children. Issues regarding the protection of exploited children including child labor and street children as well as the major problem of girl trafficking, are the areas of special interest.

As Lions Clubs International wishes to encourage the participation of women, it is important to ensure that the female children also have the opportunity to education and leadership as potential Lions of the future. We have already addressed this task by providing shelter and scholarships for 12 orphans and homeless children and we want to enhance our efforts on their behalf by expanding to serve more.

Over the years, particularly after the ratification of the UN convention on the rights of the child (CRC) in 1990, Nepal has joined the world community to ensure the rights of the children in the world in general and in Nepal in particular.

Nepal ratified several international and regional conventions dedicated for promotion and protection in accordance with this. Besides Nepal has also declared its time bound program for the alleviation of poverty, illiteracy eradication, elimination of child labor and other child related issues. Some of our targets and goals were achieved if not all. However, there is a big gap between planning and implementation. The children from 0-6 years of age are usually neglected in the development programs in Nepal. The Lions Club of Kathmandu Friendship has therefore been planning to conduct a child rehabilitation and development program outside the Kathmandu Valley where government programs are severely lacking.

Targeted Groups	Program Component
Primary Target Group	• Conduct Baseline Survey • Community Assessment • Recurrent Assessment • Person to Person Direct & Follow Up • Group Discussion • Former Education / Training • Care & Support Program to the Disabled/Street Children/Girls Trafficated to India • Conduct Mid-Term Evaluation • Follow Up
Secondary Target Group	• Advocacy • Interaction • Orientation Training • Group Discussions • School on Prevention Child Abuse

CALENDAR OF OPERATION

Work Plan: Year One

Project Activities

Project Organization (i.e. Fixed Offices Kathmandu / Regional Office FORC)
Set up Financial & Administrative System

Human Resource Development By:

Hiring Staffs

Conducting Orientation & in service outreach educational training

Conducting Peer Education Training for FORC Staffs

Conducting a Volunteer Training Program

Baseline Survey / Community Assessment by:

Conducting Baseline Survey

Conducting Community Assessment

Conducting Ongoing Community Assessment

Participatory Communication Awareness Intervention with FORC Activities

Conduct Orientation Training among Primary & Secondary Target Groups

Run Rehabilitation Centre

Mobilize Teachers and Volunteers

Developing & Conducting School Programs

Monitoring & Reporting

Submit Quarterly Operational Plan

Submit Monthly Financial Report

Submit Quantity Progress Matrix

Submit Quarterly Narrative Report

Filing Data Report Keeping ½ yearly Reports Submission and Monitoring

Orientation for Project Staff

Internal Evaluation Mission Year One

Work Plan: Year Two

Project Activities

Community Assessments

Conduct Ongoing Project Assessment

Participatory Communicative Awareness Intervention with Program Activities

Conduct Person to Person Outreach Education in Targeted Groups.

Conduct Orientation Training among Primary & Secondary Target Groups.

Run Rehabilitation Centre

Mobilize Volunteering Teachers

Conduct School Programs

Capacity Building

Maintain existing organizational linkages & create new linkages

Monitoring & Reporting

Submit Quarterly Operational Plan

Submit Monthly Financial Report

Submit Quarterly Progress Matrix

Submit Quarterly Narrative Report

Filing Data's Record Keeping ½ Yearly Reports

Supervision and Monitoring

Orientation for Project Staff

Internal Evaluation Mission Year Two

Work Plan: Year Three

Project Activities

Community Assessments

Conduct Recurrent Assessment

Participatory Communicative Awareness Intervention with Program Activities

Conduct Person to Person Outreach Education in Targeted Groups.

Conduct Orientation Training among Primary & Secondary Target Groups.

Run Rehabilitation Centre

Mobilize Volunteering Teachers

Capacity Building

Maintain existing organizational linkages & create new linkages

Monitoring & Reporting

Submit Quarterly Operational Plan

Submit Monthly Financial Report

Submit Quarterly Progress Matrix

Submit Quarterly Narrative Report

Filing Data's Record Keeping ½ Yearly Reports

Submit Draft Final Report

Submit Final Report

Supervision and Monitoring

Phase out of the Project

Final Evaluation Mission of Project

Objectives

Provide shelter for homeless and orphan, disabled, street and trafficked children.
Support children formal education.
Have regular health, nutritional and growth assessment of children.
Creating awareness on child regarding issues like non-discrimination, protection, development and participation.

There are numerous reasons for this:

Issues:

a) Freedoms and Protection:

In Nepal 41% of the total population are children below 16. The inherent right of all children are now guaranteed by international and Nepalese law. Within two years of the convention ratification, the Nepalese children act 1992 came into effect. All children now have legal rights to free expression, family education, recreation and health care in Nepal. Special protection is guaranteed. For children under difficult circumstances including those with the double disadvantage of being born female.

b) The Disabled Child:

In Nepal out of 2.5 million disabled people 5% are children. The disabled generally live in isolation, with few opportunities, so they need protection and opportunities.

c) Street Children:

In Nepal about 5,000 children are living and working in the street. The number of street children I Nepal is on rise. The children are forced to lead an unprotected life and remain easy pray to exploitation and maltreatment.

d) Girl Trafficking:

Annually 12,000 women and children are trafficked to India. From every corner of Nepal, young girls have drawn into the sex trade by force. Each year, thousand are sent to the brothels of India and thousands become sex workers in Nepal. Studies have identified the need for public awareness campaigns to promote the establishment of model projects for the prevention of girl / women the discouragement of sex trade and the rehabilitation of girls who have escaped.

e) Exploiting the youngsters:

About 2.6 million children are engaged in different sector of child labor. In an agrarian society such as Nepal, it is expected that most children must work for their families' welfare. However, thousands of Nepalese children spend their childhood working for the welfare of strangers in restaurants, at carpet looms and construction sites.

Duration of the project:

A period of six months is necessary to establish a rehabilitation center. The duration of the project depends of the availability of funds, no agreement has been reached regarding the time required to conduct this task, but the Lions Club of Kathmandu Friendship wants to continue this project for a long period of time. Now necessary fund for three years of its program is desirable.

Project Requirement:

A building is necessary for running a rehabilitation center, which will be based outside the Kathmandu Valley.

Organization of work:

The work would require both technical and administrative staffs.

The functions of each of the above mention bodies and officers would be as follows:

The FORC executive committee: would include executive committee. It would decide upon the general policy of the program including planning and evaluation.

The director of the Project: would be responsible for execution of the project. He will also maintain liaison among the administrative staffs, volunteers, teachers and supreme executive committee.

Administrative staffs: will be responsible for handling of day-to-day administration and work under the direction and supervision of project director.

Teachers: would be selected from among educated unemployed youth.

Accommodation:

School buildings and furniture would be used to accommodate the class in the evenings. In this case the necessary lodging and fooding will be provided in rehabilitation center.

Steps to be followed:

Survey of the child:

The data of street children, the disabled child young frills drawn in to the sex trade, will be taken from different sources.

Enrolment interviewing and testing of child:

Enrolment office should be set up in proposed rehabilitation center. Some selected child would be interviewed the necessary information would be recorded (name, age, social, education background) they would be tested in order to decide whether they were completely, shelter less, disabled, street children and girl forced in sex trade. The potential child would then be listed in special registers according to age.

Evaluation:

The evaluation of the program of child development, who are admitted in rehabilitation center should be carried out through periodical tests.

The mid term evaluation of the project will take place on regular basis and the final evaluation will be carried out by our club Kathmandu Friendship to six months period to the completion of the project period.

Follow up:

A follow up program will be designed to help them practice their new skill, further their education and give them better insight into various aspects of life.

Proposal Distribution:

The FORC project was initiated on 2003 by Lions Club of Kathmandu Friendship. It was submitted to United States Lions Clubs, individual members and Convention Division Lions Colleague by Lion Mohan Lamsal on behalf of the club during the 86th Convention of Lions Clubs International, Denver, USA.

Lions Club of Kathmandu Friendship is periodically in contact with United States Lions Clubs in connection to this project. Our club is hereby informed that the United States Lions Clubs have raised fund of USD 20,000.00 for this FORC plan.

During 87th Convention of Lions Clubs International, the nominated delegate on behalf of Lions Club of Kathmandu Friendship will visit United States so as to co-ordinate with United States Lions Clubs, and Members to submit report with added objectives and work plans.

12. Budget:

Taking into consideration the reservation made to the outset, the funds required for a program of this nature would be unlimited but we are proposing approximately $100,000 (Hundred Thousand) for three years of project.

Lion Kiran Kumar Sharma
Immediate Past President: Lions Club of Kathmandu Friendship
Lionistic Year 2005 / 2006