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CONCERN (Lead Agency )
Concern for Children and Environment - Nepal
Concern for Children and
Environment Nepal (CONCERN-Nepal) is a non-governmental
organization established in 1993. Its principal purpose is
to be an advocator for underprivileged children and their
social and natural living environment in Nepal. It assists
and protects underprivileged and working children living
in very difficult circumstances. CONCERN was officially
registered at the Chief District Office of His Majesty's
Government in 1994 and in the same year was affiliated
with the Social Welfare Council under the Women, Children
and Social Welfare Ministry.
CONCERN-Nepal began actively working in 1994 with a survey
on the situation of child-porters in the Kathmandu Valley
entitled, 'Burden on Childhood'. In the first seven years
it gained wide experience working with UNICEF, Action
Aid-Nepal, and Save the Children UK among others. In the
year 2000 it added work with Kathmandu Municipality on 5
Urban Out of School Program centres (UOSP/ Non Formal
Education) for working children in Kathmandu. CONCERN
entered into agreement with Save the Children-Norway from
1998 to 2000 and it has again renewed its agreement with
SCN until 2003.
CONCERN started its work with ILO/IPEC in 1996 as 1st
phase 16 months time bound programme for the support and
rehabilitation of child porters in Kathmandu and 2nd phase
until the end of November 2000. Now it is in the process
of developing a national time bound action programme for 5
years for child porters, one of the worst forms of child
labour. CONCERN has developed and formulated an action
programme with Plan Nepal for support and rehabilitation
of working children living in difficult conditions in
Kathmandu Valley.
Vision:
CONCERN believes that all forms of child exploitation can
be completely abolished and that the empowerment of
underprivileged children and working children in
particular is a dire necessity.
Through community awareness and different child-related
development activities, these affected children can become
self-reliant and independent.
Overall development of these children can be achieved
through the preservation and protection of their social
and natural environment.
Mission:
The mission of CONCERN is to facilitate a process that
helps to protect the Rights of the Child in general, and
in particular it acts to abolish all sorts of exploitation
of children by supporting underprivileged children and
their families. It also works to achieve a better social
and natural environment in which they live.
Objectives:
- To advocate child rights
within the community.
- To alleviate child
exploitation by reducing and removing child labour.
- To promote and preserve
a healthy social and natural environment.
- To empower children
living in high-risk conditions.
- To assist in the
economic development of underprivileged children and
their families.
- To provide current child
related information to relevant organizations and
individuals.
Contact Address :-
CONCERN (Concern for children and environment in Nepal)
Soyembhu, Ring Road, GPO Box 4543, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: 00-977-1-4280754,
Fax: 00-977-1-4277033
00-977-1-4279231
9851030656
Contact person : Mr. Bijaya Sainju
email: concern@mos.com.np
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