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CHILDREN
In the unindustrialized or industrialized world, increasing unemployment and poverty resulted in an increase in the number of children needing special protection. Policy shifts and budgetary problems unraveled social safety nets, contributing simultaneously to an increase in the number of children placed in substitute care and a deterioration in the conditions of care. 
The conditions that caused children to live in especially difficult circumstances did not appear likely to diminish, and few new resources would be devoted to remedying such problems. UNICEF estimated that countries would devote only a small amount--an annual addition of $1.05 per child to the end of the century--toward the conditions of children at risk. Although industrialized nations pledged at least 0.7% of their gross national product in official development assistance to the less developed world, only Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and The Netherlands had followed through on this commitment.
Nevertheless, in the 1990s there was a gradual acceptance worldwide that children had legal rights, and children themselves were increasingly aware of these rights. Until 1995 the main focus of UN agencies had been universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. With this goal near, the focus shifted to implementation of the convention, which would truly benefit children.
 
WHY IN NEPAL WITH US ?
The underdeveloped nation like Nepal, when asked for the assistance in the same many of the NGOs & INGOs have been purposed or established in this land. Some of them are true to their words but some ................ Its really difficult to determine if all the provisions that we get from other nations reach the needy children here. The child of even Budhanilkantha, a place which comes under Kathmandu District (the developed city & capital of Nepal) is far away from the light of education. Their daily work seems simply to look after their cattle & earn for their drunkard father or to see their ill mother & look after their younger & help elders in the work of field. If the Government which gets the aid for those don't even look for the place nearby then how can any of the Nepali like me expect them to visit the rural areas to look after others? I personally know many of the important government bodies (some of them retired & some are still in the chair) who didn't even have a penny in their pocket & used to beg others for a cup of tea or a plate of rice, but now, they are grown thick as leech & travel in Pajero! Can any of us now say that they are looking after others not themselves? 
So seeing the betrayal towards the children in Nepal, I with some of my friends decided to really do something in this full heartedly. And this website can also be said to be the proposal from us to all of you if you can help us in this, sharing with us your ideas & experiences. You can simply come with us and visit the rural areas & make the people understand how much the education matters  for a child. And request the institutions & government to do some proper planning in the sectors of getting someone orphaned or making them stray.
 
WHY AND WHAT ARE OUR PLANS NOW?
All of us don't really have any ideas about the way we can do something to help them. We have been to some of the rural villages of Pokhara, Chitawan & Lalitpur and been to the schools there talked to the teachers who say," The guardians here really haven't understood the value of education. They just think that its only to get some job in government office which now seems impossible. So, they don't want to waste their money educating them if again after their completion of studies they have to be the farmers like us working in the muddy fields. So, we before educating children must make the elders understand how much education matters in one's life?" A girl of 14 working in a field at Lalitpur when asked 'why don't you go to the school' said," I don't have time to go to school. I had studied till the 3rd standard but due to the overload of work at home. I have to wash the dishes at home, look my youngest sister of 2 and have to look after the buffaloes (cattle) at home. All my brothers study, I'd rather have continued my studies accomplishing the work at home early & go to school but my parents wouldn't allow for it."  So, all of us firstly thought that we must educate the grown ups of the society if we really wish to help the child learn. Its impossible for them to ratify on the Rights of the Child (The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly in 1989, affirmed the rights of the world's children to be protected against all forms of abuse, neglect, and exploitation) as UN agencies is now doing; until & unless we show them the proper value of education & the implementation of it in the normal life. And make them know that education isn't for getting jobs. When they are conscious of the value of education then all those organizations working on the field of right of child & education will sound mockery.
 
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