Save the Children

Save the Children has been operating in Nepal since 1976. The National Plan of Action for Children and the UN Millennium Development Goals serve as the foundation for its initiatives to better the lives of children in Nepal. It is the biggest organization in Nepal devoted to children, serving a huge geographic region with a variety of programs that promote the goal of ensuring that every child has the opportunity to enjoy the rights to survival, safety, growth, and participation.

In order to provide them a stronger role to play in achieving children's rights, it collaborates with key child rights stakeholders including children, communities, civil society organizations, media, and government. By enhancing healthcare and education systems and assisting localities in better preparing for and responding to catastrophes, it seeks out long-term solutions that will benefit kids and their communities.

Currently, it works with over 100 partners (including the Government of Nepal) in 63 districts of Nepal in the areas of Childs Rights Governance, Child Protection, Education, Health and Nutrition, Livelihoods, HIV and AIDS and Humanitarian Response.

Function

Child Poverty

Through activities that generate money and employment, Save the Children's Child Poverty initiatives assist families and households in reducing hunger and improving their financial security. It makes vulnerable families more equipped to absorb any economic shocks or hazards, such as an increase in food prices, so they can better deal with the underlying causes of poverty. It reaches out to families in need, especially those with children who are dropping out of school, families with children who have impairments, and families whose kids are at risk of abuse and exploitation. Additionally, Save the Children works to create a policy environment that is favorable to reducing malnutrition, chronic hunger, and enhancing food security. Youth can receive information about job openings, employment orientation, and training for migrant workers thanks to the Promotion of Youth Information Centers.

Child Protection

The child protection program of Save the Children strives to stop and deal with child abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. The child protection work has placed a priority on constructing and improving local as well as national child protection systems. Locally, Save the Children can work to protect children. For instance, has continued to be noteworthy through the establishment and development of Village Child Protection Committees. To increase their capacity for child protection, Save the Children also works in partnership with the Central and District Child Welfare Boards, the Women and Children Service Centers (of the Nepal Police). More importantly, Save the Children gives kids the tools they need to take responsibility for their own safety.

Child Right Governance

The organization's capacity building initiative encourages the creation of youth clubs that encourage and improve child engagement. Trainings for teachers and community volunteers are often included, as are support networks that promote child participation. It assists the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in monitoring children's rights and following up with the administration on the application of recommendations pertaining to children's rights. It encourages networks and organizations in civil society to monitor and advocate for children's rights.

Education

Under its basic education program, it works with primary schools, focusing on bringing out-of-school children to school, assisting teachers in adopting active teaching strategies for health and learning, and ensuring that young children receive the best support possible during the most important first few years of their lives so that they are physically, emotionally, and intellectually curious. It collaborates with communities, schools, and teachers to support young children's early literacy, writing, and numeracy abilities.

It aims to remove all forms of prejudice, punishment, and political meddling from schools through campaigns like "Schools as Zones of Peace" and "Learn without Fear" (which opposes corporal punishment). It also collaborates with the educational system, local governments, and schools to increase accountability and boost the capacity of educational institutions. It makes it possible for you to build drinking water and restroom facilities while also guaranteeing that kids have access to vaccinations, deworming treatments, and iron supplements.

Humanitarian Responses

Providing shelter, secure areas for kids to play, temporary classrooms, emergency nutrition interventions, mobile health services, necessary home and hygiene supplies, clean water and sanitation facilities, and food are all included in the program for humanitarian relief and recovery. A disaster's detrimental effects on vulnerable communities are lessened by Save the Children's assistance in helping them get ready for the potential of one. Through schools and disaster communities, it primarily teaches kids about disaster preparedness.

Health and Nutrition

To ensure that every child can overcome treatable and avoidable illnesses and receives nourishment for survival and growth, it collaborates closely with the Government's Ministry of Health and the Department of Health Services for Population. Through community and health institutions, it offers services for expectant mothers, new babies, and kids while aiming to increase access and quality through programming and advocacy. Utilizing the already-existing community-based structure, it engages the neighborhood to generate demand for care.

One of Rescue the Children's main areas of focus is maternal and newborn health, where they train community health volunteers and frontline medical staff to save mothers and newborns. The courses cover nutrition for infants and young children, community-based neonatal care, and midwifery skills. Additionally, it helped the government create a three-part newborn care package that was initially tested in Bardiya by Save the Children. Additionally, it encourages the government to expand community-based growth monitoring programs and Infant Young Child Feeding Counseling Programs (IYCF). It provides fundamental health and nutrition education for students and instructors in schools, conducts hearing, vision, and dental screenings of students, and supports additional treatment as needed.

HIV and AIDS

To ensure that children and families affected by HIV and AIDS can live positively and productively without facing discrimination, Save the Children collaborates with local communities, networks, non-governmental organizations, and governmental bodies. In order to increase greater access to HIV-related services in 39 districts of Nepal, Save the Children is assisting 54 partner NGOs.

Additionally, knowledge and skills are given to families and children impacted by HIV and AIDS so they can better their standard of living. The idea of social volunteers has been strengthened with a variety of specialties, such as social volunteers against AIDS, peer educators, female community health volunteers, and People Living with HIV and AIDS self-help groups, to meet the program priorities.

Other functions:

• Sabal
• Global Fund-HIV, TB and Malaria Program
• Multi country South Asia Global Fund HIV Program
• Working together for school safety