Established:
  1992

  Caring For:
  285 children, 22 women

In 1992, the Honourary Consul General of Nepal in Canada, Dr. Kunjar Sharma, invited Child Haven to start a program in Nepal.

The children attend the local Bhaktapur English Medium School. The Nepali and Newari languages are also spoken in the home.

Some of these children had been living in a Nepali jail with their mothers who had been sentenced to long prison terms. The first two children were released from Kathmandu Women's Prison on October 4, 1992. Since then, four more children from the prison have joined them at Child Haven. The program provided frequent visits to the jails so the children could stay in touch with their mothers. Most of the mothers are now released.

In addition to caring for destitute children and employing fifteen women in our Nepal home, Child Haven is providing support to disabled women attending a vocational computer training program in Kathmandu. Child Haven has also provided funds for a local woman, social worker Shashi Kala Singh, to set up a cottage industry, training and employing local women as weavers.

NEWS from Nepal

2007
• Library planned for 2008
• Recent photos