PA Nepal is dedicated to create an enabling environment to ensure justice for incarcerated women and their dependent children. PA Nepal believes that no children should live behind bars for the crime they didn’t commit. All children are entitled to the fundamental rights of quality of life, education and personal freedom. For that, PA Nepal has designed a strategic intervention program of five layers for rescue, recovery and social reintegration for incarcerated parents and their dependent children.
NUTRITIONAL AND PERSONAL HYGIENE SUPPORT FOR PREGNANT WOMEN AND MOTHERS WITH JUVENILE CHILDREN
PA Nepal starts providing services to children in prison from the womb onwards. Once we identify pregnant women and mothers with children, we provide basic nutritional and personal hygiene support for mothers and their children.
DAY CARE AND CHILDREN SUPPORT PROGRAM IN PRISONS
PA Nepal starts providing services to children in prison from the womb onwards. Once we identify pregnant women and mothers with children, we provide basic nutritional and personal hygiene support for mothers and their children.
ADULT LITERACY SCHOOL IN PRISONS
PA Nepal has been running the adult school in the central women jail since 2000 AD in coordination with the government. The Ministry of Education has provided one teacher where we have managed for three along with refreshments and stationeries. Along with a regular literacy and health program, we have separate classes for criminal justice, human rights along with capacity building and life enhancement training. Currently, 150 students are studying in the adult school. PA Nepal is planning to scale up the adult school in all prisons to create an enabling environment to ensure criminal justice for all prisoners in Nepal.
RESIDENTIAL CHILDREN HOMES
Once children are rescued from prison, they are brought to the central care homes. PA Nepal has two central residential children homes – Naya Bazar and Sankhu. Newcomers and young children reside in the first home, and once they accustomed to the environment they are sent to the Sankhu Home for further care and support as well as quality education. Currently, there are 189 children living in 10 homes.
SUSTAINABLE JUNKIRI PRIMARY SCHOOL
Sustainable Junkiri School (Firefly) is a unique concept developed by Indira Ranamagar. The objective of this school is that children must connect with the local culture and community of their parents. Indira believes that if children grow up in their own community, their relatives know them and take responsibility for them. This helps them to maintain their legal status along with preserving their family culture and language as well as parental property. Experience shows that keeping children away from their communities’ means they lose their language, culture and legal status along with family property. PA Nepal has three sustainable homes in Palpa, Buttabari Jhapa and Khudunabari- Jhapa where 32 children are living.
GIRLS EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION
PA Nepal extends aid to vulnerable families in rural communities in partnership with Girls Empowerment through Education (GEE), PA Nepal Helps to support disadvantaged young girls continue their education by providing them with the supplies and support necessary for academic success. Currently we are supporting 61 Girls.