Progress

Since opening in March 2007, the Rainbow Children Home- Nepal has been working steadily towards the mental and physical rehabilitation of our 19 wonderful children. We are happy that all of the children now attend the National Inventive English Boarding School, most for the first time in their lives. They are making remarkable academic progress, with some of the children who have never attended school before.

The employment of a full time teacher has not only assisted the children in adjusting to school life, it has also helped with their interaction between each other and other people. Our teacher is responsible for the discipline of the children, as well as teaching them new games and basic life skills such as gardening and cleaning. Having come from such adverse, and often isolated backgrounds, many of the children upon arrival at RCH were unaccustomed to being exposed to unknown people, and did not know how to behave in an appropriate way. The children now love meeting new people and welcome them with open arm, often insisting that they join in with their latest game. They have also been taught about personal hygiene which has improved both their appearance and their general health.

The extraordinary progress of these children demonstrates the natural capability and intelligence that they possess, and which can be fostered if given the opportunity.

Current Projects

Apart from working towards the development of the children who are already in our care at Rainbow Children Home- Nepal, which is our main aim, we are also currently undertaking a project to work toward to welfare of child servants in the Pohkara region. Child servitude is an extremely common practice in Nepal, and in some cases the children are treated more like sons and daughters, rather than servant. Sadly however this is not the typical practice, and so the Director of the RCH has approached people who own child servants and has been campaigning for better treatment and conditions for these children. She has requested that all families allow these children to attend school for at least a few hours everyday, and if cost is a problem, to send them to RCH for only 2 hours everyday where our house teacher will provide them with a basic education.