Nepal - 37 kids to be rescued from orphanage

37 kids to be rescued from orphanage

The District Child Welfare Board (DCWB), Kathmandu, has initiated
process to rescue 37 children from Rasuwa Langtang Liring Orphans
Society at Gatthaghar of Bhaktapur, which lacked basic facilities to
run an orphanage.
Wangda Lopchan, the president of the society, and the board today
reached an agreement to let the government rescue the children after
the society failed to maintain required basic facilities and services
to run the orphanage. Bal Uthan Club, a child club at Sano Thimi, had
complained the board against the orphanage in January, saying that
children were being kept there in congested rooms and the orphanage
lacked basic facilities like toilets and kitchen.
"Conflict between the members of the society Wangda Lopchan and Lamu
Tsering led the donors to terminate their support to the orphanage,"
said secretary of the board Gyan Bahadur Lama, adding that the
orphanage then failed to maintain the facilities.
The orphanage was registered with Kathmandu DAO in 2004-05 to run at
Baneshwor-10, but
was shifted to Gathaghar without informing the authorities.
The board had also rescued 35 children on February 26 from the
Apostolic Youth Bible School run by a Korean national Yi Sokin at
Manamaiju. The school was accused of running it illegally, abusing the
children and keeping them in dire straits.
In another case of abuse of children in orphanages, Nirmala Thapa had
filed a complaint against Helpless Children Protection (HPC) on
February 17 saying that the HPC sent her three kids to Spain without
informing her. Likewise, 11 children were rescued from Disabled and
Orphan Children Protection Centre on January 18.