At WPC, we know that all children are deserving of quality care, but not all children are born into homes that can provide it. Due to overwhelming poverty and lack of education, many children in Nepal are forced into circumstances that make them grow up too quickly. We work to ensure that every child under our roof is allowed the peace and luxury of enjoying the childhood they deserve. Our Safe Home follows a group-home model founded on the core concept of family. WPC's Safe Home program provides nonviolent and secure homes for children with backgrounds of domestic violence and human trafficking.
Our Safe Home Father and Mother help raise the children as if they were their own, providing love, care, and ensuring all their basic needs are met. The program warden ensures that there are adequate food and hygiene products, standard educational materials, and plenty of activities available to the children at the home. Daily activities include homework help, classes that teach essential life skills, and plenty of time to play, learn, and grow together. Along with their daily activities, the children benefit from bi-weekly medical check-ups and monthly counseling sessions to stay physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy. With your help, we aim to offer every child equal access to the warmth and security they deserve.
Children are actively participating in Ward Network meetings to discuss and draft future investment plans for the child's club of Hetauda-18. These meetings include our Safe Home's Utshaha Child Club and others, which work to provide leadership skills to the girls in our care.
Recently, we reintegrated four girls back to their homes after their 12th-grade graduation. When reintegrating girls over 18, we always do a family assessment to ensure the girls will be safe enough to return home. In addition to our family assessment, the girls are always offered the option to choose whether or not to return to their families. When girls want to return and it feels safe enough, we are proud to offer them the option to reintegrate and do our best to celebrate their achievements both at the Safe Home and after they return to their families!
The Safe Home family is growing in numbers! We are excited to welcome our newest group of children to the home. As our older girls reintegrate, our younger girls continue to receive safe shelter, food, clothes, medical care, and other necessary life skills at the Safe Home. At times, can be difficult to convince families to let their children have access to these basic needs, because of lingering traditional ideals about what women should and should not be allowed to do. Every time we successfully integrate new girls to our program, we consider it a huge success for Nepal, and the empowerment of women and girls everywhere!