Why Nepal?

Located between the huge countries of India and China, Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world with 42% of its population living below the poverty line.


 => 27,000 children die of dysentery every year

=> 73% of women 15 years or older are illiterate

=> Out of 2.5 million disabled people, among them 5 % are children

=> 2.6 million children are engaged in different sectors of child labor

=> At least 40,000 children are bonded laborers

=> Over 5,000 children are working and living on the streets

=> 450 pregnant mothers out of 100,000 die in childbirth every year

=> Annually 12,000 women and children are trafficked to India

=> 34 % of marriages are children under 15 years of age

=> About 100 children are in adult jails

=> There is only one Children's Hospital

=> Nepal has the number one child disappearance rate in the world

=> Only 4% of women are attended by trained health workers during childbirth

=> Every year sixty thousand children die before they their reach 5th birthday

=> Approximately 3 million children are involved in child labor

=> One in three children drop out of school

=> The first case of HIV in Nepal was reported in 1988. Since then the Nepali
     government statistics list under 60,000 cases, while The World Health
     Organization (WHO) actually reported over 200,000 cases of HIV, a much more
     realistic number.