We want reintegration to be sustainable. So our work has become more and more community focused. We work with some of the most demanding children and teenagers in Nepal, from impoverished backgrounds and with enormous emotional needs after abuse, severe violence and trafficking.
So we decided to open a Community Centre to be exactly that, a centre for our Asha community. This is a platform for children to learn various skills as well as for us to catch up with their progress. This is open for our residential children, our reintegrated children and for their parents, especially for their mothers.
There is a meeting room, kitchen, library, computer room and counselling room.
What We Do...
HOMEWORK CLUB
TAEKWONDO TRAINING
COMPUTER CLASS
DANCE CLASS
LIFE SKILLS
MUSIC LESSONS
COUNSELLING & PLAY THERAPY
LIBRARY
BASIC MEDICAL SKILLS
TRAINING ON SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & RIGHTS
WOMEN WELLNESS PROGRAM
CAREER COACHING
HEALTH & SAFETY TRAINING
SELF DEFENCE TRAINING
TUITION CLASS
NUTRITION EDUCATION & ASSESSMENT
OBJECTIVES
To create a place where we can provide counselling, meetings, after school child-care and health care
To create a place that reintgrated and independent girls can come to for community and support
To create a place where everyone gets opportunity to explore their unique ability and enhance their psychosocial wellbeing.
To enhance the holistic growth of the girls and teenagers in our care and their families
To learn skills
To assist them in choosing the carreer they enjoy
REINTEGRATION
The Community Centre is a place where the process of reintegration happens in the presence of the reintegrated child, her guardians, and the Ward Chairperson and Municipality Representive.
CIRCUS WORKSHOP
Some of our girls participated in the Sapana Workshop, by Circus Kathmandu. Circus Kathmandu is found and run by former circus survivors. With Sapana workshop they teach special skills to children, social skill and fun inculding Acrobatic activities, ring activities and also peer relationships and coordination with each other. The workshop ran every Saturday for 6 months.
CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS
Our Community Centre is a place where we can host events, celebrate birthdays and cultural holidays.
CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
Children of Asha participate some years in a cross-cultural sharing program with international schools.
The visiting School children work with our children to teach how to write journal entries, recognizing strengths, life goal setting, experience sharing. We in turn teach them Nepali dance, interaction, speech and mehendi.
The library is kindly supported by Books For Change.