Woman and Man from Saptari

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The campaign aims to reach the most deprived girls in the four target districts to help reduce their levels of discrimination and empower them their rights by the end of 2018. The campaign will also advocate for five percent increase in allocation for children the national budget especially for education, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and child protection.

Children, who have benefited from such programmes, express hope that such a campaign will help a large number of girls to get out from the vicious circle of poverty.

“There are thousands of children, especially girls, who unless special interventions are made will not be able to go to school and realise their full potential. I am sure this campaign will reach out to those needy girls,” said Saraswoti Manandhar, a former child worker. Manandhar, who was rescued from a brick factory in Bhaktapur six years ago, is  now studying at grade 10 with help from various organisations and hopes to become a nurse.
There is an alarming school dropout rate from children from Dalit community. Data shows that 51 percent of poorest women in Nepal have never had access to education. It also reveals a huge dropout among Dalits with 88 percent of them attend school at primary level but only 10.6 percent reach secondary level.

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