Rasuwa

Rasuwa Reintegration Centre

In April 2011 Umbrella opened the Rasuwa Reintegration Centre to bring 59 children home!

The need for a child to be with their family or community of origin has been long identified by many international bodies and standards including the UN’s charter on the rights of a child and has been at the forefront of Umbrella’s mission and work since its inception.

Umbrella has rescued over 360 children, from many different districts of Nepal. The majority of these children were victims of child trafficking. Umbrella’s priority is not only to meet a child’s needs post rescue but to address their psycho-social development needs and to play our part in addressing the root causes of trafficking in Nepal.

Some regions of Nepal are more vulnerable to trafficking due to their proximity to Kathmandu or the regions lack of education and or low economic status. The district of Rasuwa is one such region and is the region of origin of Fifty-nine of our youngest children.

Through our work with Next Generation Nepal we were able to safely reunify twenty-seven children directly their families. We are still working closely with the other families through our social workers in the area and our ultimate goal will always be to get the children back to their families. Reunification is a sensitive area of work and not one that should be rushed.

We opened a transition home in Shyaphrubesi, Rasuwa, as a means of reuniting the other Rasuwa children with their communities of origin, while maintaining their health, well-being and safety. The transition home will be the centre for our continued efforts to reconnect the children with their families. Thirty-two children are now living in this home, surrounded by their own customs, culture and importantly, their families! 

Research shows the primary goal of migration to Kathmandu is for better education; to combat this root cause and to weaken child trafficker’s chief tool, we have made commitments to improve the schools. We hope this will ebb the flow of children toward the capital and will keep families together. Implementing this project will change the perceived imbalance between Kathmandu and rural villages primarily on the issue of education.