Giri has been out of contact for almost two months, leaving 51 orphans in lurch. [break]
Child Right Fund (CRF), that was supporting the orphanage, has written to the Social Welfare Council expressing reluctance to continue funding the same orphanage and seeking government´s approval to allow Voice of Children (VoA), another NGO, to take care of the children for the time being.
The CRF, an initiative of Nobel Prize winners, is based in The Netherlands.
The CRF has sent a carbon copy of the letter to Central Child Welfare Committee (CCWC) and Kathmandu District Child Welfare Board (DCWB).
"We have been asked to rescue 51 children living at Sunaulo Pravat Bal Griha immediately," said Lochan Regmi, monitoring officer at CCWC. According to Regmi, CCWC is working to rescue the children in cooperation with DCWB.
DCWC is trying to talk CRF into extend funding to SPBG for a few more months as the educational calendar is about to come to a close and the children would miss school if they are immediately relocated.
R Brochard, president of CRF, wrote to the council on February 10 saying the fund will not support SPBG after January, but will continue support for a few more months until VoA finds a long-term solution.
VoA is a Nepali NGO that has been working for street and sexually abused children for a decade now. In 2007, it was involved in rescuing children from an orphanage run by a Dutch pedophile.
Meanwhile, the police are still looking for operator Giri who fled with Rs 1.9 million meant for the orphanage. Sunita Shah, chief of DCWC, said Giri had transferred all the money to his personal account initially. Though DCWB blocked his account, it turned out that he had already withdrawn all the money.
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