The children who wish to return to their families would not have to go back to their masters´ home again as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) that is organizing the program will ensure conducive environment for them to stay in their respective villages. [break]
The Children and Women in Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH), an NGO that advocates rights of children and women, said that such program is needed to ensure the rights of children to love and care of the family.
The organization said that hundreds of children from the districts adjoining to the capital have been toiling as domestic help in the Valley. A study conducted by International Labor Organization (ILO) on 2003 estimated that about 21,000 domestic helps have been working in capital.
Several studies have divulged that such children have been denied even their basic rights. In some instances, underage domestic servants have been victims of sexual abuses.
"We are going to organize this campaign to discourage the trend of keeping underage children as domestic servants," said Pradeep Dangol, child rights officer at CWISH, adding, "Such children have been deprived of even basic rights."
He said that the organization will provide stationary and scholarships to the students in the schools of their respective villages. The organization has also committed to assist in the livelihood of their families which would help them to keep their children with them. Due to poverty of their families, small children have been forced to work as domestic servants in the capital.
"We will provide them stationary and scholarships so that they can study in the schools in their respective villages," added Dangol. The organization said that it is right time to return the children to their family as one academic session has concluded and new session is going to start.
"Very few have been getting better education. Their masters admit them in school just to show that they have providing education," he added. He said that the children working as domestic helps are not allowed to go to schools regularly. "They have to toil at home when their masters feel necessary," he added.
The organization has urged everybody to cooperate in the reunification of children working as domestic helps with their families.
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