Kathmandu, Jan. 24: Many children go missing in Nepal every year.
Some are found later whereas status of some others remains unknown forever.
According to the Balbalika
Khojtalas Samanwaya Kendra, a centre for searching for missing kids and
rehabilitating them, 13,931 children went missing in the past seven years and
of them, the centre rescued 8,305 whereas status of 8,305 is still unknown.
The centre which was established with a view to fighting against
child trafficking, finding the missing children and rehabilitating them is in a
sorry state due to scarcity of resources and budget.
The centre is unable to manage a shelter for those kids who are yet
to be rehabilitated in their families. Due to this, it has to take help from
the private organisations for their protection, centre programme officer Bhim
Bikram Shahi said.
During the seven-year history since its establishment, the centre
recovered 2,678 children in an unattended condition and 2,335 have already been
reinstated in the family. Remaining 238 are being provided shelter at a private
child home.
Besides, it has been facing more difficulty to take care of the
disabled children. It does not own sufficient vehicles to transport children
from one place to another and take them hospitals during illness, centre police
inspector Keshabraj Bhandari said.
Disabled and mentally-retarded children need regular checkups and
but we have to go through a tough situation while taking them to respective
health
institute in the unavailability of
transport service, Central Child Welfare Committee Chairman Dilliram
Giri shared the problem resulted from budgetary constraint. We are holding discussions with the
government bodies about the matter of solving this problem, he added.
The center was established at initiatives of Ministry of Women,
Children and Social Welfare and Central Child Welfare Committee. source : RSS
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