Child Welfare Scheme Hong Kong

Child Welfare Scheme is changing the lives of children in Nepal - one of the poorest countries in the world. This small charity works in the slums, streets and remote mountain villages of Nepal to reduce poverty, improve health and education and give opportunities to children and young people who desperately need a second chance in life; they include street children, child labourers and girls who have been trafficked into prostitution.

Mission

Through the efficient use of funds, Child Welfare Scheme empowers and enables its local partners to work with communities to reduce poverty and improve the health, education and opportunities of disadvantaged children and youth in order to give them a second chance in life.

Philosophy

- To strive to reduce infant mortality

- To give every young person the right to a second chance in life

- To enable villagers in remote mountain districts to build effective facilities for young people

- To help and encourage villagers to run and maintain their own Day-Care/Health Centres, and achieve independence and self-sufficiency

- To empower youth from deprived and disadvantaged backgrounds and reintegrate them into society

- To provide medical support and help the poor and disabled youths, and help them to regain their confidence

- To waste no resources, and to keep overheads to a minimum in order to maximise the proportion of donated funds going directly to support the aims of Child Welfare Scheme and Child Welfare Scheme Nepal

- To promote community awareness and the involvement of local cultures as an operational priority

- To exchange views, opinions, and information with relevant organisations in achieving more effective collaboration and networking, and to help empower one another

- To promote the principles and practice of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989)