Brief background on VOC
Voice of children is ready to celebrate its 10th year of operation as an organization running for the welfare of the street children. It was established in 2000, though the support to four street children was already in existence since 1994. It was established with an approach to social work addressing the issues of street children, building them as self reliant citizens and mainly focusing on their reintegration with their families.
VOC, under the three main projects 1) Street Children Project, 2) Children and Family Support Project and, 3) Project Against Child Sexual Abuse, running successfully, focuses its wide variety of activities on the issues of child rights creating an anti abuse pattern for the children through seminars, workshops and campaigns, providing empowerment to vulnerable families and wave a path for them to their access to various services and holistically motivate children to stand on their own feet through step wise support and guidance in building their own future, also assisting youths to engage in vocational trainings, find jobs and acquire legal documents such as citizenship documents and women’s property rights.
It also directly works with vulnerable children from the grass root level by rescuing the street children in case of emergency, interacting with them to know their interest and creating a warm welcome for them to enter the organization providing them support in socialization aspects, education, empowerment and reintegration.
VOC, as it is named, serves as a voice for children and vulnerable families and motivates them to raise their own voices through leadership attribution and being the citizen of Nepal.
Vision
Create a world where every child has the right to respect, love, care and education to be able to choose his/her life.
Mission
Rehabilitate the street children (of Nepal) by improving their living conditions and building strong foundations with them for a better future.
Goal
Assist the street children to leave street and support them to turn in to the normal life by rehabilitating and reintegrating them in to the family or society.
Objectives
- Providing street children with basic needs and motivating them to leave the street
- Providing support to the families of street children through a better access to services
- Rebuilding ties between street children and their families
- Protecting street children from all kind of abuse and abduction through children's and civil society involvement into awareness programs
- Empower vulnerable families to prevent children coming in the street
- Sensitize authorities and stakeholders on issues related to child sexual abuse, pedophilia and sex tourism.
- Improve the living conditions of vulnerable families by empowering their capabilities to increase their access to available services.
To achieve these goals VOC applies a special methodology which includes
- Educational follow up;
- Referent educator system;
- Psycho-social counseling;
- Child's Action Planning.
