Rehabilitation of Prisoners' Children For Their Better Future with Prisoners Assistance Nepal – Project 017
Project 017 / 2024 – 2028
Prisoners Assistance Nepal (PA Nepal) aims to address human rights issues faced by prisoners and their children in Nepal. The project tackles problems such as children living in desolate prison environments, inadequate healthcare, weak legal support, social stigma, and lack of identity documentation. Building upon a previous successful partnership from 2019-2023, the new project focuses on enhancing the well-being of prisoners' children, emphasizing education, healthcare, and reintegration into society.
- Key objectives: The project's key objectives include providing a safe and supportive environment for 60 children rescued from prison, offering daycare facilities for 15 smaller children, and implementing a reintegration program for youths. Through these initiatives, the project aims to break down social barriers, reduce stigma, and empower prisoners' children for a more sustainable and efficient reintegration into society.
- The main activities are aimed at providing a supportive environment for 60 children released from prison, including safe housing, a balanced diet, medical care, and quality education. The children are accommodated in group homes near their parents' prisons, ensuring proximity and connection. Contracts with the penitentiary department guarantee that children reunite with their parents upon release, with compassionate care and education tailored to their individual needs, including psychological support. The project also seeks to offer childcare facilities with early childhood development education and a nutritious diet for 15 younger children of prisoners, strengthening the bond between the children and their parents in prison. The reintegration program includes connections with original families, vocational training, entrepreneurship opportunities, and local networks for reintegration. Lastly, the project aims to reconnect youth with their families, avoiding relocations and emphasizing local networks, with professional training options in entrepreneurship and collaboration with local leaders, women's groups, and youth for reintegration networks.
Project details
€ 350,000
The project directly benefits 75 prisoners' children, with positive effects extending to all 190 children within PA Nepal's programs.
Prisoners Assistance Nepal (PA Nepal) is a Nepalese non-profit organisation founded in 2000 by Indira Ranamagar. It works to promote the rights and well-being of prisoners and their families, with a particular focus on children living in prison with their parents. Its mission is to provide these children with a protective environment in which they can grow up, continue their education and build a future for themselves.
The organisation meets the children’s educational and healthcare needs through children’s homes, schools and early-years facilities. PA Nepal has set up 10 children’s homes, 2 schools and 3 daycentres. These facilities aim to preserve family ties whilst providing children with a stable environment suited to their development.
PA Nepal also supports prisoners and those released from prison through social programmes, training and initiatives designed to facilitate their rehabilitation and reintegration. The programmes work with women from disadvantaged rural backgrounds to strengthen their independence and reduce the risk of exclusion after their release from prison.
Through its work, PA Nepal seeks to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion.
- Projects such as the PA Nepal Sankhu Children Home (40 children) and the Jungle Garden Home in Butabari, Jhapa (20 children) are located close to prisons to facilitate the reintegration of beneficiaries.
- Implementation of childcare centres adjacent to the central prisons in Kathmandu and Jhapa (15 children).
Equal opportunities
Education
Prison
SGD 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
SGD 4 - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
SGD 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries
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