Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Center (CWIN-Nepal)

Established in 1987, Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN) is a pioneer child rights organisation in Nepal. CWIN-Nepal is an advocacy organisation for the child's rights with a focus on children living and working under the most difficult circumstances. With a transformed federal system, CWIN-Nepal addresses all the critical child rights and child protection issues that include child labor exploitation, abandonment and neglect, sexual exploitation, lack of access to quality education and training, lack of access to quality healthcare, including mental healthcare, trafficking, and online child abuse. CWIN-Nepal carries out mass awareness campaigns on child rights, conducts policy advocacy, and works towards making government institutions more responsive and accountable to Nepal’s children for the realization of their rights and overall development. CWIN-Nepal builds partnerships with children and their associations, national alliances, international agencies and movements, government agencies, and the private sector to bring the issue of child rights onto the national agenda. It gives priority to the girls’ empowerment through the CWIN Balika (Girls) Programme. CWIN has also been undertaking a number of child development and protection services, including the Child Helplines, transit centers, and self-reliance and empowerment of children. CWIN has championed child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health issues in Nepal by initiating the first "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry OPD" at the Kanti Children’s Hospital in collaboration with its Norwegian partner FORUT-Norway and the Norwegian Psychiatric Association. Furthermore, CWIN also ventured into uncharted territory by undertaking reconstruction work necessitated by the devastating earthquake of 2015, most notably the construction of 20 schools in Dolakha with the financial assistance of the Norwegian Embassy in Nepal.