Our Work
हाम्रो काम
Nepal is a country of stunning beauty with tremendous logistical challenges. The rugged terrain, poverty, and lack of healthcare services create formidable barriers for destitute families dealing with a child’s disability. They face agonizing decisions. If a parent must stay at home to care for a child, it means the family won’t have enough to eat. In remote areas, where the majority of people live in poverty, basic healthcare services are scarce and virtually no services exist to treat complex disabilities. In addition, there are strong beliefs that disability is due to sins from a past life.
HRDC addresses all these barriers with grit, determination, and creativity. At the community level, 52 Community-Based Rehabilitation Workers who live throughout Nepal identify the children who need our help. Mobile Medical Camps bring medical teams and care to the village level to assess children and give them a treatment plan. Some children can be treated immediately and some are referred to one of our five Province Rehabilitation Centers. Those with complex conditions are welcomed at our tertiary care hospital in Banepa, outside Kathmandu. Each child is treated by the expert medical team with tender loving care.
