It has been learnt that NKP, an NGO working for welfare of HIV infected children, has asked 18 children to leave its hostel in Dhangadhi. [break]
However, the families of four of them have refused to accept the children. Their parents have died long ago due to HIV/AIDS.
NKP chief Rajiv Kaphley said, “The children slept on the school ground the first night and spent the second night in a nearby jungle.
Accham Dilu, a six-year-old student at NKP, said that she doesn´t know where to go. “I have no idea where to go,” said Dilu.
Similarly, 45 children staying at the NKP hostel in Shivapuri have also been asked to return to their villages next month after their final exam in April.
“Since we don´t have budget, we have no option other than to send the children back home,” Kaphley said. Kaphley said the donors have refused to continue support to HIV infected children staying at NKP´s hostels.
According to NKP, more than 20 of the 45 children living at its hostel in Shivapuri have nowhere to go as their parents have already died. Worse still, about 50 percent of the children living at the hostel are undergoing Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART). “I wonder how the children will continue the treatment, said Kaphley.
Those undergoing ART treatment need sufficient diet, but the children -- aged between 6 -15 years -- have been an uncertain future facing them. “I know they will not get sufficient food,” he admitted.
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