Supportive Environment for Children Affected by AIDS
- FUNDING PARTNER:
- World Childhood Foundations( Sweden )
- IMPLEMENTATING ENTITY:
- Shakti Milan Samaj
- TIME PERIOD:
- 1st August -2017 - 31st July 2018
- GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE:
- Kathmandu
- PROJECT TAGLINE:
- SECABA(On going )
- TARGETED GROUPS
- Children Affected by AIDS
Project Background
In past, SMS witnessed huge social stigma and patriarchal values lies on the infected and affected women (widow and single) and their children to adjust in the social setting. Currently SMS has 140 base members, out of 140 women ,95 % women are infected through husband . Most of them are widow and single women. Out of 140 ,100 women did not have legal documents like Citizenship.
CABA face problems in school in terms of disclosing their identities in school due to social stigma regarding AIDS. So, through this project, it proposed to intervene in school interms of advoacy and to mitigate social stigma regarding AIDS in school. CABA are in double trauma from families, society and schools. It has been idenfied that, there were no policy rights for CABA. There is only cash transfer provision. Government used to provide 1000 NPR for CABA children but only few organization and CABA has access to this benefits . So, this project is targetted to do policy advocacy for CABA.
Underlining such policy gaps for CABA, this proposed project runs in three modules: Research, Communication/support &Advocacy/lobbying of CAB A (Children Affected by HIV/AIDS).