From: "Dinesh Neupane"
To: LIST
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:15:11 +0530
Subject: Ministry Report For the month of August 2004
1. Peace loving children home, Kathmandu
Twenty-five boys are caring by PFN under Peace Loving Children Home, Kathmandu.
Among them, 4 children are kept in Serene Valley School as borders.
One child Mr. Man Bahadur Tamang completed SLC examination in first division.
We had big challenge to care these children. These children are growing and
each day we are facing new problem. We have to play an effective guardian role so
that they can feel children home as their own home living with their parents.
We are fully aware on the issue and we are doing best as we can. We are doing
keen observation and follow-up on their diet, education, health, desire and interest.
The children are securing good results in their examination. Six of these children
do not have sponsorship as sponsors stop sponsorship for them. We are looking for
sponsorship and we have trust on God. Mr. Rajan Dhakal is the in-charge of
Peace Loving Children Home, Kathmandu
2. Peace Loving Children Home, Pokhara
Six children are caring by PFN under Peace Loving Children Home, Pokhara.
Among them, 4 are girls and 2 are small 5 years old boys. The girls are fall between
age 12 to 15 and grade 1 to 6. These children are kept in rented flat. There is
big challenge of guardianship in this home to care them in proper way.
Mr. Saroj Gothame is the in-charge of Peace Loving children Home, Pokhara.
3. Support to Parent Program
40 children are caring by PFN under support to Parent Program. We are assisting
them in financial support, medical care, stationary, and school uniform.
This year Aita Ram Tamang had completed SLC and joined in vocational training.
We are planning to provide vocational training to the children who are facing
learning difficulty and age above 15.
We provide training according to their interest.
4. Literature Program .........
i. Book released:
The book called ‘Life After Prison’ of Nepali version was released on 8th Dec.
2003 at Central prison, Kathmandu. Prison Management Director of His Majesty’s
Government of Nepal was chief guest of ceremony. Jailers of different prisons and
representatives of different prison related NGOs were present in the Ceremony.
We had also freely distributed 800 copies to all the inmates of center prison.
Mr. Dinesh Neupane and Mr. Roshan Prajapati had written the book. The book was
printed with the help of donation from Panel Reform International and Dermote Stack, UK.
Similarly, we had free distributed the books to other prisons of Nepal.
We had distributed 220 copies to Dillibazar prison and 15 copies to Chautara prison.
We are planning to distribute in all 73 prisons of Nepal.
ii. Counseling Course Book:
We had finished writing book of counseling. We feel counseling is necessary for
inmates pre-release and released prisoners to reconcile in their society.
We hope the book will very much helpful to pre-release and released prisoners.
We are also planning to launch workshop to gather knowledge from expertise and
prisoners before publish quality book on counseling. This will be a course book
of counseling in prisons. We had vision to launch counseling program in all prisons
of Nepal with counselor. This helps to decrease crime in society, reconcile in
their society and develop positive attitudes for society and maximum
utilization of their prison time.
iii. Electronics book published:
We are providing vocational training on Electronics in our center. Book related to
electronics written in Nepali language is not available. So, we had published a book
of Electronics in Nepali language with few copies. Our electronics teacher,
Mr. Prakash Bajracharya wrote the book.
5. Prison World Bulletin
We have felt communication gap between inmates and Prison Fellowship, Nepal.
In Nepal, there are seventy-three prisons through out the country. There is no
road access in many prisons specially north belt, mountain and Himalayan regions and
it is true that there are no single volunteer and difficult to get devoted Christian
volunteer. How can we reach there and link with them? To see this dire need we have
created wonderful idea to publish 'Prison World' Bulletin in Nepali language.
We are publishing this bulletin quarterly with thousand copies and distributing
freely to prison by mail. Through this project we are able to link with inmates for help,
information and encouragement with each other's. It is like "Global Link" a publication of
PFI to National ministry.
It is our great pleasure to inform you that with this bulletin, more prisoners are
doing close contact with us and few of them are admitting in our vocational training
at Model Rehabilitation Centre. Many articles written by prisoners are coming for
publication in this bulletin. These articles are exciting with positive attitude
and with their personal feelings.
6. Library Project:
Prison is a confined area bounded by stonewalls and steel bars. Prisoners have to
spend day and night within that specific confined area. So, they spend most of their
time by just sleeping and chatting with each other. Their minds become dull due to no
work and learning. It is important to make their mind active in prison.
Library is the most effective method to make mind sharp. They get daily news and
gain knowledge that helps them to use that knowledge after released.
Therefore, we are starting library projects in different prisons and in our
training center. The prisons administrators are also highly demanding for library.
But, due to our limited resources, we could not fulfill their demand in all prisons.
This year we are planning to establish 15 libraries in 15 different prisons of Nepal
according to recommendation of Prison Management Department. Recently in coming
Friday 20th August 2004, we are going to establish library in Dhulikhel Prison,Kavre.
We will donate a table, two bookracks and two benches.
7. Model REhabilitation Center
Model Rehabilitation Center aims to encourage the offender by providing different
kinds of skill oriented and income generation training so that they can live
respectful life in the society as before without harassment and hopeless.
Mr. Sagar Thapa is the in-charge of Model Rehabilitation Centre.
a. Vocational Training:
We are providing vocational training of tailoring, electronics with house wiring
and motorcycle repairing units in our Model Rehabilitation Center. We had completed
fourth batch of vocational training. Sixty-seven people got benefit from this
program since its establishment. Now, fifth batch of vocational trainings are
running in the center. 16 released prisoners are receiving vocational trainings
on tailoring, electronics with house wiring and motor cycle repairing with welding
with free of cost.
b. Counseling:
We are providing social counseling class for all the trainees of vocational
training. The course is of 6 months in which 3 months introductory and 3 months
advance. The counseling includes psychological, behavioral, social and health
topics. This helps to change their attitude positively and maintain good health.
c. Vegetable Production:
We are producing lots of seasonal vegetables in our kitchen garden. It helps
to sustain in green vegetables required for center. All the trainees are join
in the work to produce vegetables and it helps to refresh their mind and body.
d) Facilities:
We are providing sport materials, library, newspaper, television and other
recreational goods for our trainees. These facilities help to broaden their
knowledge, to develop their personality and to spend their leisure time.
8. Partnership with vocational training department of ministry of industry, HMG
God had provided us wider vision and burden on the partnership with vocational
Training Department of Ministry of Industry, HMG. This is a new horizon in our
organization. We are doing electronics with house wiring training in our Model
Rehabilitation Center, Gothatar, Kathmandu. Seventy percent of operational cost is
beard by Vocational Training Department of Ministry of Industry, His Majesty Government
of Nepal and thirty percent cost is beard by Prison Fellowship Nepal.
Non-Christian community even authority always blames that Christian community preaching
the gospel with foreign money. But is not possible at all. That is true there are many
youth without jobs and training that is why we have decided this training to give the
jobless youth of church community of Kathmandu Valley. Just two week ago we have selected
interested seventeen youth on the recommendation of churches of Kathmandu Valley.
There were big demand for such training but this is first program with government let
hope in future may we have big plan for such areas. This is six months free training for
such youth.
Yours in Him , Dinesh Neupane
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