Nepal Social Development and People Empowerment Center (NESPEC)

Education, Skills and Micro-Enterprise Campaign

Education:

Under NESPEC's education awareness program, 115 children from 11 Village Development Committees of Udayapur District were admitted to schools with the collaboration and support of the District Education Office (DEO). Through a similar process of leveraging the DEO, two Community Child Development Centers have been established for the overall development of 36 children ranging from two to five years of age.

With the support of SEBS and The Daywalka Foundation, NESPEC distributed scholarships to 24 Dalit and Janajati girls from remote areas of Udayapur District in order to support their regular attendance in school and their educational improvement.

With the support of the United Nations Development Program SPDI, 817 people from marginalized groups and remote areas of the district were provided with community education about conflict management, mediation, human rights and humanitarian law. Under the Child Peace Zone campaign, 473 children from 14 schools from the same areas were united and included in children's clubs for conducting educational enhancements to their own overall development.

Skill & Micro-Enterprise:

250 unemployed women were given skills training including such micro-enterprise activities as the making of soap, incense sticks, gift glasses and cloth flowers, as well as food preparation, glass painting, and jute snipping.

30 youths were trained for employment in rural aggrovate work and were given basic electrician training with the help of the United Nations Development Program SPDI, DSI, and NESPEC's core fund.