13 December 2023, Kathmandu: Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) distributed bedding items and sporting goods to two Child Correction Homes (CCH) in Banke district, Lumbini Province on 11 and 12 December 2023.
AF’s Lumbini Province Coordinator Basanta Gautam handed over the materials to Sabita Rawat, Non-gazetted officer at Naubasta CCH and Bimala Kaucha Magar, CCH Asmanpur In-charge. Banke Chief District Officer Shrawan Kumar Pokhrel, Superintendent of Police Subash Chandra Bohara and others participated in the programme.
The organization provided 150 double blankets and 4 bundles of P-foam for the juveniles kept in the CCH. It also handed over football, volleyball, chess, skipping rope, carromboard, ludo and other sporting goods for the entertainment of the juveniles.
Naubasta CCH houses 115 juveniles while 201 children in conflict of law are kept in Asmanpur CCH.
Children in both the CCH thanked AF for providing warm bedding items during the winter.
CDO Pokhrel and DSP Bohara advised the juveniles to aviod negative thinking and become ideal citizens.
Under the juvenile justice programme, AF has been providing legal, medical and material support to all the eight CCH across the country.
