CORE INTERNATIONAL
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Mission Statement
Since 2006, donations to CORE have helped 14,000 families or individuals! It has been 16 years during which we have contributed to helping over 14,000 families or individuals in changing situations with the conflict and two major crises, the 2015 earthquake and pandemic lockdowns. With your donations, we help kids keep on studying and provide immediate assistance for those in dire need. Donations to CORE make a difference in the lives of the people we try to help! CORE provided funds for education of children of disadvantaged groups and people. As well, we supported specific activities by a Nepali NGO to provide health insurance or food and relief for disadvantaged people affected by natural disasters or the ongoing closure of the border to Tibet, China.
About This Cause
CORE helps by investing in people Rural Marginalized Community Educational Support to very disadvantaged children and women In April 2017, CORE began a project with Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (HimRights) to give scholarships to Chepang kids in Makwanpur, the district just to the south of Kathmandu. In January 2018, it offered training to the parents to help them improve their livelihoods and their appreciation of the importance of education. The Chepang don’t migrate to the city, they are truly forest people. HimRights has worked in the area for a few years already and had a field staff person ready to start visiting families to encourage them to send their kids to school and to work with the villages. Several marginalized ethnic groups inhabit the jungles of Makwanpur district. Their access to services, especially education, has been so limited that only 1% of women can read. The parents often do not understand the value of an education, so the dropout rate of the children is high. The Coordinator has worked with these communities in other projects and makes frequent visits to encourage the parents to send the children to school. A food allowance makes school attendance more attractive for the parents who struggle to have enough food for their families by collecting wild edibles from the jungle and practising subsistence slash-and-burn cultivation. Some earn minimal wages from day wages as unskilled labourers. COVID Prevention Awareness and Response In 2020, the COVID -19 pandemic brought extreme challenges and a very complex crisis for the poorest people who mostly earn day wages. For many of these people, if they do not earn that day, they do not eat that day. With all your donations, CORE provided funds to support efforts by five Nepali NGOS to assist with isolation centres in rural communities and offering food packages to families who are without their daily wages during this very strict lock down. Your help and assistance helps us to help people stay healthy and to help the health workers stay safe while working with their patients. With these organizations, we determined the priority needs and getting cost estimates for items to help households improve their hygiene and to provide protective equipment for health workers and medical staff working with Covid patients. We helped where there was less support in rural areas and a couple of districts, Dolakha and Chitwan, where CORE has worked before showed the potential to become hotspots. So far, we have provided support these organizations: Himalayan Human Rights Monitors in Makawanpur district, where CORE has an ongoing educational program for marginalized children. We distributed hygiene materials (mask, soap) to 4,622 families, PPE with health materials to local health workers, extra food rations to the families of the 100 scholarship students, and a special art class for the students on the prevention of Covid and human trafficking, which has become a problem in families without income during the lock downs. Faselung Social Service Committee in Dolakha, where distribution of hygiene materials (mask, soap, sanitizer, medicine) to 1,260 families in rural villages and PPE with health materials was given to the 24 local health workers. Clinic Nepal in Chitwan, where CORE provided funds for PPE for medical personnel at a cancer hospital being converted into covid wards. Stories of Nepal, which provided food relief and hygiene materials in many districts of Nepal, with CORE’s support targeted over 500 families in extremely poor villages near the Indian border in Saptari district. The Partners Nepal in Mahakulung municipality (far SE corner of SoluKhumbu district) for provisions and oxygen cylinders for local health posts. The fears here were that when the many locals working on climbing expeditions as kitchen staff and porters, returned to their villages, they will spread Covid contracted at the base camps. Reflections and Ways Forward ... In recent years, we were seeing changes happening in the demographics and situations of the people we aim to help. In the early years of CORE, the insurgency caused many people to flee to the relative safety of the city, but that trend changed with the peace process. Now, natural disasters and the pandemic presented challenges and for people to survive let alone improve their situations. Many of these disasters, such as in Mugu, are the result of excessive rainfall, most likely caused by climate change. Is support to any adaptation measures within the scope of what CORE can do? Ultimately, how do we help people to be better able to adapt to changes – environmental, political, economic? How do we offer support that catalyzes local governments to assume or expand the work we’ve shown can be done? So, we still have lots of strategic thinking to do... but so far, we see some ways to proceed for the long term: • More scholarships for marginalized kids • Continue support to very poor communities and encourage them to find new livelihoods, such as in Thukdam, in the high mountains. • Do more livelihood training and support in rural areas • Investigate ways of making support to premiums for health insurance more sustainable.