Street Children Project
The second project also cares for street children. We met Dr Rickman who runs several drop-in centres throughout Kathmandu for street children (mostly boys). The children can live at the Centre if they wish or just eat there and receive a health check or education. Dr Rickman is an inspiring man whose project is growing rapidly as word spreads among the street children. At the centre we visited we saw 50-60 children playing football in the yard and met many more inside the building. Dr Rickman’s philosophy is to teach the children to protect themselves by educating them, even if very slightly, to recognize dangers and to give them some hope of a life away from the streets. He operates bank accounts for the children (over 600 currently in use when we were there). The money saved can be used by the children to go back to their villages, buy some sort of training or even to set themselves up in business in a small way.