outcome

The children are now being provided with tuition support and stationery, and the Mithila Wildlife Trust has been working on getting citizenship certificates for them. So far, 11 children have been able to enroll at the local school while our colleagues continue to work on obtaining certificates for the remaining four children. This means that we have an arrangement mirroring that at Dhanushadham where children attend school alongside receiving tuition support with extra lessons and homework at separate tuition centers. Ritik and Ramesh asked us if the extra tuition could be extended to 44 Musahar children in the community outside the colony. I was surprised at this as leprosy is highly stigmatized and feared in Nepal. However, the Nepal Leprosy Trust has been working on these attitudes locally and the families of these Musahar children are now happy for them to go inside the colony to attend the tuition center in total safety.