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Namaste and very best wishes to all our children, helpers and friends! Welcome to The Talbot Foundation website, we hope you find this a useful resource. Please use the menu on the left hand side to navigate around the site.

The children of Nepal

• 5000 children are living and working on the streets, an estimated 1000 of these are in Kathmandu, some are as young as 4 years.
• At least 40,000 children are bonded labourers.
• An estimated 60,000 children die every year from malnutrition and treatable diseases before the age of 5.
• 2.6 Million children are engaged in different types of child labour.
• There is no government provision for the care of orphaned/abandoned children and no free medical treatment provided.
• Every year approximately 27,000 children die from dysentry.
• Nepal has the number one child disappearance rate in the world.
  

There are over 60 million abandoned children and infants in the world today and Nepal is home to a large number of them. Over the years, the country has witnessed a big increase in the number of children who have been found abandoned. While poverty and poor financial conditions have led many parents to abandon their children, political conflicts have deprived many children of the custody of their parents.

These children have little choice but to become involved in dangerous situations, some fall victim to child traffickers who take them out of Nepal to work in the sex industry, others are left to sleep on the streets and become involved with drugs, pick-pocketing and other activities that may lead to a lifetime of difficulties. Some children find work at the different hotels and restaurants, but often they are paid small wages for their labour and are not granted the opportunity to receive an education.

The Talbot Centre is maintained entirely by voluntary contributions. Details of how to sponsor a child are now online. Please take a look at our 'Sponsor' page for details!