About Us
A Child's Life
Foundation is the USA's support
organization for Social
Development Campaign Nepal
(SDC-Nepal) -- both our
organizations have 501(c)(3)
non-profit status.
We cooperate to change the lives
of Nepalese people.
SDC was established in 1999 and
has been involved with
empowering underprivileged
children for the last few years.
It is registered with the
Government of Nepal and
affiliated with the Social
Welfare Council under the
Ministry of Women, Children and
Social Welfare, Government of
Nepal.
Our
Team
Please
read more about our team
members:
Jeevan
Bista
Jeevan Bista was born at the far
eastern region of Nepal, called
Chumlung village of Khotang
district in 1972. This is a
hilly district with high
mountains and rocky hills. Life
is hard as there is no road
access, electricity and other
basic necessities. It is about
1000 kilometers from Kathmandu
valley. One has to travel 20
hours by car and 2 days'
trekking to reach this village.
His parents are
farmers. He studied in a nearby
primary school and secondary
school up to grade 10. It was a
3-hour walk to Chisapani
Secondary School. He graduated
in 1989.
Later, when he
came to Kathmandu, the peaceful
revolution for democracy and
against direct rule of King
Birendra was in progress. He
enrolled in Law School in
Kathmandu. In 1992 he joined a
weekly newspaper namely Sarita
Saptahik. He was a reporter, and
then became a co-editor. He was
involved in reporting, desk top
designing, marketing,
distributing, and press
handling. He wrote the column in
Shree Sagarmatha Daily, The
Samacharpatra Daily, Matribhumi
Weekly and other newspapers as a
means for supporting himself
during school. In 1996 he
graduated with his degree in Law
from Tribhuwan University. He
completed postgraduate work in
Sociology and Anthropology in
1998 from the same university.
He became a
member of the editorial team of
a college journal, "Discourse."
While he was a student, he and
some classmates started an NGO,
called "Social Development
Campaign Nepal." They published
a monthly magazine, called "Asia
magazine." A year after everyone
graduated the magazine folded.
He started his own publishing
house, called "Deekshya
publications. He published and
edited magazines like "Asia
Times," "Construction and
Engineering," and “The
Inspirer," which is an English
magazine focused on children,
students and education.
He married
Asmita and has two children. In
2000 he established another
company "Media Home Pvt. Ltd."
and started a television program
production which buys time from
Nepal Television to broadcast
his weekly program on economy,
called “The Business Hour,” and
has nationwide viewing.
In 2004 he
became re-involved with Nepal’s
social issues and started
producing and broadcasting a
social program called
"Parivartan" (The Change). This
is a weekly program focusing on
working children, gender, HIV,
public health issues and
poverty. These two TV programs
are still being aired.
He visited nine
countries within his 10-year
media career and produced more
than 500 episodes of TV
programs, 150 documentaries on
social issues, including working
children, and directed a few
TVCs.
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Krishna
Prasad Lohani
Krishna Prasad Lohani was born
April 24, 1972, in Nuwakot, a
rural area of Nepal.
Krishna went to school far from
his village for 10 years. He had
to cross rivers and walk over an
hour and a half daily to get
there. As a result Krishna and
his brother were the only two
siblings to complete their
schooling from the village.
He then went to Kathmandu in
1989 and attended Law school at
Tribhuvan University.
He was admitted to this school,
and due to lack of funds, worked
during class time for the first
year. After that, he went to
night school at the same
university, so he could work
during the day at a carpet
factory to support himself. This
job was quite difficult as it
required great strength to carry
huge rolled carpets up and down
different floors in the factory.
One day while
walking in Thamel, Krishna met
with a friend about different
job and was introduced to the
man who got him into the
trekking industry. He worked
menially for awhile and then
kept getting promoted.
Working this job made school
easier as the job was less
physically taxing. By the second
year he became an associate
lawyer and the company he was
working for used him in this
capacity. He continued his
studies for three more years and
became a fully accredited
lawyer. He completed his law
degree in 1996 from Tribhuvan
University.
At
this time he was making a little
more money and was able to buy
some of the street children some
food and necessities. Krishna's
motivation was the reality that
he could've been one of them
without the help of his parents
who encouraged him to go to
school.
In
1988 Krishna and his brother
opened a school in their village
to make it easier for children
to get to school and complete
schooling to the age of nine,
when they would be able to walk
further to the next school.
As he made more money he
continued helping more children
in the street and was involved
with supporting children in
different areas of Nepal.
In 1999, Krishna married Kamala
Adhikari, who is a nurse and
helps the children involved in
Krishna's projects.
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Shoshana
Avree, BA, LMT.
Shoshana
was born in 1951 in Miami,
Florida, USA.
She now lives in Hollywood, Florida,
USA.
Shoshana
has been a massage therapist for
over 25 years, as well as a
Shamanic practitioner. She
currently teaches workshops on
Shamanic healing and has a
private practice.
She is concerned about the
future of the world and keeping
alive hope for peace and shared
resources around the world.
She believes helping children
get an education gives them
better opportunities for their
future in enabling them to have
enlightened choices.
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Kamala
Adhikari
Kamala was born in a remote
village in the Gorkha district
of Nepal in 1974.
She was encouraged to go to
school by her parents, which at
that time was considered modern.
Most girls would end up married
at an early age at that time.
Kamala was
impressed at an early age by the
healing work of her father and
grandmother, who worked with
children using traditional
ayurvedic medicines that they
collected from the jungles.
Her father
started a cardamom farm which
supported Kamala and her five
siblings through school and
college.
Kamala finished
10 years of school, and
afterwards was accepted to the
Bir Hospital Nursing College for
a three-year nursing course.
After graduation she worked at a
private hospital called the
Kathmandu Model Hospital for a
year to gain more practical
knowledge. She also went back to
her remote village to work as an
instructor at a community level
health manpower development
school. Kamala worked there for
a year.
Kamala joined a government job
as staff nurse in a remote
village of Tanahyn district at
the Bandipur Hospital. During
this time she also went back to
her home village during holidays
to help bring health awareness
to pregnant women. A great
challenge in these villages was
the lack of equipment,
medicine and hospital setting.
The local people used to get
care at home with the use of
locally available materials.
Many complications existed
during pregnancy, and infant
mortality rates were high.
She later worked in another
remote village of Gorkha at
Primary Health Care Center which
was near her parents village.
She worked there for the first
year of her married life.
The focus at the time was on
acquiring equipment, medicine
and infrastructure of the health
care center in coordination with
the Ministry of Health district
public office and the local
people. Once this was
accomplished, they could get
health care workers to come for
a few months at a time per year,
whereas before, no one came.
In 2002 she was transferred to
Kanti Children's Hospital and
started to live with her
husband's family (Krishna
Lohani). She became an expert on
child care.
Kamala then
completed her Bachelor of
Nursing degree(Hospital
Nursing).
She continues to work at Kanti
Children's Hospital and
different orphanages in the
Kathmandu Valley. She also
teaches at the Nursing Hospital,
as well as being an
administrator at the new
Cooperative Hospital in
Kathmandu.
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Binod
Khanal
Binod Khanal was born in 1973 at
Satiswara 1, Tanahu district and
educated in nearby school up to
grade 10. After the completion
of his school education, he came
to Kathmandu in 1990 for his
further education and entered
law school.
He completed graduation in law
in 1995, graduated in education
in the year 1997, and earned a
postgraduate degree in sociology
and anthropology in 1998
from the Tribhuwan University.
During his higher education he
worked for the financial
resources needed to continue the
education. He worked in several
private companies.
He practiced his legal
profession as the advocate of
Supreme Court of Nepal and
associated with the SDC Nepal
since its establishment. He
interacted with children during
his work as media producer. He
has been associated with the
audiovisual production work for
television and documentary
production in more than 600
episodes.
He married Shanti and has one
son and one daughter. Shanti
teaches the children in a school
nearby their home at Kalanki
Kathmandu.
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Asmita
Asmita (Chitra Kumari Thapa) was
born in 1974 at Simpani village,
Khotang District. She completed
her school education at 1994 and
came to Kathmandu for her higher
education. In the year 1995 she
joined Tribhuwan University,
Padma Kanya College at Bag
Bazar, Kathmandu and completed
higher education in the year
1998. She married in 1997 and
has one son and one daughter.
She worked hard to arrange her
financial resources during her
education working in different
educational institute.
Now she has own poultry farm and
is self-sustained. Her poultry
business has made her a good
women entrepreneur in Nepal. She
has been associated in this
organization since 2000.
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Subash
Dhakal
Subash Dhakal was born in 1970
at Shreenath Kot village of
Gorkha district.
This district is a hilly
district, and he had to walk
about one hour to go to school
He completed grade 10 on 1990,
and came to Kathmandu to pursue
education and future.
In 1991 he joined Tribhuwan
University for higher education.
He completed graduation in 1997
in economics and earned a
postgraduated degree in 1998. He
married to Parbati in 1998 and
has one son and one daughter.
He did different
work to complete his education
and established himself as a
good entrepreneur. Now he is
engaged in a cooperative bank.
His involvement in the
cooperative is to widen lending
to the poorer strata of the
society as much as possible.
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