Children in Children Home, A Case Study of Child Welfare and Education's Home Lakeside, Pokhara, Kaski

Abstract

1. Title: A study of Children in Children's Home A case study of Child Welfare and Education's Home 2. Objectives: To identify how the children came to this home. To identify children's situation in CWE's Home. To explore socialization process in CWE's Home. 3.Methodology:a) Observation : The researcher applied the method of observation by visiting the field to get necessary information like the children's behaviour, living condition, health, clothes, physique and physical materials available there.] b)Questionnaire Schedule : The researcher prepared set of questions through which the caste, age, sex of the children as well as the causes of being orphan and coming in the children's home were explored. c) Interview Schedule : The researcher consulted teachers teaching the childrenat the children's home, school teachers, experts of this field to get the authentic situation of the Children's Home as well as about different aspects of the children living in the children's Home. d)Conclusion :With 37 children of CWE's Home situated in Lakeside, Pokhara, data was collected. On the basis of caste and ethnicity the number of children of ethnic group has been found to be 56.8% which is the highest one. The least 8.1%has been found to be of the children coming from Chhetri community and same percent from Dalit community. In the same time, the religion is data shows that children of Hindu religion come to be 59.5% which is the highest one and the children of Buddhist religion have been found to be 40.5% of the total number of the children.It is gratifying to mention that most orphanage are supposed to be giving good care to children and some may not be running properly but as far as themanagement of CWE's Home is concerned, it is providing admirable facilities to the children living in the orphanage. They were found to have been given good food Kitchen and dormitory were kept neat and clean. They were being given nutritious food and there was provision for indoor games, audio-visualarrangement for developing their knowledge and entertainment. They were found to have been sent to schools of high reputation in Pokhara. The childrenwere found to regard the higher officials and other staff of the organization astheir loving guardians. Another remarkable fact found in this orphanage is that though there are both girls and boys, they have affinity in them and they regard them like the members of the same family brothers and sisters. Most ofthe children are found to have been regarding CWE's Home as their own home where they can talk about their feelings with the same ease as is found by the children living in a caring family.