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Life on the streets as a child

Some walk barefoot, others in rough shoes. All wear weather-beaten, stained, torn, and unwashed clothing. During tourist season the

Street children in Kathmandu feeding their dog

weather is warm and the children are more spread out.

Many come into Thamel, the main tourist area in Kathmandu, at night. They are usual working in groups outside of the supermarkets begging for money or food.

It’s a mistake to give the street children money, or even food. They will use the money to buy drugs and simply sell the food for money to buy more solvents

As Kathmandu closes for the night the street children return to the outskirts and to closed off areas to sleep in groups.

Winter keeps many street children away

Come to Nepal during the colder winter months and you will see fewer children. And those that you do see are the regular hardened boys. The cold forces them to stay in larger groups. Walk down by the Moroccan embassy just outside of Thamel and you will encounter the boys wrapped up in heavy jackets every morning.

Plastic bags of solvents never far from their faces.

Nepalese mentality to street children

The problem of child abuse in Nepal is made worse by a gap in Nepalese legislation which does not recognize sexual abuse of boys. The problem, legally, simply does not exist. The children have slipped through a fractured safety net in Nepalese society that’s a living tragedy and a dramatic future problem that many choose to ignore.

I asked several local Nepalese about the street children in general.

Common answers ranged from:

“They are rich. They make more money than the rest of us …” (from begging)

Life on the streets of Kathmandu ages a child over a very short period

“I’ve seen them dressed up in the best gear. This is all fake. They work for gang leaders and get paid well for their thievery …”

“They cause nothing but trouble. The police need to take them out of the city so we can clean up our streets …”

I heard nothing sympathetic to their plight.

That said, there are several organizations trying to help the children. Unfortunately, I have also heard several disturbing facts about the legitimacy of some organisations as well.

Nepal continues to fail in forming itself as a legitimate country. Meanwhile many dark hearted people take advantage of the vulnerable

My return to the streets of Kathmandu years later

Back in 2008 I remembered seeing the street children. Their torn little faces warped with mankind’s solvents, neglect, ignorance and abuse.

There were certain faces I remembered better than others. The boy with the harsh angled face and wild curly hair. And, the boy with the long face with dark sad eyes. In 2008 there was a glimpse of hope in his eyes. He still moved them with a child like mischief.

Today I saw the long faced boy again. I recognised him instantly. Only now his eyes no longer move with child like mischief. They are slow and dull. His face bruised and scratched. He turns his whole head to look at something. He no longer talks in long sentences. His words are harsh and blunt.

“Give me money …”

No more.

Hierarchy on the streets

I went down to the streets early one morning. A large plastic container of Dal Bhat in hand along with some breads and small cakes. Wrapped up in heavy down trekking jackets the long faced boy stared angrily at me while clutching at a bag of solvent.

Street Children feeding a dog in Kathmandu

Huffing at the bag his face was full of concentration. He then saw the container of food and pounced on it.

The others stirred.

There was a hierarchy at work here. The long faced boy had become a group leader it seemed. The others waited for his command. Each child with their own small bag of glue.

I handed him a pile of A4 paper as plates. He handed them out to the others. Then digging his hands into the rice he scooped up as much as he could before he poured the dal sloppily over a makeshift plate.

The groups two dogs lapped up the spilled soup from the pavement as the other boys dug into the container. Each knowing their pecking order and the appropriate portion they could take.

That is until some of the younger one’s argued over the remains. It was now the long faced boy snapped an order at them. And with that the fight ended.

He looked at me and the remaining bag of chocolate cakes I had. He pulled at the bag. I held it back and looked around to see if everyone had eaten. He muttered something to me and then laughed with the others.

Reporting to a heinous looking man

An argument broke out between the younger ones again. Only this time one of them got up and stormed down the road.

It was here I felt an evil bile rise up in my stomach. Up ahead crouched on the pavement steps was a disheveled man in his twenties. Unwashed and with a beaten face he had the aura of a drunkard.

The world people choose to walk by: The Street Children in Kathmandu, Nepal

The boy spoke to him and the man looked down at him. At this time the boys near me had already pulled apart my bag of cakes and were examining them. I must have missed something. For when I looked back down the street the older man had opened his shirt and pulled the young boys hand onto his chest and then further down.

The boy pulled back and the man laughed. Then the boy followed suit.

I felt ill.

A surreal brief glimpse of boy’s at home

The group of boys in front of me were not so happy with the cakes. Sweet cakes and chocolate meant nothing to them it seemed. I asked why?

“Tourist food,” spat the long faced boy. “You bring more rice.”

With that he began angrily huffing on his fix again. The other boys broke out into a chatter. Then out of nowhere the long faced boy began feeding his street dogs the cakes.

An act that could only make me think of any other boy anywhere in the world looking after his pet. Sharing what to many others would be a treat, or even sustenance, with their best friend. Or in this case, protector, source of warmth, and possibly the only innocent, non-abusive, companion they had left in the world.

Surely this boy should be holding a toy and not a bag of brain killing solvent?

Return of the heinous man

My time was up. I was out of food, and so had nothing left to offer them. Moreover the older man from further down the road had made his way up to us. I was correct. He stank of stale alcohol.

I could see the look of fear mixed with bravery in the long faced boy. The man pointed around the place. The long faced boy waved me off.

“Buy more food for them …” grunted the older man stretching out his hand looking for money.

I shook my head. Stepped back and turned away.

The man laughed.

Most of the boys picked up their things and began to move out for a day of scrounging.

Last chance for innocence

I turned back in time to see the older man stagger off. The long faced boy and a few others remained with the two dogs by their feet. Plastic bags acting like mini bellows clutched to their faces.

It was a heavy scene along the road as Kathmandu began to wake up all around them. People walked by without a turn of their heads, nor care in the world towards the lost innocence before them.

Here were young boys clutching bags of solvents on harsh streets. When surely they should have been holding soft toys in loving homes

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Glue, a Cheap Substitute for Intoxication

Those who might think these street kids are ignorant are wrong. They are actually inventors - innovators of a cheap substitute for intoxication, which is easily available in the market, sold in both drug stores and hardware stores. It is none other than a sticky adhesive gluten substance commonly known as dendrite solution.

If you happen to be in a car in Kathmandu waiting for a red light, don’t be amazed to witness the street children congregating around your car begging for money with a plastic bag in hand. These bags, usually filled with gluten, might look like a harmless, playful thing to us - but it is cheap and extremely harmful substitute for getting high and intoxicated.

Children remain easy prey for exploitation, violence

Street children are the most vulnerable lot. Sexual abuse is hidden but a widely prevalent suffering among them. No child is safe and away from this cauldron of suffering.  Approximately 99 per cent of them are physically and psychologically abused. Child sexual abuse may include fondling a child’s genitals, masturbation, oral-genital contact, digital penetration, and vaginal and anal intercourse.  The other ways a child can be abused with are direct physical contact, such as sex by exposures, voyeurism and child pornography, use of obscene language, also referred to as non-contact abuse, shows a research conducted jointly by CPSC NGO Nepal, CPCS INT Belgium and VOC Nepal.

Males are the predominant perpetrators of sexual abuse against street children. On average, there are three male abusers for every two female abusers. On an average, 40 per cent of sexually abusive episodes are perpetrated by street-living children and adults as well as 40 per cent by non-street living adults.  Non street-living adults include relatives, shop, hotel or restaurant owners and workers or any Nepali adult not living on the street. The street is clearly the chief location for all types of sexual abuses, accounting for one in three incidents occurring. – sccp

Nepal police 'torture kids for fun:' rights group

The New York-based Human Rights Watch said it had received more than 200 reports this year of the torture in police custody of street children or minors suspected of crimes.  "Sometimes, the torture is inflicted to extract confessions from the children," said Human Rights Watch researcher Bede Sheppard.  "At other times it appears to be carried out purely for the entertainment of the official," Sheppard said.  The youngest alleged victim of police torture was a 13-year-old, and methods of torture reported on the minors included kicking, punching, forcing metal nails under toenails and beatings with plastic pipes, the rights group said.

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A Video Playlist for Nepal

There are an increasing number of street children videos now available that constitute a supplementary source of information for researchers, especially for those who may not have experienced the reality of street children.

ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of children - NEPAL [PDF]

A study on child sex tourism (CST) in Nepal (Kathmandu and Pokhara) in 2003, showed that there were many incidences of foreign tourists/paedophiles exploiting children (particularly street children and children from slum areas), who were lured by the promise of money and gifts from tourists. Abuse took place in hotel rooms, restaurants, secluded places and while trekking, etc. The study did not find any organised form of sex tourism existing in Nepal at that time. The exact number of abuses was difficult to measure as most of the contacts were made at individual level and therefore difficult to trace. There were also numerous cases reported in the local newspapers of foreign tourists keeping young boys and girls in their rented homes for long periods of time where they were exploited sexually in exchange for shelter, food, clothing and money.

UNICEF – Nepal

www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nepal.html

[accessed 24 June 2011]

The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

U.S. Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 2005

www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/nepal.htm

[accessed 23 February 2011]

INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There is anecdotal evidence that unaccompanied children are fleeing areas of civil unrest and migrating to urban areas because of economic hardship and to avoid recruitment by Maoist insurgents.  There is concern among government officials and NGOs that these children are much more vulnerable to labor or sexual exploitation, or living on the streets.

Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006

www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61709.htm

[accessed 23 February 2011]

CHILDREN - Internal displacement due to the conflict, including of children, continued to be a problem, with estimates of the number displaced ranging widely. The International Labor Organization estimated that 10 to 15 thousand children were displaced during the year. As IDPs, children faced inadequate access to food, shelter, and health care, and had limited access to education.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005

www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/nepal2005.html

[accessed 23 February 2011]

[61] The Committee also notes with concern that little has been done to address the particular health vulnerabilities and needs of children at risk, including street children, child laborers, child sex workers and Dalit children.

[85] In view of the increasing number of children living and working on the street and the State party’s recognition that they are among the major victims of abuse, neglect and exploitation, the Committee regrets the paucity of information about specific programs and measures to address their situation.

[95] The Committee notes with grave concern that certain groups of children are at a particularly higher risk of being sold and trafficked, including girls, internally displaced children, street children, orphans, children from rural areas, refugee children and children belonging to more vulnerable castes.

Street children with mental illness left in the lurch

Arjun Poudel, Republica Social affairs, November 13, 2010

www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=25155

[accessed 13 November 2010]

Street children with overt mental disorders often go totally unattended in the country as orphanages in the country are reluctant to admit them.

Worse still, orphanages do not admit children with mental health problems. “They only admit healthy and small children,” Sub-inspector Shankar Shrestha, who is also a staffer at the center, said, adding, “They do not admit children above the age of twelve.” He said that the police have no choice but to leave such children back on the streets if their relatives do not come looking for them.

These Grim Images & Sounds

Arpan Shrestha, Republica, Kathmandu, March 24, 2009

archives.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=2757

[accessed 24 June 2011]

As the night deepens, the wind temperature drops significantly and the children abandon their ‘police-demonstrator’ game. They huddle together, every so often kicking each other in the butt and smiling. “We have to sleep outside tonight,” says one observing the thick vapor in their breath.   “Look, the vapor I exhale is the longest,” says another in a reaffirming stance as the children crisscross their vapor and stroll towards the temple opposite Basantapur Durbar. All four climb the stairs to the temple.   On reaching the top, one begins to sing as others collect scattered paper boards to sleep on. The hurt one then gets a little plastic out of his worn pants and begins to inhale from it. Two others stretch out and follow suit. One of them blurts out (to the singing boy), “Shut up, will you?”   Soon, the four snuggle up to each other and sleep, or perhaps surrender to the hallucinations from the glue they’ve been sniffing. Two stray dogs appear, sniff around and settle next to the children and together they all call it a day.

95 pc street children sniff glue

Kantipur.com, Kathmandu, Jan 2, 2009

solventabuse.blogspot.com/2009/01/95-of-kathmandu-street-children-sniff.html

[accessed 24 June 2011]

With the onset of winter, it is usual for people to buy warm clothes and heaters to warm up their rooms and snuggle up in the quilt till late morning.   However, looking at skimpily dressed street children, you may wonder how they survive the freezing cold of Kathmandu. But they have their own way of keeping warm: they sniff dendrite.

Bibek Moktan, 12, who hails from Hetauda, warms up his winter morning by blowing into and inhaling from a plastic bag containing dendrite.   "I sniff one tube (50 grams) of dendrite a day," said Moktan. "When I first tried sniffing, I felt a current flowing inside me, but slowly I got used to it."   Kale Pariyar, 15, from Kalimati, was also sniffing from a dirty plastic with glue inside it. "I sniff, because I want to enjoy as others do,"said Pariyar.    Bibek and Kale are not the only ones who sniff glue to keep warm and to be happy. There are hundreds of children on the streets of the capital addicted to glue despite various health hazards associated with it.

According to a research conducted by Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN), glue sniffing affects various organs including the brain, nervous system, eyes, blood, lungs and heart and even causes death.

Nepal police 'torture kids for fun:' rights group

Agence France-Presse AFP, KATHMANDU, Nov 18, 2008

www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1kZAEMKQnrw13dfl9Ec7dhsU-Xg

[accessed 24 June 2011]

The New York-based Human Rights Watch said it had received more than 200 reports this year of the torture in police custody of street children or minors suspected of crimes.  "Sometimes, the torture is inflicted to extract confessions from the children," said Human Rights Watch researcher Bede Sheppard.  "At other times it appears to be carried out purely for the entertainment of the official," Sheppard said.  The youngest alleged victim of police torture was a 13-year-old, and methods of torture reported on the minors included kicking, punching, forcing metal nails under toenails and beatings with plastic pipes, the rights group said.

Dream big, Mrs Ban tells street children

Nepal News, KATHMANDU, November 2, 2008

hamropalo.com/nepal_news/dream-bigmrs-ban-tells-street-children.html

[accessed 24 June 2011]

She asked officials at the drop-in centre about the children's education and observed the facilities available there. While some come for classes during the day and spend the rest of their time in the streets, others, who were sexually abused, live at the centre.

Paritra Tamrakar, programme officer at the centre, informed the visiting dignitary that sexual exploitation of street children was rampant in the capital. She said that over 80 percent of street boys have been sexually abused, and there was difficulty in taking action against the guilty due to lack of implementation of the law.

Children remain easy prey for exploitation, violence

The Rising Nepal, Kathmandu, Aug. 11, 2008

www.gorkhapatra.org.np/detail.php?article_id=4809&cat_id=4

[accessed 24 June 2011]

Street children are the most vulnerable lot. Sexual abuse is hidden but a widely prevalent suffering among them. No child is safe and away from this cauldron of suffering.  Approximately 99 per cent of them are physically and psychologically abused. Child sexual abuse may include fondling a child’s genitals, masturbation, oral-genital contact, digital penetration, and vaginal and anal intercourse.  The other ways a child can be abused with are direct physical contact, such as sex by exposures, voyeurism and child pornography, use of obscene language, also referred to as non-contact abuse, shows a research conducted jointly by CPSC NGO Nepal, CPCS INT Belgium and VOC Nepal.

Males are the predominant perpetrators of sexual abuse against street children. On average, there are three male abusers for every two female abusers. On an average, 40 per cent of sexually abusive episodes are perpetrated by street-living children and adults as well as 40 per cent by non-street living adults.  Non street-living adults include relatives, shop, hotel or restaurant owners and workers or any Nepali adult not living on the street. The street is clearly the chief location for all types of sexual abuses, accounting for one in three incidents occurring. - sccp

Nepalese football academy rescues street children

Mail & Guardian Online, May 31 2008

mg.co.za/article/2008-05-31-nepalese-football-academy-rescues-street-children

[accessed 24 June 2011]

Three years ago, Mahendra BK was a 12-year-old boy living on the street in Pokhara, a middle-sized Nepalese town with a population of about 200Â 000. His mother died when he was still an infant and his alcoholic father died of tuberculosis when Mahendra was only eight.  Mahendra lived in extreme poverty with his sister and grandmother for about a year. At the age of nine, he left them and ended up in Kathmandu, the capital, where he was living a high-risk life on the street, collecting garbage and selling it for petty cash to recycling factories.

"When I was living on the street, I was sleeping under empty rice sacks in many different places. The police used to come around and chase me away.

A Life Less Innocent: Street Children in Kathmandu, Nepal

By Dave from The Raising Buds Nepal >>Nepal Published at: 2012 may 26

Street Children in Kathmandu, Nepal – Drugs, sexual abuse, life (warning: mature content)

(Warning: This article about Street Children in Kathmandu contains images & text of an adult/mature nature – If you are easily offended with this reality, please move on)

A life less innocent: harsh life for a boy huffing shoe glue on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal

The Street Children in Kathmandu, Nepal

Look into a child’s eyes and you are sure to see a sweet innocence that makes us all smile and want to cherish. It’s a universal feeling we all share no matter our race, creed or religion. The man who argues this point is not of this world.
But what happens when you look into a child’s eyes to see pain, loss, suffering, hate and something dark? Something so woeful in their eyes that makes us look away out of fear along with a guilt for not questioning why they are like that.

Unwanted children stick together, no matter the cause

As an unwanted child myself I have no tolerance for any person that abuses children. I grew up looking out at a harsh world from an early age. I recognize that look  in others today. No matter the race, nor country the look is always the same.
I looked into similar eyes during a cold winters day in 2008. The eyes of a hardened child on the streets of Kathmandu Nepal. There was still a spark of life in them though.
Nearly four years later I met that same boy again. That spark of life was never rescued. What I saw now were dull eyes and a soul that’s been forgotten.

This is a part of Kathmandu. A popular tourist destination. And a stained city with a blatant secret.

An army of homeless street boys in Kathmandu

Street Children surviving in groups in Kathmandu : it is survival of the fittest

The population of Kathmandu is approximately 3.5 million (2008), of which there are reportedly over 1,000 homeless street children out of a national 3,000.
The vast majority of these children are illiterate boys aged between 10 and 18. Most are addicted to some form of barbiturate. The most common usage surrounds solvent abuse. Solvents are widely available, cheap and offer children a communal bond along with a brief respite from their pain.
Others intravenous drugs are also abused and the spread of HIV/AIDS is becoming rampant due to drug and sexual abuse on the streets.

Terrifying statistics about the sexual abuse of street boys in Kathmandu, Nepal

75% of street boys in Kathmandu are victims of sexual abuse at the hands of foreigners, locals and their peers. Here are some worrying and disturbing figures.
How children end up homeless on the streets of Kathmandu

• 41% of children leave home due to family violence
• 27% due to peer influence
• 19% due to economic factors
• 15% due to disintegration of the family
  
  

  Older boys and young men rule the younger ones; on the streets ...

Male Nepali strangers were the most highly represented group (36.7%) of people reported to have offered gifts in return for sexual acts, mainly during the early evening.
43% of children felt sex was an easy way to make money as opposed to 26% who did not know why they did it.
The average payment is 200 rupees (USD$2.6)
Reasons the children gave that would help them stop living on the streets

• 33.3% Provide protection
• 25% Go back home
• 16.7% Did not know

Data from a 2010 report by Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN)

Life on the streets as a child

Some walk barefoot, others in rough shoes. All wear weather-beaten, stained, torn, and unwashed clothing. During tourist season the

Street children in Kathmandu feeding their dog

weather is warm and the children are more spread out.
Many come into Thamel, the main tourist area in Kathmandu, at night. They are usual working in groups outside of the supermarkets begging for money or food.

It’s a mistake to give the street children money, or even food. They will use the money to buy drugs and simply sell the food for money to buy more solvents

As Kathmandu closes for the night the street children return to the outskirts and to closed off areas to sleep in groups.

Winter keeps many street children away

Come to Nepal during the colder winter months and you will see fewer children. And those that you do see are the regular hardened boys. The cold forces them to stay in larger groups. Walk down by the Moroccan embassy just outside of Thamel and you will encounter the boys wrapped up in heavy jackets every morning.
Plastic bags of solvents never far from their faces.

Nepalese mentality to street children

The problem of child abuse in Nepal is made worse by a gap in Nepalese legislation which does not recognize sexual abuse of boys. The problem, legally, simply does not exist. The children have slipped through a fractured safety net in Nepalese society that’s a living tragedy and a dramatic future problem that many choose to ignore.
I asked several local Nepalese about the street children in general.
Common answers ranged from:
“They are rich. They make more money than the rest of us …” (from begging)

Life on the streets of Kathmandu ages a child over a very short period

“I’ve seen them dressed up in the best gear. This is all fake. They work for gang leaders and get paid well for their thievery …”
“They cause nothing but trouble. The police need to take them out of the city so we can clean up our streets …”

I heard nothing sympathetic to their plight.

That said, there are several organizations trying to help the children. Unfortunately, I have also heard several disturbing facts about the legitimacy of some organisations as well.

Nepal continues to fail in forming itself as a legitimate country. Meanwhile many dark hearted people take advantage of the vulnerable

My return to the streets of Kathmandu years later

Back in 2008 I remembered seeing the street children. Their torn little faces warped with mankind’s solvents, neglect, ignorance and abuse.
There were certain faces I remembered better than others. The boy with the harsh angled face and wild curly hair. And, the boy with the long face with dark sad eyes. In 2008 there was a glimpse of hope in his eyes. He still moved them with a child like mischief.
Today I saw the long faced boy again. I recognised him instantly. Only now his eyes no longer move with child like mischief. They are slow and dull. His face bruised and scratched. He turns his whole head to look at something. He no longer talks in long sentences. His words are harsh and blunt.
“Give me money …”
No more.

Hierarchy on the streets

I went down to the streets early one morning. A large plastic container of Dal Bhat in hand along with some breads and small cakes. Wrapped up in heavy down trekking jackets the long faced boy stared angrily at me while clutching at a bag of solvent.

Street Children feeding a dog in Kathmandu

Huffing at the bag his face was full of concentration. He then saw the container of food and pounced on it.
The others stirred.
There was a hierarchy at work here. The long faced boy had become a group leader it seemed. The others waited for his command. Each child with their own small bag of glue.
I handed him a pile of A4 paper as plates. He handed them out to the others. Then digging his hands into the rice he scooped up as much as he could before he poured the dal sloppily over a makeshift plate.
The groups two dogs lapped up the spilled soup from the pavement as the other boys dug into the container. Each knowing their pecking order and the appropriate portion they could take.
That is until some of the younger one’s argued over the remains. It was now the long faced boy snapped an order at them. And with that the fight ended.
He looked at me and the remaining bag of chocolate cakes I had. He pulled at the bag. I held it back and looked around to see if everyone had eaten. He muttered something to me and then laughed with the others.

Reporting to a heinous looking man

An argument broke out between the younger ones again. Only this time one of them got up and stormed down the road.
It was here I felt an evil bile rise up in my stomach. Up ahead crouched on the pavement steps was a disheveled man in his twenties. Unwashed and with a beaten face he had the aura of a drunkard.

The world people choose to walk by: The Street Children in Kathmandu, Nepal

The boy spoke to him and the man looked down at him. At this time the boys near me had already pulled apart my bag of cakes and were examining them. I must have missed something. For when I looked back down the street the older man had opened his shirt and pulled the young boys hand onto his chest and then further down.
The boy pulled back and the man laughed. Then the boy followed suit.
I felt ill.

A surreal brief glimpse of boy’s at home

The group of boys in front of me were not so happy with the cakes. Sweet cakes and chocolate meant nothing to them it seemed. I asked why?
“Tourist food,” spat the long faced boy. “You bring more rice.”
With that he began angrily huffing on his fix again. The other boys broke out into a chatter. Then out of nowhere the long faced boy began feeding his street dogs the cakes.
An act that could only make me think of any other boy anywhere in the world looking after his pet. Sharing what to many others would be a treat, or even sustenance, with their best friend. Or in this case, protector, source of warmth, and possibly the only innocent, non-abusive, companion they had left in the world.

Surely this boy should be holding a toy and not a bag of brain killing solvent?

Return of the heinous man

My time was up. I was out of food, and so had nothing left to offer them. Moreover the older man from further down the road had made his way up to us. I was correct. He stank of stale alcohol.
I could see the look of fear mixed with bravery in the long faced boy. The man pointed around the place. The long faced boy waved me off.
“Buy more food for them …” grunted the older man stretching out his hand looking for money.
I shook my head. Stepped back and turned away.
The man laughed.
Most of the boys picked up their things and began to move out for a day of scrounging.

Last chance for innocence

I turned back in time to see the older man stagger off. The long faced boy and a few others remained with the two dogs by their feet. Plastic bags acting like mini bellows clutched to their faces.
It was a heavy scene along the road as Kathmandu began to wake up all around them. People walked by without a turn of their heads, nor care in the world towards the lost innocence before them.

aBOUT LOVE AND CHILD

We are standing at a crossroads. Our planet is undergoing a crisis of consciousness, and we are being asked to make a choice. The choice is very simple. “Are we a planet of fear, or love?”

We are coming face to face with ourselves, and each other. Our stressed earth is reflecting our collective pain. And yet, as we stand at this critical turning point, the Universe is giving us a gift that will heal our hearts, and remind us of the power of love.

The gift is in the children of Light who are arriving in greater and greater numbers with a universal mission. They come with a mandate to ‘enlighten’ us through their own higher perceptions of reality. Unbound by third dimensional thought they are opening new pathways in our consciousness.

Because they are gifted with a vision of global unity, they will not tolerate the division that has severely unbalanced the earth. Intuitively these highly conscious children understand the limitation of laws that undermine our unity and brotherhood.

We will be touched by the energy of love that comes from the children, for they represent the beauty of our true nature as spiritual beings. Their enlightened DNA carries the template for the new man and woman, and they will speak in ways that remind us of our deepest longing, to be One with each other.

In every corner of the earth, they are waiting for us to recognize them as the emissaries of Light they are. They are our bridge to a higher reality. They will fast-forward humanity if we let them teach us what we have forgotten. When we can look into the eyes of each child, and open our hearts to welcome them, our healing will begin.

This website will be devoted to the children, who, by their very presence, are raising the consciousness of our planet. Our high vibrational children have unique needs that will require us to look at child development and education from an enlightened perspective.

We will need to look deep within ourselves to learn and grow, so we can nurture their gifts of higher perception. The children have an innate knowledge that respects the Universality of All Life, and they willingly give of themselves, so we can return to love.

“Many have come to teach the holiness of God,
but still there is not peace in the world.
Many have come to teach the holiness of man,
and still there is not peace in the world.
When many come to teach the holiness of children,
then there will be peace in the world.”

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