As CLARISSA launches its campaign ‘Shift the Focus: The Small Business of Child Labour’ we are asking why this matters…
Voice of Children
VOC is an NGO working and advocating for street and sexually abused children of Nepal. It aims to prevent further increase in the number of street children by working to empower and spread awareness among vulnerable families living in urban, low-rent and slum areas. In partnership with ChildHope, VOC is the CLARISSA host organisation in Nepal, where a team will be exploring the hidden social norms that allow the worst forms of child labour to persist and delivering participatory processes and innovations to generate options for children to avoid hazardous and exploitative labour.
Ensuring ethics in life story collection during COVID times
As the first step in CLARISSA’s systemic action research, we collected life stories from children during the pandemic. The life…
Bringing children into the life story collection process
At the beginning of March, the CLARISSA Nepal team worked with children to support the collection of their life stories….
Live Twitter chat: Building a picture of worst forms of child labour: Life stories from the ground
On Universal Children’s Day, Danny Burns, Director, CLARRISA and Pragya Lasmal, Senior Participatory Action Researcher, CLARISSA join @IDS_UK in a Twitter Live…
COVID-19 closed the Adult Entertainment Sector, and now it must open
The global pandemic has affected communities around the globe causing severe threat to human life and Nepal is no exception….
Collecting life stories on the worst forms of child labour in Nepal
“Cover your face with a mask, sanitise, use gloves, and maintain a physical distance” is a new standard for human…
A chance to build trust and rapport in the global pandemic
The last 15 years has seen a massive expansion into Adult Entertainment Sectors (AES) in Nepal – not for one…
COVID-19: Learning in a virtual world
Who would have thought that 2020 would be so confined to a virtual world? When COVID19 started spreading in Nepal,…
Why are we focusing on the Adult Entertainment Sector in Nepal?
In Nepal, we will particularly be focusing on the Worst Form of Child Labour (WFCL) in the Adult Entertainment Sector…