About SathSath
Organisational background and history SathSath “Together with Children” has been working with children and youth living and working on the street in Nepal since 1998. SathSath, the organisation dedicated to ensuring children and child rights since its inception, established itself as one of the leading child rights organisations in Nepal. Recognized for its expertise in child rights sectors for its effective team capacity in coordination, networking, working with line organisations and Nepalese government SathSath takes a rights-based approach, with the child and youth as the key actors in his/her development and working to expand his/her life choices. The programme provides opportunities for children and youth helping them to develop their capacities and capabilities, which help to improve their situation. We work with children and youth who have had negative experiences of society and have been socialised and grown up in street/social discrimination/abuse and exploitation; gender bias; the worst form of child labour; destitute situations; etc., which often means a negative perception of self and society. SathSath uses an alternative livelihood model for realising target beneficiaries’ social and economic rights. Economically means supporting them in their educational and vocational needs towards a sustainable livelihood. Socially this means addressing their need for social integration to access opportunities and resources. Today, SathSath is an organisation recognised as a national NGO working for disadvantaged and underprivileged children and youth (along with immediate families) across Nepal. SathSath has a proven record of working in 29 districts and training around 150 NGO staff of more than 70 organisations in Nepal. Established as an organisation working solely for children and child rights, it has expanded it working target group to youth and women and immediate families and communities of the target group. Besides, SathSath works on overall issues of working and most disadvantaged children and youth, addressing other issues which concern the livelihood and survival in the society. We have been advocating rights of children through different mediums like radio, street and theatre drama, publications and other means. Consistently we have aired more than 343 radio programmes dedicated to advocating for the rights of children. SathSath has been establishing itself as a resource organisation in developing and delivering different training toolkits. We have successfully developed and delivered a training toolkit for UNICEF-Nepal-supported organisations in the Kathmandu Valley on HIV Prevention Outreach Programming for Outreach Worker/Street and Peer Educators. Similarly, developed and delivered a Practice Business Toolkit (PB) on youth entrepreneurship for Street Kids International-Canada (now merged with Save the Children -Canada), which they will be applying through their partner organisation in 160 countries. Children and youth are given opportunities to develop individual styles and capacity by involvement in the programmes. Children receive psychosocial counselling and are helped to identify their future goals. Children are encouraged for social reintegration programmes to mainstream their capacity to earn their lives from business training and support programmes, life-skill trainings, vocational skills and apprenticeships, and need-based education to self-sustain individual lives. SathSath believes in networking and working together with the other youth-serving organisations. Works with: children and youth from the street; street-based, sexually exploited and abused, sexual exploitation of children online (SECO); children and youth in commercial sex, children in the worst form of child labour; marginalized children and youth Date/Place Registered: 2001/02/01, District Administrative Office Legal Status of the Organisation:- A) Registration of District Administration: 662/2057/058
- B) SWC affiliation number: 13406
- C) PAN / VAT number: 302289822