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WHO WE ARE |
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Kidasha is a UK-registered charity supporting children who are at greatest disadvantage or who are beyond the reach of existing services and support:
- Children and mothers living in isolated rural communities
- Children and mothers in urban slums
- Street and working children
- Child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation
Since 1997, Kidasha has helped more than 200,000 children, young people and mothers in Nepal.
Kidasha's mission is to enable socially and economically excluded children to fulfil their potential by improving their wellbeing, supporting their development and reducing the impact of discrimination and social injustice.
We achieve this through our staff based in the UK and Nepal and local partners, building quality projects which have a sustained impact for children and families at grassroots level.
Kidasha was formerly known as CWS (Child Welfare Scheme) and established in 1995 by Douglas Maclagan, to develop projects based on empowering communities and implementing projects on a local level.
Child Welfare Scheme registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales in 1997. As of May 2012, CWS operates under the name Kidasha. All references to Kidasha relate to our work since 1997.
MEET THE TEAM:
Board of Trustees:
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Jon Rosser - Chairman Jon has been a Trustee of Kidasha since 2010 and Chairman since 2011. He is Chair of a community housing association working in the east end of London and has previously lived in both India and Nepal. Jon is currently interim director at VSO UK. |
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Leila Billing Leila Billing joined the Kidasha board at the end of 2012. She is a child and youth rights specialist and has worked to promote the rights of marginalised children and young people in southern Africa and Asia. She currently works in the Child Rights Unit at World Vision UK. |
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Brendan Mannion Brendan is a co-founder of CWS and has been on the board ever since. He is currently Head of English and History at St. Anthony's Preparatory School, Hampstead London |
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Ajay Mehta Ajay is a Management Consultant and founder of Ki-Rin, a social enterprise providing strategic and business development services in the voluntary and public sectors. He has over 20 years of senior experience working with third sector organisations, pioneering initiatives to help transform disadvantaged communities in the UK and abroad. |
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Daniel James Paterson Daniel is the founder of ManufacturingChange.org, an innovative online volunteering organisation, as well as a Manager at SolarAid, a pioneering enterprise rapidly catalysing the African solar market. He is passionate about using ethical business principles to achieve social goals. |
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Julie Yogasundram Julie has over 30 years’ experience of working in the voluntary sector, more than 20 years of which was at director level. Much of her career has been in the social housing sector with an emphasis on developing new services and organisations designed to facilitate independence for people with support needs. In 2007, Julie joined VSO and spent 2 years working as an organisational development adviser with a Nepali human rights charity in Kathmandu, Nepal. |
Senior Management Team:
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Janice Miller - Chief Executive Officer Janice spent over 20 years working in a number of senior roles in large multinational organisations in the private sector. After a career break volunteering in South America, she changed direction and worked for some smaller UK charities and social enterprises as a consultant/interim manager, specialising in restructuring and turnaround. She joined the Kidasha (CWS) Board in 2010 and subsequently became CEO in April 2011. |
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Hridaya Devkota - Best Start Programme Manager
Hridaya is a development professional and has more than 20 years experience as a program manager with international NGOs in Nepal. He has interest in participatory project planning and implementation of development projects in communities in both urban and rural settings. With many years of experience working with a range of local NGO partners, Hridaya has developed expertise in local capacity building of grassroots organizations. |
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Jeremy Southon - New Start Programme Manager Jeremy has been working with street and working children in Nepal for more than 10 years. He began developing programmes for street-involved children in Kathmandu with VSO and has since worked with UNICEF and a number of national organisations on juvenile justice and child protection issues. He has authored research on street-involved children for Save the Children, UNESCO and other organisations. Jeremy has been with Kidasha since 2006. |
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Andrew Clarke - Technical Advisor Andrew is a paediatric nurse, Health Visitor and public health specialist. He has been working in international child health and development for 15 years in numerous countries, in clinical, management and advisory roles. He publishes and teaches about international health and children's rights and also has interests in child protection. Andrew has been working with Kidasha since 2006. |
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Hitman Gurung - Programme Support Manager
Hitman graduated from Manchester University in Social Science and during his career has worked for a variety of different social organisations. He has been with Kidasha for nearly ten years and is currently the Programme Support Manager. He is also the main point of contact with government line agencies and other external stakeholders in Nepal. |
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Basanta Parajuli - Financial Controller Basanta is a qualified Chartered Accountant. With over 18 years of work experience in account, finance and administration, he has successfully overseen the financial management of numerous bilateral and multilateral projects in the NGO sector. He is married with two children. |
London & Nepal Staff:
Kidasha has offices in London and Pokhara, Nepal. The small London team provides overall governance, management and fundraising support. Kidasha's programme teams are located in Pokhara and made up of locally recruited staff. They have in-depth, firsthand knowledge of the situation on the ground in Nepal. Further, some of our employees are former beneficiaries with direct experience of the issues we work in and the impact we have.Our location within the heart of the communities we work with in Nepal, allows us to conduct firsthand research to inform our work with partner organisations, to build quality projects which have a sustained impact. At a grassroots level we directly provide support to children and families. At a national level, we work to influence and improve government policy. Internationally, we are members of the Consortium for Street-Children dedicated to realising the rights of street children globally.
London office:
- Janice Miller - Chief Executive Officer
- Andrew Clarke - Technical Adviser
- Juspal Bansal - Senior Fundraiser
Pokhara office:
- Hridaya Devkota - Best Start Programme Manager
- Jeremy Southon - New Start Programme Manager
- Hitman Gurung - Programme Support Manager
- Basanta Raj Parajuli - Finance Controller
- Umesh Chaudhary - Best Start Programme Officer
- Sachin Shakya - New Start Programme Officer
- Bidit Shah - Office Manager
- Pradip B.K. - IT/Account Assistant
- Raju Pariyar - Driver/Office Assistant
- Shanti B.K. - Office Helper
OUR DONORS AND FUNDERS:
Our work would not be possible without generous support from Trusts, Institutions and philanthropists throughout the world. Their contributions are crucial to our interventions in Nepal and we are grateful for every donation made.
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