CWIN Organization

Child workers in Nepal concerned center (CWIN) is a pioneer child rights organization in Nepal. It was established in 1987 by a group of university students as a movement which brought a fresh approach to social work, defying the convention of charity and heralding a new concept of rights, empowerment and activism. It focuses its activities an the issues of child rights, girl rights, child labor, trafficking, bonded labor, streets children, child abuse and children in armed conflict.

CWIN works for the advocacy, protection
and promotion of the rights of the child   through lobbying, campaigning and social concientisation.It also directly works with children at risk for their rescue, support, socialization, education, empowerment and social reintegration.

CWIN is a voice for children. It believes that working for children is just not a charitable action but one which can bring about social change. In order to translate the CWIN conception of working “for children, with children” into action, priority is given to promoting and ensuring children’s right to participation.

CWIN’s mission is to work as an advocate, being an organization of resources, a community link and network, a help-line, and a support service to promote and to protect child rights in general and the rights of children at risks in particular. It raises public awareness through organizing seminars, workshops, exchanges and exhibitions and publishes the results of its research in periodic reports. It also publishes a monthly newsletter in Nepali, Bal sarokar, quarterly magazine, Voice of child workers, in English.

It campaigns nationally and internationally to make the rights enshrined in the United Nations convention on the rights of the child a reality for Nepal’s children