Kathmandu, February 28:

The District Child Welfare Board (DCWB), Kathmandu, has initiated process to rescue 37 children from Rasuwa Langtang Liring Orphans Society at Gatthaghar of Bhaktapur, which lacked basic facilities to run an orphanage.

Wangda Lopchan, the president of the society, and the board today reached an agreement to let the government rescue the children after the society failed to maintain required basic facilities and services to run the orphanage. Bal Uthan Club, a child club at Sano Thimi, had complained the board against the orphanage in January, saying that children were being kept there in congested rooms and the orphanage lacked basic facilities like toilets and kitchen.

“Conflict between the members of the society Wangda Lopchan and Lamu Tsering led the donors to terminate their support to the orphanage,” said secretary of the board Gyan Bahadur Lama, adding that the orphanage then failed to maintain the facilities.

The orphanage was registered with Kathmandu DAO in 2004-05 to run at Baneshwor-10, but

was shifted to Gathaghar without informing the authorities.

The board had also rescued 35 children on February 26 from the Apostolic Youth Bible School run by a Korean national Yi Sokin at Manamaiju. The school was accused of running it illegally, abusing the children and keeping them in dire straits.

In another case of abuse of children in orphanages, Nirmala Thapa had filed a complaint against Helpless Children Protection (HPC) on February 17 saying that the HPC sent her three kids to Spain without informing her. Likewise, 11 children were rescued from Disabled and Orphan Children Protection Centre on January 18.