It has been nearly a year and a half but the nation is still not free from the danger of the virus as a majority of the population is yet to be vaccinated. Children are confined indoors as educational institutions have not been allowed to conduct physical classes yet. Children living with their parents have not had to face such difficult times as they are being provided for by their parents but what about those unfortunate orphans who live in shelter homes.

“The situation during the second phase of the prohibitory order was a fragile one for us,” says Bidya Upadhyay Neupane, Chairperson of Nepal Children’s Organisation (Bal Mandir). The establishment is a non-governmental organisation that provides shelter to orphans and even kids who have been found by the police and whose parents cannot be located.