Child Sponsorship Background from Jorpati, Nepal

SOS Children's Village Jorpati

SOS Children's Village Jorpati was set up as a home for physically and mentally challenged children and officially opened in January 1982. Jorpati is located on the outskirts of the capital, Kathmandu, not far from SOS Children's Village Sanothimi.

This project is run in co-operation with the Nepal Disabled and Blind Association. Near the SOS Children's Village, there is an organization called Kaghenda New Life Centre. They are specialists at treating physically and mentally challenged people.

The children from the SOS Children's Village are treated and taught there as well. SOS Children's Village Jorpati consists of five family houses and another building with an office, the village director's apartment and a therapy room with a small pool for physical therapy.

The houses were specially designed to meet the requirements of physically challenged children. They were built next to each other around a central courtyard. Special classes for mentally challenged children are held at the SOS Children's Village.

Other SOS Projects in Jorpati

Some of the older boys from the SOS Children's Village live at the SOS Youth Home which is situated in Kathmandu's inner city and consists of a rented house with four flats 12 boys. In 2005, a youth home for girls was set up in the inner city as well.

Background to Jorpati

Jorpati is a village in Kathmandu District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 10,796.