Rehabilitation Centre for Children & Orphans (RCCO) was founded in 2006 to act as a non-profit, child development organization. It was set up to foster full and harmonious development of children’s personality. The founder of RCCO has two years experience dealing with the children whose family are the victims of violence, trotures, murders, abduction and looting of the so-called ‘People’s War’. RCCO, since its inception, has been helping these children in terms of their welfare and rehabilitation into the society.

The organization is registered in District Administration Office, Kathmandu and is affiliated with Social Welfare Council, Nepal. RCCO has been accommodating and providing relief to children of several districts from the East to Far West regions of Nepal. The principal aim of the organization has been to provide food, security and education to the conflict-hit children to grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding. Nearly 250 children are availed the services of RCCO-Astha Children Care Home currently in Kathmandu and Itahara, Morang. RCCO has promoted a Astha Children Care Home from which it has been providing all the services to the children.

Our vision

The vision of the Astha Children Care Home is to become “A national leader in providing high quality service to the conflict-hit, orphaned, abandoned, displaced, and at-risk children to meet their rights on quality food, education, shelter and security”.

Our aims

Our aim is to promote welfare of conflict-hit, orphaned, abandoned, displaced, and at-risk children through social protection and respect to child rights and dignity. We would like to report and monitor the activities in line with ‘UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)’.
RCCO prioritize these children to educate well so that they can return to home and make a real impact in their lives and contribute to their society.

Our Values

We value to quality in our services, exercise leadership and bring real impact to the lives of the children and respect their dignity.

Quality Service: We are committed to the highest standards of quality in our programs and operations. We promote courtesy and dedication in our environment and utilize our quality improvement system to meet changing needs of the children.

Real Impact: We seek the real impact in the lives of our children. Our success depends upon the children’s good career in the future.

Serving Leadership: We put service first as priority during exercising leadership. We are committed to teamwork, patience and friendliness that encourage inclusion from the stakeholders and the people we serve.

Respect for Dignity: We maintain respect for the worth and dignity of all persons with whom we work and serve.

Objectives

The major objectives of RCCO-ASTHA are the following:

• To provide services to the children, including the victims of so-called ‘Conflict or War’ by providing
   them the parental care and reformative action,
• To impart quality education to the children who are deprived of access to the education,
• To provide fearless environment and security to the orphan children, and help the mentally tormented
    children recover from the sufferings,
• To help orphans co-mingle and participate with others into the society so that they can develop
    themselves as responsible and respectable citizens of the country,
• To rehabilitate children in their own villages as a competent individuals.

Financial Resources

The financial resources to operate and sustain the centre are as follows:
• Funds donated by the founder members
• Membership and Renewal fee
• Sponsorship
• Donation, both monetary and in-kinds provided by different donors
• Program funds provided by any governmental or non-governmental, domestic and/or international
   organizations, an individual or association