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The Accent association started an exchange program within the Mesorathi project to further the population’s autonomy in Nepal and to encourage strong friendship links between young people in Evry and Maisons-Alfort in France and Nepalese children.

Nepalese children suffer huge problems:

- Because of their parents’ lack of resources, about 5,000 children sleep in the streets of Kathmandu. They are left to themselves, and they steal and beg to survive. Very young children do not attend school and work to support their families.
- Over 206 children die per day.
- Almost all social classes suffer from malnutrition and illiteracy.

The aims of the project are :

- To further links between the people of Evry and Maisons-Alfort, and the children of Nawa Asha Griha home and school, and the people of the Adarsha village of in the mountainous region of Helambu.
This will encourage French and Nepalese youth to embrace other cultures and to communicate in English through the Internet.
- To encourage education and information initiatives on hygiene, health, and
schooling
- To rebuild a school in the Adarsha village.

In France, we help young people from difficult neighbourhoods get actively involved in all stages of an international humanitarian project, from conception to long-term organisation.

The work:

- Undertakes initiatives to raise public awareness of the life conditions of children in Nepal (video reports, exhibitions)
- Introduction to Nepalese culture (concerts, presentations in schools)
- Internet training courses (Internet research, e-mail and chat): introduction to Nepalese culture and communication with Nepalese children
- Public promotion of the project: young people are encouraged to present the project through different initiatives
- Collection of clothes, shoes, medicines and school stationery

The Association wants to give Nepalese people the means to gain autonomous access to schooling and health care.

At NAG home and NINA school (Kathmandu)

- Donation of hardware and communication tools (computers, web cam)
- Art workshops (taking part in the drawing and painting contest “Draw me Peace” launched by the UNESCO), exchange of painted cloth, e-mails and letters between French and Nepalese children
- First aid courses for teachers and some children classes (with an entertaining approach)
- Sporting activities (such as a football tournament followed by a prize-giving ceremony and a fair)
- Donation of clothes and stationery

In the village of Adarsha (Helambu)

- Introduction to hygiene for the UCSS association members who train Adarsha people, introduction to first aid, health care
- Stationery, clothes and medicines donation (antiseptic supplies, plasters, paracetamol, collyre drops for eyes and ears…)
- Support for the building of a solid and lasting school in Adarsha
- Financial support for the rebuilding of the school in Adarsha