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Role of International Organizations to Solve Social Problems

Objective : To find out the contribution of Red-Cross Society, SOS Children Village, SCOUT and other

organizations and provide possible help in their mission.

Introduction:

Various international organizations have been assisting Nepal to solve its social problem. Some of them are given below:

Organizations Functions

United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA)

It has been encouraging Nepalese women to participate in various fields of development and to move forward.
Norwegian Agency for International Development (NAID) It has been providing free legal service to Nepalese women.
International Labour Organization (ILO) It has been actively involved to abolish all kinds of child labour in Nepal.
World Food Programme (WFP) It has been providing food to Bhutanese refugees living in Jhapa.
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) It has been extending help and training to the deaf people of Nepal.
Directorate General for International Services (Netherland) (DGIS) It has been helping Kamaiyas, training to homeless women and proper disposal of waste in Kathmandu.

International Nepal Fellowship (INF)

It has been helping to rehabilitate drug addicts and has established a leprosy hospital in Pokhara.
Jaycees, Rotary, Leo and Lions clubs These clubs have been helping physically challenged and under-privileged people, free medical checkups, free distribution of medicine and victims of natural disasters.

Red-Cross Society, SOS Children Village and Scout have great contributions in solving our social problems.

Scout: (Service, Courteous, Obedient, Unity and Trust)

Scout is an international social service organization. It was founded by Baden Powell in 1907 A.D. with 20 members. Now there are over 20 million members in 150 countries of the world. Baden Powell was a British army officer. In the war of Mafeking, South Africa, he protected the city from his ill health and was without food supply for a week. Later on, he focused his attention on the British children who were ill and jobless and used to take alcohol and commit crimes. They had no sense of belongings to a nation. So, he arranged a camp in London for 20 boys and founded the scout in the year 1907 A.D. He published a book called “Scouting for Boys”. Subsequently, scout groups were formed with girls guides in other countries too. The slogan of scout is “We all are brothers and sisters. The world is our global home. Let’s get ready to help our global home.”

The scout members undergo an oath-taking ceremony where they promise to abide by the scout law and serve their duty towards the nation and god. They learn various skills, play games, explore new places, perform critical tasks in deserted places and involve in community service. It includes health and immunization programmes, planting trees, helping old and physically challenged people, creating awareness against drug abuse, involving in relief works to help the victims of floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Nepal Scout:

Nepal scout was founded in the year 2009 B.S. Its headquarter is at Lainchaur in Kathmandu. In Nepal, the Girl Scouts wear frocks or green sarees and the boys wear dark brown pants and light brown shirts. Both of them tie scarves of different colours according to their company. The Nepalese parliament passed the scout law to regulate scout activities in 2050 B.S. Nepal scout members are seen involved in the following activities:

  1. First-Aid facility to the injured or wounded people
  2. Controlling crowds
  3. Distributing drinking water during religious and social gatherings
  4. Provide help during natural calamities.
  5. Helping to spread awareness on various social issues.
  6. Tree plantation etc.

Red-Cross Society:

Red Cross Society is an international social service organization. It was founded by Jean Henry Dunant in Geneva, Switzerland in the year 1863 A.D. when Henry Dunant was on a vacation in Italy, the war was going on in the place called Solferino. He reached the battlefield and found about 40 thousand people killed or injured. No one was there to help the war victims. There was no doctor, nurse and people to carry them away. He urged the women to take care and supply the bandage, children, to carry water and others to help the injured. Collective effort improved the situation within 5 weeks. After that, he wrote a book called “A Memory of Solferino” in which he appealed to a group of volunteers to help the victims of war and natural disasters. The delegates of 16 countries got together and established Red Cross Society in the year 1863 A.D. its flag has a red cross in the white background whereas the flag of Switzerland has a white cross in red background. The international conference of 12 countries in 1864 decided that Red Cross volunteers and injured soldiers would not be attacked. Now, this applies to war prisoners and other civilians too. Red-Cross Society has spread to more than 175 countries in the world. Some Muslim countries use a red crescent on a white flag and call themselves as Red Crescent Society.

The basic principles of Red-Cross Society are humanity, freedom, unity, neutrality, voluntary services and non-alignment. Some of the activities of Red-Cross are:

  1. Provide food, clothes and other basic things to the victims of natural disasters.
  2. Keep the record of prisoners and missing people.
  3. Run blood transfusion programmes and set blood banks
  4. Play the role of guardian of people for human rights.

Nepal Red-Cross Society was established in 1963 A.D. (2020 B.S.) Its headquarter is in Kalimati, Kathmandu. Since its establishment, it has been actively involved in the following activities:

  1. Providing service to needy people.
  2. Helping people during natural disasters.
  3. Establishing blood banks
  4. Providing ambulance service
  5. Helping the Bhutanese Refugees
  6. Fighting for human rights during different revolutions.

Save Our Souls (SOS Children Village):

SOS is an international social service organization. It was founded by Dr Herman Gmeiner in Vienna, Austria in the year 1949 A.D. After World War II, thousands of children became orphans. This organization was established to look after them and rebuild their lives. Now, it has been working in over 133 countries in the world providing service to all kinds of orphans, street and needy children.

SOS Children Village in Nepal was established in the year 2028 B.S. at Sanothimi, Bhaktapur. SOS provides food, shelter and education to the orphans, needy and homeless children in homely environments. There are a number of children in each house with an elderly lady as a mother. The elder children look after the young ones like brothers and sisters. There are SOSChildren Villages in Sanothimi, Koteshwor, Itahari, Banepa, Surkhet, Chitwan, Pokhara, Jorpati etc.