OKHARPAUWA BASELINE SURVEY

VIN has been working for the wellbeing for community since 2005/2006. It has expanded its program in Okhaldhunga district and now it's adding Okharpauwa VDC on their working site. It is comparatively a less developed district next to Kathmandu District. Illiteracy, unemployment, Physical difficulties, economic insufficiency, lack of health facility, etc are the main challenges for the proper development of Okharpauwa. At its first step, VIN is going to conduct baseline survey in wards of Okharpauwa to identify the major challenges facing by local people. VIN is going to conduct baseline survey on the following issues/problems of the peoples of VDC. 'e Situation of women's education, health, income generation activities in local level. 'e Situation of community health and Environment at VDCs. 'e Condition of Children Development at VDC level. In the area of Children's Clubs, Sponsorship / scholarship education, Early Childhood Development (ECD) classes, Orphanages Support program etc.) 'e Situation of Youth development such as condition of Youth Club, Career Development and Entrepreneurship skill, Volunteer Program, English Language Development Program etc. 'e Condition of educational improvement such as ECD Teacher Development, Primary Teacher Development; Basic Infrastructure Development etc. Objectives: 'e To identify the women's situation in the field of women's health, income generation activities/ condition and life skill, education of all ages and all stages, awareness of day to day activities and participation in decision making activities in household and community level. 'e To study Children Development Condition at VDC and school level, basically, in the field of Children's education, Children's Clubs, Sponsorship / scholarship education, Early Childhood Development (ECD) classes, etc.) 'e To study the condition of Youth development in VDCs level such as involvement of youth's in community development, Youth Club and its activities, Career Development and Entrepreneurship skill, Volunteer Programs, English Language Development Program etc. 'e To study the educational activities in the field of ECD Teacher Development, Primary Teacher Development and Basic Infrastructure Development etc. 'e To study the situation of health and sanitation of VDCs people and locally available health and sanitation facilities. 'e To make comparative study on the impact climate change.