This year, Friendship Society Nepal (FSN) is looking for 2 people to research, write, and produce a documentary film on the issue of Children in Rural Nepal. The main root cause behind the poor status of Nepalese Children is Poverty. Nepal also has lots of Social problems that promote the poor status of Children. As a developing country of South Asia, Nepal’s population growth rate is high. So, the population of children is obviously high.
The UNICEF reports says – more then 50,000 children die annually in Nepal with malnutrition as the underlying cause in more then 60 % of those deaths, half the children in Nepal are underweight, the literacy rate for 15-24 year olds is 81 for males and 60 for females, 31% of children aged 5-14 are involved in some sort of Child Labor