Who we are ?

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Centre for Disabled Children Assistance (CDCA) is a non-government not for profit making entity working since 2006 AD in Nepal. The major purpose of CDCA is to support the children with disabilities (CwDs) to participate fully in the society and enjoy the equal rights and opportunities. CDCA adopts the integrated holistic approach to advocate the implementation of Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities. CDCA is focused on grass roots through making the easy accessibility of wheelchairs and disability aid to the most marginalized and poorer groups of the society. Along with accommodating, educating, and taking care of holistic development of the children living with disabilities, CDCA advocates for inclusive education, provision of realization of rights of people living with disability through awareness raising and community dialogue at national, provincial and local level. Since its inception, CDCA is providing a home, education and all the basic needs to children with disabilities. The children are from remotest geography and belong to the most marginalized and poorer community. CDCA Care Home is in Ward no. 11 Kapan at Budhanilkantha Municipality.

CDCA is founded by a group of nine people with the aim of advancing the lives of CwDs those from the remotest part of the Himalayan region of Nepal. It is officially registered with District Administration Office (DAO) of Kathmandu in 2006 with the registration number-861. And, has an affiliation with Social Welfare Council (SWC) of Nepal since November 5, 2011 (affiliation number-20,726). CDCA does not only rehabilitate the CwDs from poorest families of remotest areas of Nepal instead it is conducting several types of programmatic interventions. For instances, it annually provides free of cost medical treatment to those children with physical disabilities who are financially poor and are from the poorest families of the remotest places. Moreover, it provides scholarship to the needy school children for their partial support to acquire school education.