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About VIN
Volunteers Initiative Nepal's (VIN) mission is to empower marginalized communities, with a focus on women and children, through enhanced educational programs and community training to promote equality, economic wellbeing and basic human rights.
Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN) is a non-religious, non-political, non-governmental, non-for-profit organization (NGO) which was founded in 2005 by a diverse group drawn from development workers, educationalists, social activists and other professionals.
Objectives
VIN aims to give people the right tools and knowledge to help themselves. The focus is on helping women and children through special educational programs and community training projects conducted independently and/or in association with like minded organisations. VIN has addopted an integrated community development approach.
In Nepal, a newborn baby dies every 20 minutes and every 4 hours a woman dies of child birth related causes; 32,000 babies die each year during the first month of life; diarrhoeal disease which can be treated with low cost medicine is the fourth leading cause of death.
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