In 2005, some of the major stories in the news were the terrible tsunami in South-East Asia and the earthquake in Pakistan. But outside the media spotlight, the hidden crises carried on. We continued to work in some areas of forgotten crisis, as well as in situations that remain in the world’s headlines. We operated in Armenia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iraq, and co-operated with local organisations in Romania, Bulgaria and Nepal.

The countries we work in all have in common huge social and economic transitions. Our concern is to help those people who are often the last to feel the benefits of transition.

2005 demonstrated that however much progress is made in the field of development, new disasters will continue to come and there will always be a huge need for organisations like Mission East.

Mission East is now introducing a new format for its magazine for English speaking readers. The magazine will be published twice a year and will keep you updated on our work and the countries Mission East works in. In this magazine we put spotlight on the year that has passed. We look at the results we achieved in some of the world´s poorest places. We continued to work in some areas of forgotten crisis, as well as in situations that remain in the world’s headlines. We operated in Armenia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iraq, and co-operated with local organisations in Romania, Bulgaria and Nepal.

In Nepal many children do not have the right to a childhood. They grow up without ever getting a chance to go to school or to play. An estimated 2.6 million children are involved in child labour, and so was the boy Pradeep. At the age of four he was doing domestic labour for a family that he did not know.

Pradeep has no memory of his parents. Perhaps they were killed in the ongoing armed conflict between the Maoists and the government, or perhaps they were too poor to feed him, or perhaps they simply sold him to survive. Many Nepalese children are not orphans, but are orphaned because of the desperate poverty that their parents are trapped in.

But Pradeep is lucky. Today, he is living at the Eternity Orphanage Home, which is run by Mission East’s local partner, NASSO. Unlike many Nepalese children at his age Pradeep has enough food to eat, he has access to health care and education and last but not least he is loved by the staff and his friends at the orphanage whom he plays with every day. In this magazine you can read Pradeep’s story.

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Annual report 04
The Mission East annual report 2004 is now available for download. In this report you can read about our projects, our staff members and the countries in which we worked last year. You can also take a glance at the Mission East annual accounts.

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