THIS (The Himalayan Innovative Society) was established in January 2003 by local people from the area that THIS serves: the Humla district and the Mid-western region of Nepal. Their motive is to help the local deprived communities in the areas of education, health, tourism, income generation, culture, and heritage preservation, and human rights especially women and children’s rights. In their endeavor to protect children from  unnecessary separation from parents and families and i unnecessary institutionalization, the organization has stood high as the important hands of government and also the community to prevent the children from unnecessary separation, rescuing children and arranging suitable alternative care, reintegration, and reunion with family and community and also gathering knowledge through research work. Their practice is one of the best practice examples of Nepal. 

The best practices flow through the three key interventions model 

1. Prevention: Educating people about the harms of institutionalization of children

2. Rescue, Transition, and Reintegration of children to the family:   Keeping families together through reintegration of children process

3. Sensitization and Research: happy families and happy children make prosperous Nepal

With their model of promotion of children's rights to parental care and family, they have been able to reunite 1034 families reaching 67 districts out of 77 districts of Nepal, and have reached out to 50,000 people in Nepal. 

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