We have entered into the 21st century. UN has declared the year 2000 as The Year for the Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the children of the world and the year 2001 till 2010 as The Decade for the Culture of Peace and Non-violence.  Yet the situations of girl child remain the same. More and more girls and women are suffering because of increasing violence. Throughout the world, there are many children silently suffering the effects and consequences of violence such as physical violence, psychological violence, socio-economic violence, environmental violence, religious violence and political violence including the violence in the war situation.  This violence exists in many different forms such as the street children, child prostitution, child soldier, child workers etc.

Why Peace Camp for Girls only?

• Violence against the girl child is worst. One cannot imagine the type of violence the girl child suffers.
• The situation of girls in Asia especially Nepal  is worst.
• Girls are the source and the strength for Non-violence.

The objective of the Camp

• To Nurture and Strengthen the Culture of Non-violence and Peace,
• To Help each girl to discover by herself that non-violence is inevitable
• To Share and exchange the wealth of ones culture
• To Provide mediation skills,
• To offer hope by beginning to create, build & strengthen the Culture of Peace and Non-violence.
• To Establish friendly and peaceful relationships among the girls in different regions in Nepal and Asia. 
• To have loose and friendly network of Girl Child Peace Makers

 We hope this Peace Camp will be an exploration, a journey towards peace. We need to discover the seed of peace that is within us and know how to strengthen the seed of peace. In this camp we will work on ways to explore peace within and nurture it. The root will be the knowledge , wisdom and experience of the elders and the young will march ahead based on that.

Girl Child Peace Camp (Asia and Nepal):

1st Asia Girl Child Peace Camp"(from Oct 30th till Nov 7th 1999) attended by the girls from 13 countries.
• 2nd Asia Girl Child Peace Camp (from 6th Oct till 13th Oct 2003) attended by the girls from 11 countries.
• 3rd Asia Girl Child Peace Camp (from December 28th 2006 till January 2nd 2006) attended by 11 countries.
• A five day "Girl Child Peace Camp", for Nepali girls of Kathmandu Valley.
• 2nd Nepali Girl Child Peace Camp (from Dec 24th till 29th 2004).