Services

Type of Cases handled by Service Unit including 10 RENEW CSCs

The RENEW scholarship program has been providing educational support to vulnerable children since 2005. These children are survivors of domestic violence and sexual and gender-based violence, and children who have been abandoned and neglected. The programme provides financial support to students from the pre-primary level till the 12th grade. After 12th grade other means of support are sought such as college scholarships and sponsorships to continue education or take up vocational training.

Initially Friends of RENEW supported scholarships for children in need. In 2011, it became a full-fledged program with long term support of the AHF (Australian Himalayan Foundation).

1. Create conducive learning environment for children through scholarship support.
2. Prevent children from dropping out of schools due to lack of financial support.
3. Provide immediate support to children impacted domestic violence/gender-based violence.
4. Ensure children of their rights to safe, healthy, happy, equitable, just and fulfilling life.
5. Increase opportunities to progress to tertiary education.

1. Parents/guardians/schools/local leaders/CBSS Volunteers refer children in need to RENEW.
2. Registration of applicants at RENEW Service Unit
3. Applicant assessment done by counsellors and selection by the scholarship committee.
4. Fund disbursement and other support.

Since the program began in 2005, hundreds of children have received education support from RENEW. From 2019 to 2023, 928 children across the country were scholarship recipients. Across the country there were 197 students under the program in 2023, with 27 students living permanently at the Gawaling Happy Home shelter in Thimphu.

RENEW will continue to strengthen the program and reach out to as many children that need educational support, particularly vulnerable children and survivors of domes tic violence and sexual abuse, to enable them to become socially and economically productive individuals.

1. Counseling for families, couples and individuals. As part of counseling we have healing programs too.
2. Pro-bono Legal Aid with full-time professional lawyers for a range of legal services.
3. Pyscho-social care.
4. Emergency Shelter for protection of survivors and their families during crisis.
5. Scholarship for vulnerable children and social orphans.
6. Livelihood skills and Micro Finance as part of the social integration scheme.
7. Gawailing provides ECCD, medical aid services and children’s recreation park.

RENEW began providing emergency shelter services in 2005, a year after its inception as some walk in clients needed protection and safety. For several years RENEW operated an undisclosed shelter space in the capital before the Gawailing Happy Home opened in 2013. As and when required, emergency services are accessible in 10 of the country’s 20 districts overseen by a qualified counselor and case manager.

In the next five years RENEW will expand emergency shelter services to all 20 districts in partnership with the local communities and volunteers, to advance the crucial agenda of enabling survivors of domestic and gender based violence to rebuild their lives and become socially and economically productive individuals.