Services

326,560 Services were provided to 9,745 Clients since 2004.

Counselling

RENEW offers free counseling services, including individual, joint/couple, and family counseling, to those affected by domestic violence and gender-based violence across the country.

Type of Cases handled by Service Unit including 10 RENEW CSCs

Scholarship Programs

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)

Program Aims

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

Program Procedure

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

Beneficiaries

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.

Gawailing Happy Home

The Gawailing Happy Home, RENEW’s safe home, provides emergency protection and pyscho-social care services to survivors and family members of domestic, sexual and gender based violence, including children.

Managed by a qualified counsellor, property manager and caretakers, the Happy Home services is available 24 hours a day and as of December 2023.

The Gawailing Happy Home represents an integral service RENEW provides to survivors of domestic, sexual and gender based violence who need immediate protection and a safe place to heal and rebuild their lives.

More than 1,800 beneficiaries, including 1,098 girls and 292 boys, have sheltered in Gawailing since it opened in 2013.

The Gawailing Happy Home provides:

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

Gawailing Happy Home Beneficiaries 2013 – 2023

Way Forward

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.

Micro-finance

RENEW introduced the Microfinance Project in 2021. RENEW Microfinance Project has been certified as a Deposit Taking MFI by the RMA and has been incorporated as Private Limited Company under the Companies Act of Bhutan 2016. The Company now covers ten Dzongkhags.