With the civil unrest of the past decade, many hundreds of children have been placed in orphanages. Of the over 13,000 orphans, only 1.5% are adopted. Those not adopted still need a great deal in order to thrive both while in the orphanages and after they leave at the age of 16.
"Before the Kumari Project came to our orphanage, nobody had ever asked anything about what we wanted or needed. Nobody knew who we were." -Sunita, Age 12