Sheltering hope: A case study on the urgent need for care and support for homeless people in Nepalese society

Homeless means person with no home to his/ her own living support by others. Worldwide, we can see many homeless people living in the street, by the mercy of development institutions, relatives, and through care centers. In context of Nepal, homeless people are raising day-by-day reasoning many social and cultural factors. This study has been designed to analysis the situation of homeless people in Nepal. A data obtained from the pilot field study during an execution of Ph.D. dissertation program tried to highlight the situations of homeless people in the study area of Makwanpur district, Hetauda city within Bagmati Province. Both a qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied in this study and try to reflect the situation analysis for the homeless peoples.
The collected data further illustrate that the homeless people are caused due to the social, cultural, and psychological reason as stated by the surveyed respondents. The study data also highlights that all respondents are residing under the care center which is taking care and providing best to survive and make them able to perform best in the society. However, many challenges arouse to run the center among which funding constrains is the major and lack of interest of the development agencies are the ongoing challenges in the present-past conditions. The study concluded as the homeless are burning issues in the Nepalese society are raising the number of challenges and all types of supports are required to manage the challenges in the coming days. A long-term policy strategy is the need of the study are, however a comprehensive survey is advised.