Nepalese girls moved to home run by NGO

COIMBATORE: The 23 Nepal girls rescued from an orphanage near Sulur were shifted to an non-governmental organisation (NGO)-run home on Sunday after they refused to take food protesting poor facilities at the social welfare department’s home.The girls were earlier housed at the government home after an RDO inquiry was ordered into the issue. However, on Saturday night the girls refused to take food citing that the home does not even have proper toilet facilities following which officials assured action.On Sunday morning, they were moved to the Kovai Marialaya Home at Ganapathy. “They have given us better facility. We are awaiting the government’s decision on when to take back the children to their native country,” said Dhailaja, representative of the Esther Benjamin Trust, which was involved in tracing the Nepal children.Meanwhile, the social welfare department suggested that the children could be handed over to the Nepal Embassy. The Coimbatore district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) had initially planned to transfer the girls to Child Welfare Committee of the Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh, which borders Nepal from where the parents of the girls could take them.