What sets the charity apart from most, is the fact that CWS works with the local Nepali people in a cooperative partnership, rather than the more usual method of ineffective donorship. CWS hopes that others, working in the the field of development, will be able to benefit from the lessons they have learned. Traditionally parents and older brothers and sisters are busy working in the fields and jungle for a large part of the day, and young children are left to care for even younger children.
Accidents can happen, and illnesses often go unnoticed.
A DCC is therefore somewhere for children from 2-6 years old to be from 10 am to 3 pm, six days a week. This frees parents, especially mothers and older siblings. The mothers can then work freely in the fields or home and the older brothers or sisters are free to go to school themselves. There is a nurse in every DCC, and children are checked each day, health problems being dealt with immediately. The emphasis on health follows the philosophy of 'prevention rather than cure'.