Nepal
Not For Sale Nepal…
- Employs trafficking survivors to work in conjunction with border police and identify traffickers and their victims in transit to India.
- Operates nine Intervention Outposts that serve as immediate shelters for identified victims.
In 2008 alone, our teams on the border rescued 1747 girls from the sex trade.
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The Background
NGOs estimate that 10,000 to 15,000 Nepali women and children are trafficked to India each year. Young girls, often under the age of 16 are lured by false hope for economic opportunities in neighboring countries.
The Solution
In partnership with Maiti Nepal, Not For Sale urgently want to expand our Nepal project to another 4 crossings — all of which would include safe houses, monitoring programs, and services such as income generating vocational training at the border town. Each border center can be established for $25,000. It takes only two weeks to get an outposts up and running. These funds would go directly to saving young girls from sex slavery, and helping survivors regain their health as they transition to lives of freedom.
Success Story: Jasmine Ghising
Jasmine Ghising, now 26 years old, grew up in a small village. She had never been to school, was illiterate and could not find work. Many of the girls in her village were leaving to work in Gulf Country and when Jasmine saw these wonderful opportunities being offered around her, she wanted the same.
Then one day, a woman, a neighbor named Sabitri, offered Jasmine a job abroad. When Sabitri ensured her travel expenses would be provided Jasmine reached for the opportunity. She was unskilled, uneducated, and did not even know the destination of where she was supposedly going to work. So, when the Intervention Team on the Nepal-India border encountered Sabitri and Jasimine, their separate stories were a red flag. Jasmine was taken to the safehouse where she learned about safe migration. NFS Nepal helped her find a job as a chef in Kathmandu where she is happy and working hard to provide for her and her family.
PHOTO © TORA MÅRTENS
