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Safe Nepal Project When you purchase one of these products, you are supporting the rescue of a few of the estimated 100,000-­‐200,000 Nepali women who are trafficked in India and Nepal against their will. Please request a necklace, bracelet of pair of ear rings for a suggested contribution of $7 each. For many years, Girls from Nepal have constituted the major proportion of commercial sex workers in the brothels of India and Nepal. Most of them are minors and most become infected with HIV AIDS. Life for them is hell in red light zones where they are abused physically and sexually, bonded by the owner for years, tortured and imprisoned. Many women are tricked into this trap. Poor families living in rural parts of Nepal get easily allured by the dreams of cities, good job and better life and easily handover their innocent, young and minor girls to the recruiter and relatives who sell these young lives for trivial sum of money to the brothels. The illiterate and ignorant girls are made to sell their body to re-­‐earn the amount including the interest for which they were bought by the brothel and hence entrapped as bonded labor for years. Escape is virtually impossible under the direct surveillance, threat and terror of owners. The corruption prevalent in police and government of both India and Nepal make both the trafficking easy and escape impossible. This experience makes these women unacceptable to society, making reintegration and repatriation difficult and sometimes impossible. Besides sexual exploitation, girls have also been trafficked to work in circus, for the sale of kidney, marriage, domestic worker, cheap laborers in various parts of India and Nepal. With the changing perspective of migration, rising level of awareness among women and shift of trafficking pattern in Nepal, Safe Family Nepal has now been focusing on trafficking of girls in Nepal and India. Lots of Nepali youth are moving to Arabian countries, Malaysia and other countries besides India for newer and better employment opportunities, especially as housekeepers and factory workers. Many girls lured by dream of better world and job follow the path led by unauthorized dealers and traffickers and end up being sexually exploited and enslaved. SAFE FAMILY NEPAL operates a family home in Kathmandu to provide shelter and vocational training to victims of trafficking in order to alleviate their poverty and improve their living standard. We are trying to prevent trafficking in women and children by generating social awareness especially among rural people and conducting border monitoring and cross border programs. It promotes self-­‐reliance, self-­‐confidence and leadership skill in women by economic empowerment, vocational training, non-­‐formal education and cooperative. It enhances leadership in grass root level women and increases the participation of women in local, regional and national decision levels. It also renders legal protection and represents the victims in any legal processes and procedures. Safe Family Nepal is a Christian organization so we provide biblical based counseling to our rescued girls, which can change their life forever. Accepting Christ as their personal savior is an option to them. It has to be their personal decision. At least seven have recently taken baptism. All of our rescue girls want to work hard. If we give them work they wake up at four in the morning and start to work. They make necklaces, bracelets and hand made Nepali paper greetings cards. They work hard because they know, it is going to help them in the future to start their small business after taking training such as tailoring and beauty parlor. Income from the sale of these items gives 20% as pocket money and 80% goes to their individual account so that by the time they finish their training they will have some money to start their life. Please join with us in prayer for the support of our ministry, Income from the sale of these items is going to be a seed money to our sister’s life because they have come to our safe home with big hope to be reestablished in their society. For this, we give God all the glory and honor. Jenisha (in picture) just turned 15 years old. She was
sold in one of the guest houses in Kathmandu about
a year ago when she was 13 years old. Just three
months ago, the guest house owner was taking them
to Bangalore India to sell her along with another two
girls who are 15 and 16 (younger girls fetch a higher
price). Her captors drugged her to make her
unconscious while crossing the border to India.
Before attempting to take these girls to India, they
were using these three girls in a hotel in Nepal near
the Indian border for two months. During that time
Project Nepal worked with the police to arrest all of
the captors and brought them to Kathmandu for
investigation. Two girls had parents but Jenisha had
nowhere to go. Her mom has a mental disorder and
her father died when Jenisha was 3 years old. Safe
Nepal Project is clearing up all the papers from police
to bring Jenisha to our safe home. There she can rest
and have new life with our Lord Jesus. Praise God
they were not able to take her to India. Janisha’s
story is so heart-breaking because she was being used a lot in the past year. The lady
smashed her fingers because she refused a customer. She said they used to send many big
Indian guys and she had to serve them according to their will. Try to imagine how difficult her
situation has been. The two women, who were using these children are in prison. Janisha is
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now safe with Project Safe Nepal and has recently celebrated her 15 birthday. [email protected] www.facebook.com/SafeNepalProject www.safenepal.net