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“ PLEASE  TELL THE WORLD ABOUT MY GIRLS ”

                                            ANURADHA KOIRALA   -  Founder of Maiti Nepal

 

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As we take on this epic adventure originating in Pokhara, Nepal along with 60 teams to race across the breadth & depth of a subcontinent with three wheels, 7HP of raging power and a lot of courage to support Maiti Nepal an award winning ECPAT affiliate.

 

In Nepal, girls as young as six are at risk of being sold to brothels in India.

 

The missions of Friends of Maiti Nepal are : 

• To raise awareness of the sex trafficking problems in Nepal and India and describe Maiti Nepal goals and humanitarian  activities. 

• To provide a conduit for tax deductible donations from US tax payers to Maiti Nepal. 

• To provide services to Maiti Nepal in partnership with US medical, corporate and technology services providers. 

• To provide the administrative services required to support fundraising and public awareness.

 

About Maiti Nepal...

TRAFFICKING — A REGIONAL PROBLEM
Due to special and disastrous circumstances, Nepal is a major and growing source of girls trafficked into the brothels of India. The International Labour Organization estimates that 10,000 Nepalese girls and young women are sold annually into sexual slavery in India, and approximately 100,000 currently are being held there. All of the major societal and economic
causes of female trafficking exist in Nepal and are exacerbated by: (1) a 1,000 mile “open” border with India allowing free access; (2) a widespread Maoist insurgency which has diverted the attention and resources of law and governmental officials; and, (3) strong demand for Nepali girls who are viewed by brothel customers as “exotic.”
In addition, Nepal faces a growing health crisis as returning victims of trafficking spread a variety of diseases in a country with extremely limited public health resources. Official estimates are that 70% of returning victims areHIV/AIDSpositive. Nepal, one of the poorest nations in the world, shares with India a human rights and public health disaster.Within a short distance of the Indian border 3,000,000 Nepalese girls and women between the ages of 8 to 20 remain at high risk.

THE FOCUS OF MAITI NEPAL
Maiti Nepal is primarily focused on rescue and intervention, public awareness and advocacy, victim care and rehabilitation. about Maiti Nepal

Rehabilitation
The largest facility, which includes the administration offices, is the
Rehabilitation Center in Kathmandu, Nepal. It provides a broad range of assistance including shelter , education, counseling, medical care and psychological support. Many of the young women (and their infants) have been abandoned at the Nepalese border by the brothel owner because they have tested HIV positive. Some have been rescued, others have escaped on their own and found their way to the shelter. At the Center much emphasis is placed on education and job training, personal health care and medical intervention, and arranging for a dignified funeral for the terminally ill. Medical services are provided by local doctors and nurses with physical examinations and psychological counseling for the survivors. These services assist the staff of Maiti Nepal to evaluate and assist each victim according to her specific needs.

Public awareness and advocacy is also an important part of Maiti Nepal’s mission. This includes public information campaigns, orientation programs in schools, lobbying politicians, ensuring media coverage of the issue, exposing perpetrators publicly, and working with police and and victims to prosecute traffickers.

Rescue and Intervention: These activities are carried out through two types of facilities:

Border Transit Residences: Maiti Nepal now has 12 Border Transit Residences operating at major border crossings into India. The volunteers staffing these homes are girls and young women who have been rescued from the brothels in India. Residences are equipped to accommodate 30 girls and young women at any one time. They provide shelter to victims rescued from Indian brothels and also those who have been intercepted at borders while in the process of being trafficked. The Border Transit Residences also ensure safe passage for the girls returning to their villages.
In addition to providing a safe haven, Border Transit Residences are engaged in counseling, facilitating medical check-ups to determine health status, tracing and identifying parents or guardians, ensuring a safe passage to home and reuniting with respective families, motivating victims to identify traffickers, working with police to intercept potential victims and apprehend traffickers, and building local support networks. Within a few months of arrival at the Border Transit Residence, survivors are reunited with their families or transferred to rehabilitation centers.
A good working relationship has been established between the local police and girls from the Border Transit Homes who help to identify traffickers. Their surveillance work has been a major deterrent to traffickers as they are experienced in spotting potential victims. They watch the border crossings and immediately report to the border police suspicious situations such as a girl or several girls being “escorted” across the border. Cases of missing girls, requests for rescue from brothels, and instances of domestic violence, are regularly registered at the Border Transit Residences. An average of six to seven applications are received per week.

Prevention Homes: Maiti Nepal has created five Prevention Homes. They have been placed in remote areas in Nepal where trafficking is widespread. The goals of the Prevention Homes are, first, to intercept and rescue potential victims of trafficking, second to provide education to girls and women who are in danger of being sold into prostitution, and third, to give vocational training to girls at risk.

 

 
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