Program Overview
The root causes of trafficking are illiteracy, disempowerment, and poverty.
Ending trafficking is a multi-faceted approach. Communities and many agencies work together to ensure safety for young children. Helping just the children isn’t a solution, but ensuring that families and members within the community have access to resources and job creation is equally as important.
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Leadership Training
When a young woman can see her potential, value and worth, it ripples through her own community, and trafficking ultimately stops.
Social Enterprise
Economic Development within communities is an important pillar for stopping orphanage and child sex trafficking. Traffickers can earn an entire year’s income from the sale of one person. Approaching trafficking from a whole-community endeavor provides alternative opportunities for income generation.
Micro Savings & Loan Program
Shikharbesi Nepal
2016 – Current
Objective: Shikharbesi Women’s Group is comprised of 20 women (and their families). The Women’s Group collectively has opened up bank accounts for the first-time in their lives, learning to make monthly on-time payments.
Training program helps them apply for loans to start businesses which include training and technical assistance in business plan development, management, bookkeeping, marketing, and farm-to-market facilitation.
Impact:
- Currently serving over 20 families annually
- 8 farming businesses developed and started
Micro Savings & Loan Program
Ghyangphedi Nepal
2018 – Current
20 families are being supported with social entrepreneurial businesses within the community.
Brick-making Social Enterprise
Ghyangphedi Nepal
2020 – Current
Budding entrepreneurs produce high-quality bricks, using local materials ideally suited to rural communities. To date, 100 community members have been employed through our brick-making program.
Sustainable Schools Funding Program
Pokhari Nepal
Completed 2014
Budding entrepreneurs produce high-quality bricks, using local materials ideally suited to rural communities. To date, 100 community members have been employed through our brick-making program.
Annapurna Self-Sustaining Orphan Home
Pokhara Nepal
Completed 2016
Ownership of 13 cows were transferred from JanaJyoti Primary School to Annapurna Self-Sustaining Orphan Home to provide income generation for the facility. Currently the home operates on the “Give the Net, Not the Fish” philosophy, serving 34 children full time, seeing them through college graduation. The cows helps offset costs associated with running the home.
Widow And Abandoned Mothers Social Enterprise
Dhorphidi Nepal
Completed 2011
Sustainable program focused on keeping children together and with their families by identifying business opportunities, providing business/vocational training, and providing financing of the identified farming business. Impact: The Rana Mayar family was able to become fully self-sufficient through animal husbandry. All six children were able to remain within their family unit and community.
Job Creation
When constructing our learning centers and educational facilities, we always employ locally. This helps inject income generation into the community. Additionally, transportation costs are reduced by bringing the brick-making to the community. Through innovative machines, training and support, entrepreneurs produce high-quality bricks, using local materials ideally suited to rural communities. Afterward, the machines are donated to the community to use as a social business. To date, over 100 community members are employed through our brick-making program.
Self-Defense Workshops
Tackling the child trafficking epidemic wouldn’t be complete without providing the skills and training to defend oneself should the situation arise. Volunteers work with us to provide training programs and workshops at local schools. Current efforts have trained over 80 young women in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Collaborative Brothel Rescue
We partner with international rescue organizations to provide valuable data that assists in the rescue of children from the villages in which we operate. To date, 7 Nepali girls in Indian brothels have been located. They are currently awaiting extraction.
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