Our Projects: Nepal
SAFE FROM TRAFFICKING
General Welfare Pratisthan (GWP)Makwanpur District, Nepal
General Welfare Pratisthan (GWP) is a development organization committed to making lasting positive change in the lives of Nepali girls who are in jeopardy of being trafficked or have escaped from sexual slavery. GO's first grant to GWP supported 46 Self Help Groups which improved the lives of more than 600 girls by involving them in skills training and microfinance opportunities, educated them about HIV/AIDS, and empowered them to educate their community about how to identify traffickers and combat sexual slavery. This first grant established the foundation for these 46 groups and GO would like to ensure these lifesaving solutions have a sustaining effect.
The second year grant will:
- Increase the knowledge and efficiency of the 46 group leaders and ensure they can continue to organize and empower their members.
- Provide education loans, economic loans and vocational training such as papermaking and management skills, including how to own and operate a self-sustained business.
- Run literacy trainings through ?Send Your Daughter to School? and ?Teach Your Peer? programs.
- Educate the girls about primary and reproductive health and provide basic health services.
- Support anti-trafficking, women?s empowerment and HIV/AIDS awareness events for the community, anticipated to reach thousands.
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FEATURED BIOS
My own daughter was trafficked 3 years ago. At that time I was in big problem. Any way I became success to get her back home. Now I think if GWP started this type of awareness training program 3 years ago in our community my daughter would not have been trafficked.
My name is Sita Rumba from Badel Dhap, Makwanpur. I have been involving in a group formed by GWP since 9 years old and now I am a group leader. I did not have idea of raising voice against female problem and leading to the group before. Now I can speak up and our group has returned a female from trafficking, arrested a trafficker and built a small bridge (Kulo Pul) with the support of community! Recently I finished a 6 month beauty parlor training organized by GWP. I have planned to run small beauty parlor in my village in partnership with my friend. Now I need business skills. I thanks to GWP for playing a vital role to make me efficiency, capable and independent.
WHY MAKWANPUR, NEPAL
Poverty, gender inequality, low levels of education and literacy, violence denial, stigma and discrimination are major contributing factors to trafficking, HIV and AIDS vulnerability in Nepal. These contributing factors are being exacerbated in the rural communities and it becomes a vicious circle of poverty and gender inequality.
The adolescent girl population in Nepal is particularly vulnerable to trafficking, HIV infection, early and unwanted pregnancy, and lack of education. Traditionally, girls tend to get married at a young age: 44% of girls aged 15-19 were married according to the 1996 National Family Health Survey Report. Trafficking is one of the main factors boosting the HIV/AIDS infection: returned girls are often unwanted by their communities of origin and frequently re-enter in the circle of prostitution to survive, thus contributing to the silent spread of HIV/AIDS.
Makwanpur District has one of the highest rates of persons being trafficked and sold to Indian and Nepali brothels, factories, or to other clients in other destinations. Makwanpur is known as a "hill" district and is largely rural and the vast majority of people support themselves through small farms. Approximately 400,000 people reside in the district and nearly 80% of people belong to the Tamang ethnic group considered low caste and are among the most disadvantage groups in Nepali society. For this and other reasons that have not been adequately explored, Tamangs are especially vulnerable to human trafficking. GWP has chosen to work in Makwanpur to reduce the number of families affected by trafficking and increase the potential for girls to play a role in breaking the cycle of poverty.
