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Maiti Nepal Annual Report 2014.Indd www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g]kfn 1 A N N U A L R E P O R T dfOtL g]kfn Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Contents dfOtL g ]kfn] 2 Date of registration: 1993 Registration no.: 413/049/050 under Article 4 of the Institutional Registration Act of 2034 Place of registration: Kathmandu District Administrative Office Affiliations: Social Welfare Council, Government of Nepal; affiliate no.1137 ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) ATSEC Nepal Chapter (Action against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children) Headquarters: Kathmandu Regional headquarters: Kakarvitta, Bharatpur, and Bhairawa in the Eastern, Central and Western development regions respectively Infrastructure: 3 prevention homes, 09 transit homes, 2 rehabilitation homes, and 2 hospices, 01 half way home, 03 Information and Counselling centre around the country www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Introduction Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn] 3 ne of the most cherished words in Nepali Vision has to be Maiti, a married woman’s A society free of the sexual and other forms of Ochildhood home. This is where, as a girl, exploitation of children and women she receives unconditional love, and, where, as a woman living in her Ghar, or husband’s home, she returns to celebrate important festivals and to Mission recover after the birth of her children. Beyond To combat exploitation, violence, and traffi cking being just a word, Maiti is a concept: it represents of children and women through comprehensive a place of security and comfort, a sanctuary in prevention and rehabilitation programs promoting a world that can be terribly cruel, especially to education, empowerment, health, and social inclusion. women. Objectives Maiti Nepal is just such a refuge for Nepali women Advocate, conduct awareness campaigns, seek who every year fi nd themselves traffi cked, exploited public support, and create social pressure against or abused or who have their rights denied. Founded traffi cking of children and women in 1993 and headquartered in Kathmandu, this Provide counselling, support and life skills to non-profi t, secular organisation works to protect children and women at risk of being traffi cked. vulnerable individuals, rescue victims and improve Rescue traffi cked children and women from their lives, promote child and women’s rights, and exploitative conditions abroad and repatriate them ultimately to end traffi cking altogether through four Provide legal services, health counselling, and key activity sectors: prevention, advocacy, rescue, assistance to destitute women, survivors of girl and rehabilitation. In its efforts, Maiti Nepal seeks traffi cking and victims of domestic violence. to build awareness and secure the cooperation of Rehabilitate survivors by providing them with school and college students, parliamentarians, law education, counselling, and a safe home. enforcement agencies and organisations in Nepal as Shelter orphans and destitute children and well as their counterparts in India. support their overall development. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Overview dfOtL g ]kfn] Programme Activities Prevention and students, establishing students-against-human- Operating prevention homes, running formal and traffi cking groups, establishing information and non-formal education programmes, providing resource centres and community outreach programmes vocational income-generating training and conducting cross-sectoral meetings, linking and micro-credit, establishing community safety networking with line agencies. nets, promoting women’s empowerment and safe migration, intercepting potential victims, and Rescue scaling-up initiatives. Securing liberation or withdrawal and facilitating repatriation. Advocacy Conducting mass community awareness campaigns, Rehabilitation orientations and trainings; training school teachers Providing medical services and crisis counselling, identifying families and reuniting survivors, mainstreaming into formal education, providing life skills anandd gagainfulinful empemployment,loyment, esestablishingtablishing seself-helplf-help groups and conducting rights-based training, apprehending anandd fi ling charges against offenders, reintegrating survivors and following up on their progressprogress.. 4 INDIA N N N AnnualAnnual StatisticsStatistics Total interceptions MAITI NEPAL'S 2,904 PROGRAMME AREAS Migrants informed at borders 1,34,718 Transit Home Prevention Home Victims rescued 183 Rehabilitation Home Human traffi cking cases initiated 19 Hospice Women trained at Prevention homes 80 Community Outreach Program N NAANI Missing/Found 1,533/342 Safe Migration Centre www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Prevention Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn] Prevention Homes In an ideal world, no child or women would Important dates ever be trafficked; in reality, the vulnerable 8 March will still be sold. To counter this problem, International Women’s Day Maiti Nepal has taken several steps, as 5 September outlined below. National Anti-Traffi cking Day 1 December AIDS Day 5 Prevention Homes are beginning to understand the magnitude and ramifi cations of the problem. Three Maiti Nepal prevention homes run four to six month long residential trainings for up to 25 at-risk girls at a time. Their comprehensive Prevention homes programme includes psychological counselling Shelter vulnerable girls temporarily and self-esteem-building activities; lessons in Equip them with life and income-generating skills traffi cking, health care, child and women’s rights and social issues, and training in life and income- Promote awareness about human traffi cking generating skills such as sewing, candle making, fabric painting, tailoring, handloom weaving and Train girls to be social activists small scale entrepreneurship development. To motivate trainees to become social activists, the package also teaches leadership, group formation, Prevention home totals communication and community mobilisation skills. Girl trained on women empowerment 80 Graduates are empowered to conduct awareness Missing/Found campaigns, in particular about the methods of 51/10 traffi ckers; stand vigil in their communities; detect Rape cases registered in the court 10 warning signs and prevent traffi cking. Their success demonstrates that vulnerable populations Girls provided short term shelter 73 Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Prevention dfOtL g ]kfn] Chisapani, Nuwakot (est. March 1996) Since its inception in 1996, Prevention Home Nuwakot has so far provided training to 664 girls/women. In 2014, twenty-seventh group comprising of 20 (Twenty) trainees girls completed their training. 2014 Highlights 6 Settled 01 case of gender violence in favour of the Carried out an interaction and information sharing survivor. program for 79 community people in Chisapani on 8th April. A 21-year-old orphan girl of Talakhu VDC, Nuwakot, who arrived in 2002, is now a Bachelor Held a coordination meeting in Chisapani on 3rd level student; she also completed ANM (Auxiliary September with 19 members of government and Nurse Midwife) course, and working in government non government agencies on addressing human health institute; she is no longer a potential victim. traffi cking jointly. The Prevention Home has set a high priority on re- Organized anti traffi cking rally of 730 people in training and mobilising previous trainees. Under Talakhu; Chhap and Thakani, Sindhupalchowk on this important plan, 30 former trainees were re- 4th and 5th September. formed into three groups with the aim of spreading Celebrated eight national anti-traffi cking day awareness against human traffi cking in their on 5th September by organizing quiz contest respective areas. and elocution competitions for 250 students and 03 girls (Orphan and deprived) from the districts of members of women groups. Nuwakot and Sindhupalchowk were provided with Previous trainees of the prevention home educational scholarship. conducted awareness programs from 3rd to 6th Prevention home trainees conducted 30 awareness June and from 3rd to 5th September in Thangsing, raising activities in form of door-to-door Chhap, Kharanitar, Kabilas, Likhu, Balkumari campaigns, orientation and interaction programs and Sundaradevi in Nuwakot district; in Haibung in Nuwakot, Sindhupalchwok, and Kathmandu and Thakani of Sindhupalchowk district; and in districts reaching 833 people; more than 800 Lapsephedi of Kathmandu district reaching 250 posters were pasted on walls and public places. people Celebrated 104th International Women's Day on Prevention home conducted regular awareness 8th March in Chisapani by organising cultural programmes in Sindhupalchowk and Nuwakot program and quiz contest on human traffi cking districts and distributed more than 6,000 IEC reaching 523 people. materials. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Prevention Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn] Case Study Tara is now self-sustained by running tailoring shop e Tara Tamang work of Maiti Nepal. As my is from family condition is also poor I MSindhupalchowk thought that
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