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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

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AnnualAnnual StatistiStatisticscs 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.

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 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 Maiti Nepal will district. I am 18 years old. help me to give training in We have nine members in our income generating skills. After family. I have a step mother. thinking that, I went to Maiti My mother died when I Nepal and told them about my was very small. Now I don't condition and my education. remember her face. When After hearing my problem they I was small I did not know gave me a training of tailoring. that my mother had died and I took training for six months mother who we have right now and became able to sew was our step- mother. I am self clothes. After getting training, I knew about her through our I thank Maiti Nepal for sustained. By villager. I cried a lot when providing me such a nice and 7 my earnings, I I knew about our mother. I useful training. In our village don't know how my mother there is not so much tailors to can support my died. But step- mother is sew clothes. So I started to sew younger brother like our own mother. My clothes for the rural people of parents go to jungle to collect my village and worked as a and elder fi rewood, timber and grass social worker. for cattle. I have three elder sister. My life is I did that work for some brothers and they all are months and after that Maiti secured now. farmers but two brothers are Nepal requested me to help in foreign countries for the Maiti Nepal’s other girls to give training work. I also have two elder in tailoring. I thought about training made sisters and they are already it for some time and later on married and they are happy in me eligible. agreed to work there as and their new homes. my salary was Rs 6000 per My father never stopped me month. Maiti Nepal also has from going to school. He done many things for me. I always told me that I can study want to continue my studies as much as I like. I continued and also continue my work in my study up to grade twelve. coming future as well. Now, But my grade twelve exam I am self sustained. By my was not so nice and result was earnings, I can support my bad. There was nothing to do younger brother and elder after becoming fail in grade sister. My life is secured now. twelve. Maiti Nepal is near to Maiti Nepal’s training made our house and I knew about me eligible. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Prevention dfOtL g ]kfn]

Hetauda, Makwanpur (est. 1997) Since the beginning of the prevention Home Hetauda, Makwanpur, 730 girls and women have received basic training on sewing, tailoring and to become social activist.

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 Twenty (20) girls belonging to 32 batch  Traced and reunited ten (10) out of Fifty One (51) completed their residential training whereas girls reported missing by their families. twenty (20) girls belonging to 33 batch are still  Provided counselling on safe migration and undergoing training in the prevention home. different dimension of traffi cking to two hundred  Provided short term shelter for thirty three and fi fteen (215) girls/ women at District (33) children and women who were referred Administration Offi ce. to the prevention home by the police and local  Reached out to 700 people of Ghyampe Dada, organizations. Makwanpur through door-door awareness  Rescued and repatriated four (4) girls. One (1) campaign organized on 6th April 2014. girl was rescued from Kuwait, one (1) girl was  To mark the 8th National Anti-traffi cking day, rescued from Delhi and two (2) were rescued prevention home organised a door to door from Pune. Four (4) girls were rescued from a program on 3rd September reaching to 800 people restaurant at Birgunj. of Basamadi VDC.  Fifty four (54) cases of gender violence were  Commemorated 8th Anti Human Traffi cking Day reported and solved in favour of the applicants. by organising a rally and a corner meeting of 300  Registered ten (10) cases of rape in the district people in Hetauda on 5th September 2014. court. Four cases were decided in favour of  Organized a candle-light program in participation the survivors. One perpetuator was sentenced of 100 people to mark 16 Days of Activism for 6 months of imprisonment for marital against Gender Violence on 25th November 2014 rape, two criminals were sentenced for five in Hetauda. years and one criminal was sentenced for five years and had to pay NRS 100, 000/- as a  Celebrated the International Migrant’s Day on compensation to the survivor. Other six cases 18th December by organising a rally of 250 are undergoing trial. people in Hetauda. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Prevention Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Case Study Brutally tortured by her own husband

fter 6 years long law was in the same room. relationship, Srijana AAcharya decided to get Days had passed after the married to Suman Upadhyaya. incident, but Srijana despite She was an undergraduate art such brutality upon her student and also worked in a remained shut. She was fi nance company. Ever since obviously shaken up with the she got married, her in-laws, incident but she never spoke primarily her aunt in law and her of it with anyone. She decided husband tormented her mentally to go to her mother’s place but and physically. She suspected few days after her stay there, that her husband had an illicit her husband shows up. For no Days had passed relationship with his aunt. reasons, he starts beating her up and unable to bear the ruthless after the incident, Because it was a love marriage, beating, she collapses. but Srijana Srijana patiently endured all the wrong happenings to her. Suman was held by the 9 despite such She could not complain to her police who were called by the brutality upon her parents nor could she narrate villagers. Poor Srijana was her ordeal to any of her friends. admitted to the hospital and remained shut. She had loved this man for was in a very bad shape. It She was obviously six years and she knew back was one of her villagers who then that he would be the best told Srijana and her mother shaken up with fi t for her. But things changed about Maiti Nepal. Srijana the incident but drastically after marriage, and thereafter enrolled herself the person she knew once, was in Maiti Nepal’s Prevention she never spoke a complete stranger now. Home and underwent various trainings. In the meanwhile, of it with anyone. Srijana often complained of she fi led a case of rape against minor physical illness. Her aunt her husband and brother in law. in law would give her medicine The aunt is sent behind bars saying that it would cure her while a case is running against discomfort. Soon she realized the perpetrators. Srijana has that the aunt had been giving recently completed her training her sleeping pills. One day, in the Prevention Home. after taking one such pill, she soon fell asleep. She remembers Srijana is thankful to Maiti being woken up by her husband Nepal for being a support to who threw himself upon her her in such a crucial phase. and raped her. In a while, her She wants to continue her husband’s younger brother studies and sees herself being joined in and raped her again. economically independent. During the incident, her aunt in Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Prevention dfOtL g ]kfn]

Information Desk for Promoting Safe Migration

10 he increasing Department of Passport at demand for foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs; T employment Passport Section, of District supported by unemployment, Administration Offi ce, Women are domestic violence, poverty Bhairahawa , Rupandehi reported to be much and a desire for better district, Chandragadi, vulnerable of sexual livelihood opportunities has Jhapa district, Dhulikhel drastically led to boost in Kavrepalanchowk district and and economic migration. Hetauda, Makwanpur district. exploitation in Women are reported to be Information desks at these all the processes much vulnerable of sexual places have been instrumental and economic exploitation in disseminating wider of migration i.e. in all the processes of knowledge on safe migration. migration i.e. from departure, from departure, From 1st January to 31st transportation to the December, the Information transportation to destination. Nepali female providers at TIA (Tribhuvan migrant workers have been the destination. International Airport), found passing through worst Passport Section at MOFA, Nepali female form of exploitation in Kathmandu and District foreign soil. migrant workers Administration Offi ce in have been found To address exploitation of Bhairahawa, Hetauda, foreign labour migrants and Chandragadi and Dhulikhel passing through to promote safe migration have been able to provide worst form of Maiti Nepal operates information on safe migration “Information Desks” at to 20,831 (Twenty thousand exploitation in Tribhuvan International eight hundred and thirty-one) foreign soil. Airport, Kathmandu; potential women migrants. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Prevention Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Case Study The Shattered Dreams riginally from Ilam, Maiya Maiya’s salary was Rs 60 dinar of 35 years old had left per month. The initial few months Ofor Kuwait to earn money passed sooner than she thought and support her family. Early from and she basically loved her work. her childhood, studying was never However, the house owner, a lady, her cup of tea. She rather enjoyed had started showing a brusque working with her mother in the behavior towards her. First, Maiya kitchen and involving in other did not take her that seriously and household chores.Soon after she thought she was probably a little turned 18, she was married with a strict, but once when the house lady man named Prasad. Her marriage assaulted her physically, Maiya was arranged by her parents and realized that the she was much within the next three years she different than what she expected. became a mother of two beautiful She was not paid and made to work children, a boy and a girl. Economic for endless hours without proper "I had high defi ciency was always the biggest food or rest. This actually became hindrance to a consistent activity. The beatings hopes for my came more regularly. life, had a lot the overall functioning of her family. Her children were getting older and After being repeatedly attacked, of dreams. she wanted to give them a quality Maiya resorted to the man of the 11 life. But with the minimalist income house to share her grief and to plead It was of her husband, this was next to with him to send her back to Nepal. shattered impossible. The man, conversely, took her to prison saying that she accused his into pieces. Getting a good education for her family with baseless allegations. He All I returned children and a better opportunity did not listen to her at all. He instead for herself, she resorted to foreign fi led groundless complaints on her back was employment for income generation like she use to steal in the house and and discussed about it with her beat his children mercilessly. Prison with grief and husband. After getting a positive was another hell for her. She was pain”. signal from him, she started robbed off her money by the fellow procedures to migrate to Kuwait as a mates. She was treated inhumanly foreign employee. by the prison guards. She saw her dreams being shattered into pieces. She believed that a better future waited for her and her family and With efforts from Nepalese Embassy, it was just a matter of time before she was luckily sent back to Nepal she would enjoy a life of prosperity. but not as the same sparkling Maiya Fortunate for her, that she got a rather as a silent and gloomy woman. decent job of a house maid at one of Police found her in a bad condition the houses in Kuwait. Being a home at the Tribhuvan International maker, administering household Airport and it was them who tasks was something she always brought her to Maiti Nepal. Maiya mastered. As a housemaid, she was was later reintegrated to her family very good at her work which majorly after providing her with series of revolved around cooking, cleaning, counseling and information on safe laundering and baby-sitting. migration. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org

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Case Study Enticed by her dreams eing recorded as one of the family and was head strong to chase major sources to traffi cking her dreams into an absolutely new Bof females, Rasuwa is a rural country. As per the requirement section of the country where poverty for the initial procedure, Sonam is vastly extensive. Sonam was somehow managed Rs 60,000 one among many other vulnerable, which she handed over to her agent. illiterate and naive females living in Her passports and other necessary this district. She never attended school documents were made and she or any informal learning centers was almost ready to be fl ying to thus making her detached with the Kurdistan. intellect part of the world. Her major Her bags were packed and along chores included grazing the cattle and with other women, Sonam took assisting the family either in farming off for Tribhuvan International or household routines. Airport. But things took a different "I never All of Sonam’s friends were getting course there. A man came to them married except her even she was 29 and told that they were to fl y off thought years old. She had started getting from India and not Kathmandu. frustrated on petty things and was These naïve women did not 12 my dreams too tired with the same old routine understand that they were actually would lead every day. She wanted to get out being sent illegally. They easily of her village into a bigger city and handed over their passports to my life to risk. taste the bliss of freedom. But with the man. However, right on time, I am happy to limited recourses her family had, the women were stopped at TIA leaving the village was nowhere by Maiti Nepal’s team and the be saved" in charts for her. She had seen few police personnel after detecting of her villagers who returned from the possibility that they could be foreign employment, at present, traffi cked. All the women including living a prosperous and a happy life. Sonam were sent to Maiti Nepal She wanted a life like that. for shelter and other services. Poverty was the major concern in Sonam was provided series of her family. She saw her neighbors counseling and other services at getting more affl uent after one Maiti Nepal and fi nally reintegrated of their family members adopted with her family. She understood foreign employment. Her old parents that she was cuckolded by the agent did not have any energy or zeal to go and wishes to punish him so that he to a new land and earn money. The would not get to cheat other women only capable member in her family like her. She has also very well was Sonam herself. Therefore, she understood the procedures for safe made her mind to go abroad. migration. Sonam admits that she was blindfolded with the charm of Sonam learnt from one of her friends foreign employment. Nevertheless, that Kurdistan holds the opportunity she is thankful that Maiti Nepal for thousands of females like her. opened her eyes at the right time. Through that friend, she came in She is eager to learn some income contact with an agent who would based skills so as to do something help her with the procedures to go for herself and her family without there. She got consent from her having to leave Nepal. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women

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Information and Vigilance at Nagdhunga (est. March 2001) On their way to various rural and urban destinations across Nepal, almost all migrants pass through Nagdhunga, a city 10 kilometres southwest of Kathmandu, and the only point of entry into and exit from the capital. Because of its centricity, Nagdhunga is a critical place for disseminating accurate information about traffi cking to the public. An eight-member surveillance team was established to help the police inspect vehicles and provide information 2014 Highlights on safe migration to women migrants.

 Preventing 818 children and women from falling scenario of human traffi cking and migration” for into the clutches of traffi ckers. 30 participants.

 Informing 20, 402 and women about safe migration.  Organised an orientation session on 10th July for 40 students of Chunidevi Higher Secondary  Reuniting 28 of 234 persons reported missing with School on human traffi cking, gender violence and their families. safe migration at Thankot.

 Checking 124,911 vehicles passing through the point.  As ways of raising the awareness amongst the 13  To mark the International Women’s Day, on 8th people, disseminated IEC materials (pamphlets March, Maiti Nepal at Nagdhunga conducted an and leafl ets) to the 22000 people travelling in the interaction programme at Thankot on “present buses and cars through the Information Booth.

Case Study Never realized to be vulnerable axmi Budathoki who was born in Dolakha back to Kathmandu, her mother gave her some district, Dadhakharka ward no 3 is a 17 expenditure for road which was snatched away by Lyears old. She has a father, mother, brother her brother saying that he needs it more than her. and an elder sister. Despite living in the family, Laxmi worked in a garment factory in Gongabu Laxmi is not treated like its member, but more where she met a man who said is working in the like a servant. She had to do all the household army. They started getting closer and after few chores from cleaning to cooking as well as months he proposed her to get married to him. looking after the cattle. No one, not even a single He asked her to come to Sarlahi where both member in her family ever assisted her. Though of them can get married. Without informing she worked so hard for day and night, all she got anyone, she left for Sarlahi. While she was in return was hatred and maltreatment. travelling, she was interrogated on the way by After SLC she lent Rs.500 from her friend and Maiti Nepal border guards. She was intercepted came to Kathmandu. She made some earning because she was a naïve young girl who was for herself in Kathmandu and with the money susceptible to traffi cking. she made, she went back to her village. Her Laxmi, said “I never realized I could be evil siblings took all her money not leaving vulnerable to traffi cking but now I knew the behind a single rupee for her. While her way horrors of being traffi cked” Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

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If preventive measures fail, Maiti Nepal sometimes police to intercept potential victims and apprehend manages to intercede in the throes of traffi cking criminals. or to free girls from sexual servitude and other forms of exploitations. Rescued girls are housed in Rescued girls have formed surveillance teams, nine transit homes, located in the border towns of which have been instrumental in helping police Kakarvitta, Bhairawaha, Pashupatinagar, Biratnagar, identify criminals and have served as a major Birgunj, Nepalgunj, Dhangadi, Mahendranagar deterrent to traffi cking. They also raise public and Mahespur where a little vigilance can have awareness and mobilise concerned citizens to fi ght signifi cant payoffs. against traffi cking. Requests for help to locate missing girls, rescue girls from brothels and provide Transit home provides safe shelter, as well as legal advice in cases of domestic violence and counselling, medical check-ups, non-formal polygamy number about six or seven every week in education classes to rescued girls, trace parents or each transit house. guardians and arrange reunions, identifi es and fi les criminal cases against traffi ckers and works with Transit home totals Interceptions achieved 2,904 Transit homes Migrants informed 1,34,718 Provide refuge and basic education and health services to victims Victims rescued 160 Arrange reunion and reintegration Missing/found 1,482/332 Instigate criminal proceedings Human traffi cking cases initiated 19 Aid police in surveillance Rape Cases instigated 20 www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

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 Intercepted two Hundred and fi fty(250) children  Filed 01 cases of human traffi cking in the district and women at the border, preventing them from court of Jhapa. Two accused are in police custody being traffi cked awaiting trial.

 Provided twenty one thousand nine hundred eighty  Filed 02 cases of rape in district police offi ce, (21,980) migrant girls and women crossing the Nepal- Jhapa; 02 accused are apprehended and the cases India border with information on safe migration. are awaiting justice from the court.

 Inspected 39,702(Thirty nine thousand seven  Provided short-term shelter for thirty nine (39) hundred and two) vehicles and cycle rickshaws children and women referred to the prevention crossing the border, providing occupants with home, by the VDC, other organizations and the information on safe migration. women’s cell.

 329 children and women who availed the services  Settled seven (07) reported cases of gender violence of the transit home were provided with the in favour of the survivors. Psychosocial Counselling.  To spread consciousness on human traffi cking the  31 were found out of 176 missing application. transit home organised door to door awareness programs in ward no 10, 12 of Mechinagar  Two Hundred forty six (246) children and women Municipality on 10th January and 11th February, in were reintegrated with their family members from Nakalbandha on 15th July, 28 October, 24 November the transit home. in Madanbasti on 6th August and in Jyamirgadi on 20th December reaching 415 people.  Rescued and repatriated 31 girls from exploitative situations from India; 15 girls were rescued from  On 6th January organised an interaction program in Siliguri, 01 from Raiganj, 03 girls from Kharibari and Bahundangi on women violence reaching 120 people. 06 from New Jalpaiguri, 01 girl from Jai goan state of West Bengal. 02 girls were rescued from Silchar,  On 10th January and 11th February transit home Assam. 01 girl from Delhi, 02 girls from Mumbai. organised door to door awareness programs in Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

ward no 10, 12 of Mechinagar Municipality on  On 19th June organised a program in Kakarvitta human traffi cking reaching 200 people. for 25 students on educating school students on importance of education and distributed bicycles  Conducted an awareness campaign in Bahundangi to 6 girl students. on 7th February reaching 500 people.  To make people more cautious on human  On 26th February and 23rd April organised traffi cking organised a rally and awareness coordination meeting with Kanchagunja Rescue program for 400 people of Kakarvitta, Bahundangi Centre, India on increasing the co-ordination for and Nakalbanda on 29th September, 2nd and 21st effective rescue of children and women from India. October during the time of Dashain when their Similarly, on 14th January held similar meeting focus is more on celebrating this festival. 16 with Impulse NGO network, Shillong India.  From 24th to 27th November collected more than  Organised a cross border workshop entitled "Role 3000 signatures in Kakarvitta to campaign against of police in apprehending traffi ckers" on 8 March. women violence. 100 people participated in this event. Kanchanjunga Rescue Centre; Child Welfare Committee West  On 2nd December organised an interaction Bengal; and police offi cials were main participants. program in Sunmai School, Santinagar on women violence reaching 200 people.  Held an interaction program with 48 people in Bahundagi on 25 April to gauge effectiveness of  Jointly celebrated activism against gender violence Maiti's awareness programs held in Bahundagi. in Birtamode on 10 December with an interaction program reaching 500 people.  Organised an inter school essay writing competition in Kakarvitta for 28 students on “student’s role in  More than 7000 IEC materials were disseminated preventing human traffi cking” on 7th May. throughout the Jhapa district. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Bhairahawa (est. July 1997) 17  Intercepted 259 children and women at the border,  Filed 04 cases of human traffi cking in district court preventing them from being traffi cked. of Rupandehi. 05 traffi ckers are in police custody and the cases are awaiting justice from the court.  22 were found out of 162 girls reported missing with their families.  Filed 05 cases of rape in district court of Rupandehi. 05 accused are in the police custody and the cases  17,078 children and women crossing the Nepal- are awaiting justice from the court. India border were provided information on safe migration, persuading some to return home because  580 girls and women who came to the District of the perceived risk. Administration Offi ce to apply for passports were provided information on safe migration.  Rescued and repatriated 26 children and women from Mumbai, Pune, Gorakhpur and Delhi, of  Conducted advocacy programs undertaking rallies, India. 04 girls were rescued from Mumbai and door to door programs, street plays from 22- 25 14 boys from Pune, state of Maharastra were January, 30 June and 24 November in Butuwal, repatriated; 08 girls were repatriated from Rohini, Sukumbasi tole, Kapilbastu, Labani, Dohali, Delhi; Pakadi, Shantichowk and Bagaha VDC reaching 4200 people.  Settled all 31 cases of violence in favour of the applicants.  Organised orientation program for 45 women on human traffi cking and its effect in Karahiya on 16  Inspected 8,198 vehicles and rickshaw crossing the July. border, providing occupants with information on safe migration.  Conducted orientation and interaction programs for 241 women on safe migration and human  307 children and women availed the services of traffi cking in 4, 5 and 6 wards of Padsari VDC the Transit Home were provided with Psychosocial on 28 January, 20, 21 February and in Basantapur Counselling. VDC on 1 August and 2 September.  Provided short term shelter to 48 children and  Undertook a sensitisation and conscientiousness women referred by women’s cell of police and session for 45 transport workers on "the role of other organisations. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

transport workers to prevent human traffi cking" on of human trafficking and gender violence, 6 February. organized elocution and essay reciting competition on 27th August for 208 students of  To involve the community against human 6 different schools. traffi cking organised two sessions of community participation on safeguarding women's rights on  Organised a rally on 05 September with 250 25 February reaching 70 youths and women. participants at Pokharbindi VDC to celebrate eight National Anti-Human Traffi cking Day.  Celebrated 104th International Women’s Day by organizing week-long programs. Orientation  Showed the tele- documentary "Chhori" to more programs on signifi cance and importance of than 1000 people in Belehiya, Sidharthnagar

18 Women’s Day was organized in ward 6, 7 of Padsari Municipality on 6 October. VDC and Madhuleya on 3th, 4th and 5th March.  Organised three days training from 26 -28 Nov Rallies, door to door programs and IEC materials to social studies teachers on role of education to were distributed on 2nd, 6th and 7th March in prevent traffi cking. Madhuleya, Marchawar and Manmateriya VDC reaching 661 people. On 8th and 9th March  Celebrated International day of elimination interaction programs and rallies were held in of violence against women on 10 December Siddhartha Municipality and Majhagawa VDC for in Sidharthnagar Municipality Bhairahawa, 73 people. Chilhiya, Karahiya, Madhuleya, Padsari VDC with a rally of 4,500 people, white ribbon  Mass education programs focusing on youth and campaign and through broadcasting awareness women to prevent human traffi cking were held in messages on Lumbini FM from10 to 25 December border areas- Pokharbhendi, Tikuligarh, Pajarkatti reaching 100,000 people. Maryadapur, Madhubaliya and Madbaliya on 1st April, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th Sep and in 18th November  Celebrated Children’s Day on 14 September by reaching 320 people. organising a speech competition on child rights in Sidharthnagar Municipality reaching 138 students.  On 16th April, 11th July and 16th July in-depth orientation sessions on safe migration and human  Offi cials from the Transit home and border police traffi cking were held in Butuwal Municipality, jointly have patrolled open border of Madhuahawa, Suryapura, and Gangoliya VDC reaching 284 Chanauli and Kalidaha VDC’s after it was reported people. that traffi ckers have started using these areas.

 Organised a seminar in Bhairawa on 21 June for  Organised three days training from 26th to 28th 30 police personnel to sensitise them on the role of Dec to 30 police offi cials on their roles at Nepal- police in controlling human traffi cking. India border to combat human traffi cking.

 On 1 July and 27 June, under the chairmanship of  To commemorate the 27th AIDS day the transit Chief District Offi cer, the transit home organised home organised a rally of 359 people in Sainamaina co-ordination meeting of 36 participants belonging Municipality to anti traffi cking network.  More than 15000 IEC materials were disseminated  To sensitize the students on various aspects throughout the Rupandehi district. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Birgunj, Parsa (est. 1997)

 Intercepted one hundred and thirty nine (139)  On 4th March and 24th December, orientation 19 children and women at the border, preventing them program on human traffi cking and safe migration from getting traffi cked. was organised for 85 armed police offi cials in Kalaiya, Bara.  Provided information on safe migration to Nineteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty Two (19, 952)  To commemorate 104th International Women’s children and women crossing the Nepal-India border. Day, the transit Home organised a rally of 450 people on 8th March in Birgunj followed by a  Registered Three (03) cases of human traffi cking in debate competition on women empowerment in the district court. Three (03) accused are in police Trijuda Higher Secondary School. custody, awaiting trial.  One day training was organised for 45 border  Rescued and repatriated Fifty Five (55) children police, armed police and immigration offi cials on and women from India. 46 boys were rescued from 21st May on strengthening vigilance and prevention Muzaffarpur, Bihar; 01 girl was rescued from Delhi; of human traffi cking at Nepal-India borders. 01 woman was rescued from Guwahati, Assam; 01 girl was rescued from Mumbai, Maharastra; and 06  Transit Home organised door-to-door program girls were rescued from Aadhpur. in Birgunj ward No 9 reaching out to almost 100 households and provided information on human  Traced and reunited Eighteen (18) out of Eighty traffi cking to 350 local people. Eight(88) girls reported missing by their families.  On 4th September, an orientation programme on  Settled thirteen (13) cases of gender violence in new dimension of traffi cking was organised for 85 favour of the survivors. students of Tara Chand Lower Secondary School.  Inspected fi ve thousand, one hundred and  Celebrated 8th National Anti Human Traffi cking nineteen(5,119) vehicles crossing the border, providing day on 5 September with a rally of 400 people in occupants with information on safe migration. Birgunj.  Provided short term shelter for forty eight (48)  Celebrated 16 days of activism against gender children and women referred to the transit home violence in Birgunj on 25 November by organising by the VDCs, other organizations and the women's a rally of 250 people. cell of police. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

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 Intercepted 188 girls/women at the border, and Indrapur VDCs on 13th April 2014. preventing them from being traffi cked.  An interaction programme was held in Biratnagar  Provided 1,158 migrant girls and women crossing on 6th April 2014 with 12 police personnel the Nepal-India border with information on safe to discuss the changing dimension of human migration. traffi cking and our roles to minimize it

 Reunited 8 of the 59 girls/women reported missing,  To sensitize the students on various aspects of with their families. human traffi cking and gender violence, organized essay writing competition on 9th May for 28  Rescued and repatriated three (03) children and students of 7 different schools. women from India and Bangladesh. 2 girls were rescued from New Delhi of India; 01 woman was  Organised a sensitisation workshop on human rescued from Barisal, Dhaka of Bangladesh. traffi cking and gender violence for 60 students of two schools of Biratnagar on 10th June 2014.  Resolved all 4 cases of domestic violence reported.  On 11th June, a sensitisation programme  Filed 08 cases of rape in the District Police Offi ce, was organised for 30 armed police personnel Morang; 06 accused are apprehended and the two in Biratnagar. They were provided specifi c are still at large. instructions on their roles at Nepal-India border to  Inspected 5,308 vehicles crossing the border, combat human traffi cking. providing occupants with information on safe  Celebrated 8th National Anti-traffi cking day on 5th migration. September in Biratnagar by organising a door-door  Organized awareness campaign on 4-5 February programme on human traffi cking reaching 400 reaching 900 people of Sundarpur and Indrapur households and with a rally of 600 people. VDCs of Morang districts.  To mark 16 days of activism against Gender  To mark 104th International Women’s Day on 8th Violence, transit home organised a signature March organised a rally of 300 people in Biratnagar. campaign on 25th November at Jogbani, the bordering area between Nepal and India. 120  To sensitize the community on human traffi cking, conducted a workshop for 25 people of Sundarpur people agreed and endorsed the campaign. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Case Study Sapana was saved from entering into the Lion’s den

hese days a lot of The three boys travelling drug addicts are with her were sent to the Tseen captivating police station for their wrong innocent girls in the name intention towards guiltless of employment opportunity Sapana. One of them was and later selling them off to found to be under the infl uence India. Since they incessantly of drugs, while the other was require money for the use of an escaped convict of theft. drugs, traffi cking of females has become an easier resort Sapana was brought to to them. This is also a new the transit home and her trend that has been broadly guardian back in Dhading “I commit to be observed. This case study is was informed about her. Not much careful in the example of such trend of only she was counseled on traffi cking. the hazards of traffi cking and future as well as unsafe migration but was also assure to inform Sapana Pariyar was suggested to continue her 21 travelling in a rickshaw with studies. She is an innocent my friends and three boys. She was told young female who needs a villagers about that she was being taken to proper supervision. After a few Itahari. 18 years old Sapana, days of her stay in the Home, the issues of originally from Dhading had she was reunited with her traffi cking. I am no clue that the rickshaw was parents. in fact proceeding towards thankful that I Jogbani and Itahari was in This particular incident has have been saved a totally reverse direction. helped Sapana learn a big At the border area, this lesson and Sapana says “I from entering rickshaw which carried commit to be much careful into a Lion’s Sapana was halted by Border in future as well as assure Surveillance to inform my friends and Den” villagers about the issues of Monitors of Maiti Nepal. traffi cking. I am thankful that I On interrogation, it did not have been saved from entering take the monitors long to into a Lion’s Den” identify that Sapana was a potential victim of traffi cking or possibly other kind of exploitation. She was immediately sent to the transit home for further query and clarifi cation. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

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 Intercepted 447 (Four hundred forty seven) border, providing occupants with information on children and women at the border, preventing them safe migration. from being traffi cked.  14,257 (Fourteen thousand two hundred and fi fty  469 (Four hundred sixty nine) children and women seven) migrants were provided information on safe were reintegrated with their families. migration at Nepal-India border.

 390 (Three hundred ninety) girls and women  Reunited Thirty three (33) out of two hundred and realized that their journey to India was risky and sixty two (262) girls reported missing with their they themselves returned back home directly from families. the border.  Settled 23 out of 27 reported cases of gender  Rescued and repatriated twenty six (26) children violence in favour of survivors. and women from India, Syria and Kuwait. 03 boys  Transit Home fi led 06 (six) cases of Human from Ananda Vihar, 01 girl from Loni Road, 01 Traffi cking in the District Court of Banke. 04 girl from Raghubir Nagar, 01 girl from Rohini, accused are in police custody awaiting trial and 03 Delhi were rescued; 01 girl from Kotanagar, Kota, accused are absconding. Rajasthan; 03 women from Kotkhai, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh; 01 girl from Rodu, Himachal  02 (Two) cases of rape were fi led; 02 accused are in Pradesh; 01 girl from Patoli, Jammu; 01 girl police custody awaiting justice. from Gandhipur, Gujarat; 02 girls from Nanpara,  Celebrated 104th International Women’s Day by Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh; 05 boys from Kutchery organizing week long programs: organised a rally road, Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh; 01 girl from of 350 people in Nepalgunj 8 March, showcased Khamanchowk karma, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh; a street drama on 9 March in Manikapur VDC 01 boy from Khamchanchowk, Kanpur, Uttar reaching 340 people, conducted orientation Pradesh; 02 women from Kuwait and 02 women program on 10 March in Bankatawa VDC and on from Habobi Dhamaskas, Damascus, Syria were 11 March in Rajhena VDC reaching 92 people. rescued.  Transit home conducted three days of residential  Inspected 3,769 (Three thousand Seven hundred training for 45 youths on combating human and sixty nine) vehicles and rickshaws crossing the traffi cking from 12-14 May. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

 In order to develop a strong cross border co- 8th National Anti-traffi cking day. Awareness ordination and networking between Nepal, and messages were delivered through banners and India organised a cross border workshop in IEC Materials reaching 8,000 people; orientation Nepalgunj from 22-23 May, participated by 88 programs were organised on 3 and 4 September people. in Rajhena and Chisapani VDC for 62 people; showcased a street drama in Kohalpur on 6 Sep  Organised an interaction program of anti traffi cking reaching 650 people and organised a rally of 600 district committee on 6 June 2014 to plan activities people in Nepalgunj on 5 September. that will reduce cases of human traffi cking in Banke district.  Celebrated Children’s Day on 14 September by organising a rally of 850 people in Nepalgunj.  On 10, 16, 19, 20, 29 June, 30 July, 13 August,

30 October orientation programs on anti human  Celebrated Universal Children's Day on 20 23 traffi cking initiatives were conducted in Odharapur, November with a rally of 500 people in Nepalgunj. Kachanapur, Mahadhevpuri, Bageshowri Rajhena  Celebrated 16 days of activism against gender and Baijapur VDC for 270 youths. violence by organizing week long programs;  Celebrated International Youth Day on 11-12 awareness massages were delivered via banners, August in Bankatuwa VDC and Nepalgunj by posters, pamphlets reaching 5,000 people; organising interaction programs on “Youth, foreign organised a candle lighting ceremony for 150 employment and human traffi cking” reaching 75 people on 25 November and a rally of 500 people people. in Nepalgunj on 10 December .

 On the occasion of Teej, (a Hindu festival) transit  Transit home conducted three days of residential home organized a song and dance program on 26 training for 26 students on combating human August in Chisapani for 230 people and organized a traffi cking from 26-28 December. Radio program on 27 August in Kohalpur reaching  Transit home conducted an interaction program 9,000 people with human traffi cking as its theme. with 36 Judges and Lawyers to identify ways  A week-long activity were organised to celebrate to strengthen laws on human traffi cking on 29 December.

 To enlighten journalists about the work done by the transit home in 2014, a press conference was organised for 32 journalists on 31st December

 More than 18,000 IEC materials on domestic violence, unsafe migration and human traffi cking were disseminated to the locals throughout the district. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

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 Intercepted 456 girls at the border, preventing them  Conducted cross border workshops entitled from being traffi cked. “Collaborative approach to minimize human traffi cking” on 25th April and 5th May. 126 people  Provided 846 girls/women crossing the Nepal- from India and Nepal participated in this event and India border with information on safe migration. developed linkages and networks to fi ght this crime  Reunited 14 of the 33 girls reported missing, with jointly at Pashupatinagar. their families.  Transit Home organised 5 days Training of Trainers  Rescued and repatriated 1 woman exposed to abuse (ToT) to 14 women community safety-net members and exploitation from Sikkim of India. of Gorkhe, Sakehjung, Jogmai, Shantipur, Fikkal, Kanyam, Pashupatinagar VDCs of Ilam district  01 case of Human Traffi cking had been fi led in the district court of Ilam and justice prevailed for the from 22- 26 May 2014 in Pashupatinagar. victim.  Organised a three days training at Pashupatinagar from 20-22 July on safe migration for 42 girls and  Resolved all 25 cases of domestic violence reported. women belonging to 5 VDCs of Ilam district.  Conducted an interaction program in Pashupatinagar  Inspected 19,359 vehicles crossing the border, providing occupants with information on safe on 20th August with 20 police personnel and migration. political leaders to discuss strengthening the border monitoring to prevent human traffi cking.  Celebrated 104th International Women’s Day by organising an interaction programme on women’s  To impart knowledge to women in computer skills, rights and a rally of 140 people at Pashupatinagar transit home provided three months computer training on 8th March. to 40 girls/women of Fikkal, Kanyam, Samalbung, Panchakanya and Barbote VDC’s of Ilam district in  To empower the members of community safety- four groups from 1st January – 30th December 2014. net belonging to Shantipur, Panchakanya and Laxmipur VDCs of Ilam district, 5 days training  Celebrated 8th National Anti-traffi cking day by on mushroom farming was organized from 31st organizing a workshop for 80 people on human March to 4th April at Shantipur VDC. traffi cking at Fikkal VDC on 4th September. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

 To mark 16 days of activism against Gender Venue Date Participants Violence” collected 1200 signatures by organising Pashupatinagar VDC 18th March 2014 25 Police and custom officials a signature campaign in Pashupatinagar and Ilam municipality from 25th November to 10th Fikkal VDC 20th March 2014 27 Police and custom officials December. Gorkhe VDC 11th March 2014 50 community people Jogmai VDC 14th March 2014 50 community people  Conducted series of awareness and orientation programs to sensitise people on human traffi cking Gorkhe VDC 13th March 2014 70 students of classes 9 & 10 and issues concerning children and women. Jogmai VDC 15th March 2014 85 students of classes 9 & 10

Case Study Nearly trafficked through Social networking site.

ifteen year old Manita They left their home on 30th of young boys and girls Tamang Born to a March and reached Ilam where heading towards the border Fpeasant’s family from the boys were waiting for their and suspected the case. On a rural area of Paanchthar, arrival. As soon as they got interrogation with the boys Manita was studying in class 9 down from the bus in Ilam, and girls separately, the when she was carried away by the boys paid off their bus team found their answers 25 the glittering world of social fare and reserved a taxi until unmatched. Sooner, the networking, facebook. It had Pashupatinagar. team found out that the only been some months since boys had told the girls to lie Manita started using facebook about their whereabouts and as a means of entertainment. While the girls were escape from the border. On handed over to their contacting the parents of the It was during a village fair that parents the next girls, they requested Maiti Manita got in touch with Suman Nepal to intercept them. Rawat from Jhapa district of day after providing Nepal and Devshankar Dewan information on human While the girls were handed from Mirik of India. They over to their parents the became friends and exchanged traffi cking, the boys next day after providing their phone numbers and then were handed over to information on human got connected in facebook. the police who were traffi cking, the boys were Thereafter, Manita introduced handed over to the police her three school friends to the released after proper who were released after group. They started talking to interrogation and proper interrogation and each other frequently. Nearly information. information. after a month, the boys invited the girls for a visit to Darjeeling After some hours they After receiving information, in India. reached Pashupatinagar. At the girls realized being border in Pashupatinagar, vulnerable to traffi cking or Manita along with three of the Border Surveillance other forms of exploitation and her friends started off their Staffs of Maiti Nepal was then thanked Maiti Nepal for journey telling their parents on their duty checking the saving their lives. They knew that they are visiting their vehicles passing through. the risk of traffi cking through friend’s place in Ilam. The team noticed a group social networking. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

Dhangadhi, Kailali (est. September 2001) 26 2 6

 Prevented 96 children and women from getting  Filed 01 case of rape in the district court of traffi cked by intercepting them at the border. Kailali.

 Reintegrated 76 girls/women with their families;  On 12th January an orientation program on human some of them were transferred to Maiti’s traffi cking was organised for 14 students of rehabilitation homes at Kathmandu and Sunsari to students of Shree Janakalyan Higher Secondary train them on income generating. School, Jugeda.

 52 girls/women realized that their journey to India  On 13th January organized a meeting of 20 was risky and they themselves returned home districts anti traffi cking agencies in Dhangadhi to directly from the border. discuss effective border inspection.

 Provided 2,652 children and women crossing  Celebrated 104th International Women’s Day by the Nepal-India border with information on safe organizing a strong rally of 465 persons in Traffi c migration. Chowk on 8th March.

 Settled 23 of the 27 reported cases of gender  Celebrated 8th national anti-traffi cking day on 5th violence in favour of applicants. September by organizing a rally of 620 people in Dhangadhi.  Rescued 05 girls from India; 03 girls from New Delhi 02 girls from Janta Bazaar Chhapra district  From 30-31st October conducted orientation of Bihar. sessions for 30 youths and students from Phulbari, Hasuliya and Urma VDCs.  Found 107 of 138 girls who were reported missing and reunited them with their families.  Celebrated 16 days of activism against gender violence in Dhangadi on 25 November with a  Inspected 1,485 vehicles/rickshaws crossing the rally of 440 persons. border, providing occupants with information on safe migration.  116 members of Exertion Committee to Combat Traffi cking in Person (ECTTIP) have been  Filed 02 cases of human traffi cking; one accused carrying out programs addressing children and is in police custody awaiting trial. women. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

 Aired 44 episodes of FM programs through the transit home in 2014, a press conference Dinesh FM 93.8 Megahertz and Paschim today was organised on 31 December for 18 media FM 88.8 Megahertz Dhangadhi, Kailali making personnel. more than 160,000 people aware of human  Transit home conducted regular awareness traffi cking and safe foreign employment. programs in Kailali district and distributed more  To enlighten journalists on work done by than 8,500 IEC materials throughout the district.

Case Study Even a single bluff call made Nirmala near to getting trafficked; Maiti Nepal saved her from that situation

irmala is 18 years trouble to her. As she had Gaurifanta Border he told old. She is from Doti already started to like him her that he will go fi rst in NBeltar. Nirmala was she hurriedly accepted his Rickshaw to cross border. happy with her family of eight proposal. members. She studied up to He went fi rst and taught grade eight and left school On 2071 Bhadra 28 he told her to say that she is going her that they are going to visit to India to buy things for after that. Her father’s name 7 is Dal Bahadur and Mother’s Atariya and he called her herself. While she was 27 2 name is Shanti. crossing border Maiti Nepal staff stopped her and asked After leaving her school, she Maiti Nepal and her where she was going. started to help her families in police did not trust Hearing their question she farm. Her work was to collect told as what was taught to timber for cattle and to collect her and they bought her. fi rewood. She was happy with her friends and family. her to ask some Maiti Nepal and police did questions in the not trust her and they bought One day she got a call from her to ask some questions in unknown number. It was a boy offi ce. After giving the offi ce. After giving her that called her. After that he counseling she told what what started to call her day by day her counseling she the truth was and she also told and she also started to talk to told what what the them that the boy is with her. him. At fi rst she told that she does not know him and she truth was and she After getting counseling about does not talk with unknown also told them that girls traffi cking she decided to person but when he started to fi ght against girls traffi cking call her day by day she also the boy is with her. and she went home with her started to like him and she father Dal Bahadur Sharki. talked with him. there. She came there happily Now she is in her maternal One day the boy told her that and she did not inform her home and she is continuing he is in love with her and he parents. After visiting Atariya her study and she is also cannot live without her. He he told her that they are also fi ghting for the right of women also lured her saying that going to visit India. and against girls traffi cking he will take her to India and by taking part in awareness They were going to India program. he will not give any kind of from Gaurifanta Border. In Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

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 Intercepted 83 children and women at the border, program on human traffi cking were organised for preventing them from being traffi cked. 115 students of International Public Secondary School, Mahendranagar.  Provided 4,472 migrant girls and women crossing the Nepal-India border with information on safe  Celebrated 104th International Women’s day on migration. 8 March with a motorbike rally of 250 people and human rally of 500 people in Mahendranagar  Rescued and repatriated 05 girls from India. 02 bazaar. girls were rescued from Dehradun Uttarakhand; 02 girls from Banglore, Karnataka and 01 from  With the objective of alerting people on human Noida in Uttar Pradesh. traffi cking, a strong rally of 3,100 people was organised in Mahendranagar bazaar on 8th May.  A 14 year old girl was rescued from exploitative situations from Bhimdatta, Kanchanpur.  On 10th July, 15th July and 6th August organised orientation programs on human traffi cking for 132  Inspected 689 vehicles/rickshaws crossing the students of Milestone Public School, International border, providing occupants with information on Public School and Yas Public School. safe migration.  Organized an interaction program on prevention  Reunited 11 of the 227 children and women of human traffi cking on 3 September for 49 reported missing with their families. participants belonging to women’s group,  Resolved 45 of the 49 cases of gender violence in Community Female Health Volunteers and child favour of the survivor. club from Daiji VDC. Interaction program were also held on 8 and 9 December in Chandani and  Initiated court proceedings against 02 cases of human traffi cking of a 21 year old girl from Punarbas VDCs for 67 local agencies on their role Baitadi and another 14 years old girl from in preventing human traffi cking. Kanchanpur, one accused in the police custody  Celebrated 16 days of activism against gender and both the cases are under trial. violence in Mahendranagar on 25 November with a rally of 300 people.  On 5th, 8th January and 12th February orientation www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

 Conducted sensitisation program for 25 transport progresses of Transit home Kanchanpur. workers on anti human traffi cking initiatives in  Broadcasted a radio program from Nagarik Mahendranagar on 4th December. FM 96.2 Mega Hertz on the occasion of eighth  Organized an interaction program in national anti-traffi cking day reaching 20,000. Mahendranagar on 19th December for 40 police  Transit home conducted regular awareness offi cials on joint efforts in preventing cross border programmes in Kanchanpur District and traffi cking. distributed more than 6,000 IEC materials  Organized media interaction on 27th December throughout the district. with 25 media personnel to share annual

Girl from Mid-Western saved in Case Study Far-Western region from getting trafficked

ita Nepali, who was going for four years. Her owner was to India to earn money for nice to her but his children used Sher family is from Surkhet to give her physical and mental district. Though very small torture. They used to beat her. ( only 12 years old) she is still 29 looking after home. she decided She tolerated their misbehavior to earn money for her family. It for many years but one day was not possible for her to earn they beat her so badly that she She tolerated money from Nepal as she was became unable to tolerate and small and uneducated. she left home. and ran away their misbehavior from there. She thought that for many years Her father died when she was in in India she will get better job grade three. She and her family than this. So she decided to go but one day they were happy when her father to India for work. On her way beat her so badly was alive. After the death of her there, Maiti Nepal caught her father there was no one to earn and brought her to Maiti Nepal. that she became money. Source of income was not there. She was living with When asked where she was unable to tolerate her mother but they were so going she told us that she is and she left home. poor that there was no food for going to earn money for her them from morning and evening. mother. Maiti Nepal gave her and ran away from counseling about girls traffi cking Seeing that condition she left her and other incidents. there. home, and came to Kanchanpur for housemaid work. She started She was not ready to live in to work there from morning to Maiti Nepal so Maiti Nepal evening in her small age. It was Kanchanpur called her mother the age of learning new things, to take her but mother unable to playing with friends but in her walk Maiti Nepal’s staff sent her luck that was not there. Her with Oma Nepali. Sita’s family house owner name was Sambhu members were very thankful to Nepali and she worked there Maiti Nepal. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

30 Maheshpur

 Informed 1852 girls /women on safe migration  Organized an interaction program on human procedures. trafficking on 7 March for 300 people,

 Traced and reunited 12 girls with their families  To mark 103rd International Women's Day on 8th out of the 20 reported missing cases. March organized district level interaction program by conducting an awareness song competition in  Intercepted 64 children and women at the border, presence of 300 people. preventing them from being traffi cked and reuniting with their families.  Celebrated Maiti Nepal’s anniversary on 7th April through distribution of IEC materials.  Inspected 1,303 cycle rickshaws/vehicles crossing the border, providing occupants with information  More than 1900 IEC materials disseminated by on safe migration. the transit home

 Celebrated Anti- Traffi cking day on 5 September by organising a student orientation program for 113 students. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Information and Counselling centre, Liping, Sindhupalchowk (est. December 2011)

 Intercepted 50 children and women at the border, on 28th January at Tatopani-9, Bokchen, more preventing them from being traffi cked. discussion and documentary showing programs

were undertaken in Gaati on 18th May and 29th 31  60 girls/women realized that their journey to Khasa July reaching 58 people. was risky and they themselves returned back home directly from the border.  On 15th Feb, 17th June and 6th Sep, door-to-door programs were organised in Marming, Phulpingkatti  41 girls and women were reintegrated with and Chaukidada. The door-to-door program reached their families; 9 girls were transferred to Maiti's out to almost 89 households and provided information rehabilitation home in Kathmandu for further to 566 people. counselling and training.  Provided information to 41 students and teachers  02 girls were liberated from sexual and labour slavery from Marming Lower Secondary School on human from Khasa, China. traffi cking and its consequences on 25th February.  1,262 migrants were provided information on safe  Celebrated 104th International Women’s day on 8th migration and safe employment at Nepal-China March by organising an orientation program for 66 border. people on women's rights in Phulpingkatti- 7 and  65 girls/women were provided information on safety with an interaction program for 95 people on women precautions before crossing Nepal-China border to rights and gender violence in Phulpingkatti-6. Khasa from Daskilo, which is a secret outlet to Khasa  Organized an interaction program on human from Tatopani. 6 girls at risk of getting traffi cked traffi cking for 28 women on 27th April in Gaati-3, were intercepted from Das Kilo. Sigarche.  Reunited 02 of the 03 children and women reported  On 28th May, 9th July, 16th October and 12th missing with their families. December orientation sessions on human traffi cking  Filed a case of rape of 14 years old girl, the accused were organised in Shree Thaapi Narayan School, is absconding. Phulpingkatti, Daskilo, Palati and Shree Bhimsen Lower Secondary School, Marming reaching 157  Settled 16 cases of the 17 reported cases of gender violence in favour of survivors. people.  Celebrated eighth national anti traffi cking day on  Organized a discussion program on “Prevention of human traffi cking” for 17 community people 5th September by organising a rally of 162 people in Tatopani-3, Liping. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

 Conducted a quiz competition on “human traffi cking” 11 news/articles regarding human traffi cking and for 70 students of Thapi Narayan Lower Secondary Nepali girl’s unsafe labour migration to Khasa. School, Phulpingkatti on 13th November.  More than 9,000 IEC materials were disseminated  In 2014, 03 national and 03 local print media covered throughout the district.

Case Study Maiti Nepal saved Babita from getting trafficked

abita is 24 years old love and got married. She was Hearing this she Babita told from Sarlahi district who happy with him for some years her that she will go with her as Bstudied upto grade 2. She and she gave birth to the baby soon as possible as she was not has one elder brother, two elder boy name Dipesh who is fi ve happy in Nepal with that work. sisters and three younger sisters years old now. After that she talked with her as siblings. She went to Dubai parents and they also agreed to and worked there as waiter for She does not know why but send her. One day Sanju called two months. Her salary was her husband started to bring her and told her that she can go Nepali Rs50000 per month. other girls in his room and he with the owner of Khasa and she Work was diffi cult and it was started to ignore her. He also will come later on. Hearing her not good that good so she left started to beat her. Looking at Babita did not said anything to 32 that job and came back to Nepal his activities she was irritated her and she became ready to go (She did not mention why that with him and she left him. with that owner. They reached work was not good for her). She also bought her son to her to the Nepal-China border and maternal home. In maternal there her owner told her that When she was small she studied home there was nothing to she will fi rst as there were staff up to grade two and left to do so she started to work in of Maiti Nepal and police for study due to bad company. She Dohori Sajh as a waiter. She check. After that her owner went used to study in Shree Ishwari worked there for one and half and she also took her luggage Primary School which is in year and was continuing her and bags. Swayambhu in Kathmandu. Her work. Her salary was Rs 4000 friends told her that education per month. After that Babita went to stamp is not so important in life so she (immigration) in border and that left to go to school as she was During the working time she time Maiti Nepal and police small and was unable to know met one girl who was customer interrogated her. She said all the what's wrong and what's right. of that hotel whose name was truth without lying anything to Sanju Karki. She used to come them. Hearing her police and After leaving her school she there for some time. One day Maiti Nepal gave her counseling started to roam here and there she while she was serving food about girls traffi cking and sent with friends for some years. for her at that time she called her to Maiti Nepal Gaushala When she became little big her and asked her if she was Kathmandu for her protection. she started to help her parents interested to go Khasa with her. in household work. She was Now she is in Maiti Nepal. She spending her time by helping From that day she started to is happy as she was intercepted her parents. talk with Babita daily. She told at the right time. After getting her that she will provide job in counseling she thinks that she One day when she was going Khasa like what she is doing could have been sold to brothel. to visit a place (she does not here in Nepal. She also lured While she stayed in Maiti Nepal know the name) she met one her saying that salary is Rs she was provided legal services, boy and they started to talk. 18000 per month and work is psychosocial counseling and After some months they felt in very easy. health services. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Transit Homes Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Information and counselling centre Thori, Parsa (est. August 2013)

 Prevented 48 children and women from getting for 143 students of Rastriya Lower Secondary

traffi cked by intercepting them at the border. School Thori and Nepal Rastriya Higher Secondary 33 School, Nirmalbasti on 4th May and 3rd Sep.  Provided 2,938 migrant girls and women crossing the Nepal-India border with information on safe  Conducted door-to-door campaign reaching 264 migration. people on 2nd September and 7th November at Ayodhyaapuri and Badarjhula.  Found 02 of 16 girls who were reported missing and reunited them with their families.  On the occasion of eighth national anti traffi cking day, organised a rally of 73 people in Thori Nepal-  Solved all 15 cases of gender violence in favour of India border on 5th September. the survivors.  Organized a door-to-door campaign at Ayodhyapuri  Rescued 02 fourteen years old girls from Jamuniya, VDC of Chitwan reaching 200 people. Paschim Champaran, in Bihar, India.  Conducted orientation session on human traffi cking  Celebrated 104th International Women’s day on and child rights for 75 students of Rastriya Lower 8th March by organising a workshop on preventing Secondary School Nirmalbasti on 5th December. cross border traffi cking from Thori involving 121 representatives of various organisations.  More than 3,219 IEC materials disseminated by the transit home.  Conducted orientation session on human traffi cking Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Transit Homes dfOtL g ]kfn]

Case Study Hari Maya is well informed about safe migration Mana Maya learnt on how to am Hari Maya Pariyar a 15 years old. I belong to a village in Nawalparasi district, Gaidakot. My behave well with family members Ifamily condition is very poor. We don't have enough an Maya,18 was the youngest land to cultivate food. We have to work in others’ farm among four daughters of her from early morning till late night. My parents have six Mfamily. When all her sisters got daughters and it is very diffi cult for my them to provide married she was alone in her home. She education for all. started to help her parents in the morning and evening and during the day she used to I studied up to grade fi ve but after that my parents were go school. not able to continue my education so left my studies after that. I started to help my parents in their work. She has one friend in her school. His name Since I was the eldest daughter of my family, it was my was Bipin B.Ka. He was with her since duty to look after my sisters. her childhood. Bipin was staying in his sister's home for the education. When they A villager named Rohit used to work in India, Keradun reached ninth grade they both fell in love. from many years. One day he came back to village to They stopped to go school after that. They meet his family and relatives. When my father knew used to bunk school go to other places that Rohit is in village he went to meet him. Rohit told 34 where they can spend a quality time with my father that since he had so many daughters he can eachother. send a few to India to work for a friend of his. He also said that his friend is looking for a girl to get married. One day she and Bipin planned to get married. After that they went to a My father agreed to this. When my father agreed to temple nearby and got married there send me with him he came to talk with me. He told without taking permission from their me that in India there is one boy and he wants to get family. After the marriage, they phoned married with Nepali girl who is like me. He also told their parents and told everything to me that his friend is very nice with him and he is them. working with him from many years. Hearing him I became very happy and excited to go India. He also When her parents knew that she got lured me saying many things. married with that boy they went to his home and brought her back home. But After few days they were going to India. Before going, she did not stay there for long. She came Rohit told her that he will call his friend in a Temple to Kathmandu to live with her relatives. in India. He also told my father that he does not need When she was in Kathmandu she heard to pay any amount for the marriage. Hearing him my that her husband is in New Delhi India. father became very happy and sent me with him. While she was going to India to meet her We were going to India along with my father on husband, 2069/9/23 Thori border police 2070/11/14 through Parsa. We stayed in Parsa village caught her. for two nights. During that time village social worker She got counseling from Maiti Nepal asked us where we were going. My father told them and she went home to continue her everything what was true. education. She knew that she was doing After hearing my father,they told us about girl traffi cking wrong. She wants to thank counselor and its new forms. At fi rst my father did not believe it but from Maiti Nepal for giving her new later he thought that Rohit could be a traffi cker. life. She wants to apologize to her family for all the trouble she put them Village social worker also sent police with us thinking that through. Rohit might give us some trouble on the way to home. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Rehabilitation Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Rehabilitation Home

Rescued girls and women fi nd ey activities of the Rehabilitation and Crisis 35 Home is to provide shelter; arrange for it diffi cult to adjust to ordinary Knon-formal as well as formal education; life: they are emotionally and impart vocational, income generating and life even physically scarred from skills; facilitate medical check-ups and treatment; conduct counselling and psychotherapy sessions; their experience; they lack fi le cases against accused criminals; identify parents the self-esteem, education and encourage the residents to set up their own enterprises and become self-reliant. Rehabilitation and skills they need to live home also provides jobs to residents. independently, and are often Residents of the home form a heterogeneous mix. rejected by society. To ease They include abandoned/lost children, survivors their reintegration into the of domestic violence and rape, street children and traffi cked children and women. The Rehabilitation community, Maiti Nepal runs and Crisis Home is fi rst and foremost a safe home two rehabilitation homes, one to those who are in immediate need, and those who have been physically and/or psychologically in Kathmandu and one in scarred. This Home has been able to support the Itahari, Sunsari District physical, psychological, and educational needs of its members and continues to provide safe Rehabilitation and crisis homes temporary shelter during their stay. A sanctuary for the victimised As of December 2014, 304 children and women were in the Rehabilitation Home and received Provides physical and psychological care direct benefi ts from Maiti Nepal. Shelter 01 (Girls section) had 73 girls/women, and Shelter 02 Teaches the skills needed for independent living housed 231 children respectively. Adolescent girls Initiates criminal proceedings reside in Shelter 01, and the younger children live in Shelter 02. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Rehabilitation dfOtL g ]kfn]

From January – December 2014, there were 245 new In total, out of 73 girls/women in the centre arrivals. 228 were girls/women and 17 were children. Out of 228 girls/ women 23 were traffi cked and rescued from various destinations 41 were destitute women and survivors of gender violence 118 were intercepted girls and women 04 were raped or sexually abused 06 are working as housekeeping and service 42 were rescued from exploitative conditions staff at the Kathmandu Guest House, from restaurants Kathmandu 03 are working as housekeeping staff at Park Village Resort, Kathmandu In 23 cases of trafficking 04 are working at Bakery department of Bakes and Cafe, Kathmandu 19 were rescued from various traffi cked destinations in India namely, Pune, Meerut, 07 are working as care takers in the baby room Mumbai, New Delhi, Assam and Kolkata. of the Children’s Protection Centre 36 03 were rescued from Gulf countries namely: 04 are working as offi ce helpers at Maiti Kuwait, Oman. Nepal, Kathmandu 01 was rescued from Bangladesh. 04 are working as clinic helpers at Maiti Nepal, Kathmandu 05 are working as kitchen helpers at Maiti Of the above Nepal, Kathmandu 17 were re-integrated with their families. 03 are working as gardeners at Maiti Nepal, Kathmandu 03 have been provided job at Maiti Nepal's head offi ce in Kathmandu. 02 are working as canteen helpers at Maiti Nepal, Kathmandu 01 is in Maiti's rehabilitation home in Kathmandu. 03 are working as school helpers at Teresa Academy, run by Maiti Nepal, Kathmandu 02 have been shifted to the Child Protection Centre as they wanted to receive formal 06 are working as waitress at Baisali education. hotel, Hotel Pacifi c and Aryal Hotel in Kathmandu 02 are working at Himalaya Climate at In 118 cases of interception Tailoring Department, Kathmandu 112 were re-integrated with their families 03 are working as beautician at Nil David Beauty Salon, Kathmandu. 01 has been shifted to the child protection centre as she wanted to receive formal 16 are attending classes on income generating education. skills, sewing, knitting and life skills in Maiti rehabilitation home, Kathmandu, 01 is working at Himalayan Beans, Cafe, Kathmandu 05 are attending Maiti Nepal’s workshop wherein women learn income generating 02 are working at Bakes and Cakes Cafe, skills like bead making. Kathmandu. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Rehabilitation Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

02 are in Maiti's rehabilitation centre, Kathmandu As of December 2014, 231 children received direct undergoing income generation training benefi ts from Maiti Nepal in form of shelter, medical assistance, education, food and clothing. They developed In 41 cases of domestic violence and destitution toward a brighter future in the following ways: 183 Children are attending schools 36 were re-integrated with their families 04 are attending colleges 02 are in Maiti's rehabilitation home in Kathmandu 07 Children are infants undergoing income generation training 05 Children were re-integrated with their families 01 is working at Bakes and Cakes Cafe, Kathmandu. 04 Children are with their mothers and are residing in the Women’s Rehabilitation Home 02 are in Maiti Nepal's clinic undergoing treatment. 01 Child is in a hostel for blind children 01 is studying bachelors of nursing in India In 04 cases of rape 03 are doing MBBS at Lumbini Medical College, Palpa 02 were re-integrated with their families 23 are attending higher secondary level schools.

01 is working at Maiti Nepal head offi ce as a From January - December 2014, 17 children were kitchen helper. rescued and provided shelter. 01 was shifted to the Child Protection Centre as they wanted to receive formal education. Out of 17 children 37 In 42 cases of restaurant workers 06 Children were re-integrated with their family members. 33 were re-integrated with their families 11 Children are in the Child Protection Centre, 03 are in Maiti's rehabilitation home undergoing Kathmandu, Nepal and attending formal training education. 05 have been shifted to the child protection centre as they wanted to receive formal education. Of those 11 children in Child Protection Centre 01 is in Maiti Nepal's clinic undergoing treatment. Statistical data of trafficking survivors Name of City and Country from Number of Trafficked Girls where girls were rescued Rescued Delhi, India 11 Mumbai, Maharastra, India 05 Pune, India 01 Nagaland, India 01 Assam, India 01 06 Children are attending Teresa Academy a Oman 01 school established by Maiti Nepal Kuwait 02 04 Children are infants and residing at baby room of the child protection centre. Bangladesh 01 Total 23 01 child was adopted by a Nepali family Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Rehabilitation dfOtL g ]kfn]

Itahari, Sunsari (est. 2002)

Established in March 2002, the Itahari Rehabilitation Home has so far served 341 girls and women. Its non-formal education programme is particularly effective in teaching residents reading, writing and arithmetic as well as addressing gender issues, including gender violence, child and women’s rights, leadership, health, birth registration, safe motherhood, early marriage, and HIV/AIDS. Different trainings and income generating skills are provided to each batch of trainees which encompasses six months training in tailoring; embroidery (boutique items).

2014 Highlights 38

 Reunited 10 of 38 persons reported missing, with Inharuwa on the eve of International Women’s Day. their families.  Conducted orientation sessions on human  Resolved one case of gender violence in favour of traffi cking and the health hazards associated with the survivor. it to 83 students of B.P. Koriala Hospital of Dharan on 28th May, 21st and 24th December.  Provided six-month empowerment training in sustainable livelihoods in tailoring, needlework  Celebrated 8th National Anti Human traffi cking and boutique work to 29 girls in the 17th and 18th day by organizing week long programs: On 3rd batch of trainees. September organised an orientation program for 64 students of Mahindra School, Shantinagar; on  With the objective to sensitize the armed police on 4th September, organized an awareness campaign human traffi cking and gender violence, orientation reaching out to 300 people in Shantinagar tole of session were conducted for 334 offi cials on 7th, Itahari and on 5th September organised a mass 20th April; 10th June, 25th, 31st July at Pakali rally of 650 people in Itahari. Armed Police Camp, Sunsari and Salakpur Armed Police Camp, Morang.  To mark “16 days of activism against Gender Violence” organized an interaction program on  To sensitize the people on safe migration, gender gender violence and human traffi cking for 150 violence and human traffi cking the Home people on 26th November in Itahari. organized awareness campaign in form of rally and street drama at Hasposa VDC and Pakali VDC on  Celebrated “International Human Rights Day” 5th February reaching 300 community people. on 10th December with a rally of 600 people and with an interaction programme for 65 people at  On 7th March organised a mass rally of 400 people in Itahari. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Rehabilitation Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Case Study Life could not have been worth as NOW

bandoned by her parents at an she got close to a girl named Nirmala early age of 4 years, Sanju had Tamang who asked her to go for a visit Ato live in her paternal uncle’s and to Pokhara along with her boyfriend aunty’s house in Taplejung. She has very named Dipesh. Upon her proposal, she faint memories of Taplejung, her birth asked Laxmi for her approval to go with place. She was ill-treated by her uncle Nirmala but Laxmi gave her strict denial. and aunt. At a very small age, she had to Sanju was frustrated with this decision work in her uncle’s restaurant as a helper. and so she quietly moved away from One day, a woman named Laxmi Khadka there without informing Laxmi. She took happened to visit their restaurant and upon some money along with her and reached seeing Sanju working hard she decided to Itahari where they had planned for their help her with her education. She then took meeting. Sanju had started off from home with the intension to visit Pokhara but Sanju to Butwal where she was provided out of a sudden Nirmala changed her plans and instead of going to Pokhara they made their plans to fi rst visit India and then continue for Pokhara. 39 Three of them then started for their journey to Kakarvitta where they planned to rest for some days before going to India. As Sanju did not have her purse, she had left her money with Nirmala. After three days, Nirmala and her boyfriend went missing from there. Sanju still waited for them at the hotel for a day and then having known nobody in the place, Sanju sought help of the local people who then directed her to Maiti Nepal in Kakarbhitta. Empowered Sanju at work: providing information at the border The staffs of Maiti Nepal, Kakarbhitta then sent her off to safe home and education. Sanju was very Itahari for undergoing training in the happy as she got the opportunity to study Rehabilitation Home where she received and a place to live in peace. Sanju studied comprehensive support and training for upto class seven in Butwal. Thereafter 6 months. After the training, Sanju was Sanju was taken to Kathmandu as Laxmi capacitated and empowered and then got married and had to shift to Kathmandu. she decided to work for Maiti Nepal Laxmi and her husband Rajan did not have to help the other girls/women acquire any children. Sanju continued her studies knowledge on human traffi cking which in Kathmandu. Their life was running she was unknown about during her smoothly but suddenly after a year, Laxmi school days. Sanju is presently working Khadka’s husband died out of some illness. as a Border Surveillance Staff at Maiti Nepal’s Transit Home at Pashupatinagar During her schools days in class ten of Ilam district. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Half-way Home dfOtL g ]kfn]

Half-way Home (Est. October 2009) 40

Maiti Nepal established a Half-way Home in October 2009 with the objective to provide a safe shelter home to the girls (below the age of 18) withdrawn from these sectors and then rehabilitate, provide an alternative livelihood to bring them to a mainstream society.

he small hotels, restaurant sector, massage bring them to a mainstream society. parlours in Nepal have emerged as a visible Tintermediary supply site in the context of Since its establishment, the home has provided internal as well as cross-border traffi cking of shelter to 132 (one hundred thirty two) girls and girls and young women. The last 5-6 years have women. In 2014 (50) girls received the services of seen an unprecedented number of women and the Half way home. Currently 13 girls are staying girls entering employment as workers in dance, at the home and 37 girls are re-integrated with cabin restaurants and massage parlours in Nepal. their families. Among 13 girls 09 girls are studying This has in somehow helped in the economic at Teresa Academy, a formal school run by Maiti independence of the girls/women but on a larger Nepal. 01 girl is undergoing parlour training in part put a threat to the life of the girls/women Kathmandu, 01 girl is being trained at bead making making them vulnerable to different forms of workshop run by Maiti Nepal and 01 girl is working abuse/exploitation and moreover hampering their in Maiti's bead workshop. social development. The girls also undertake active roles in raising As a matter of fact, Maiti Nepal established a Half- awareness against human traffi cking by performing way Home in October 2009 with the objective to street dramas during the awareness campaigns. To provide a safe shelter home to the girls (below the enhance their capabilities, the girls also learn to age of 18) withdrawn from these sectors and then play musical instruments, take classes on English rehabilitate, provide an alternative livelihood to language, painting and dancing. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Half-way Home Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Case Study The Unexpected itiable Nita was living to get a job at Dubai if she had with her sister-in Law in sexual relation with a 70 year old PBalaju. She was studying man. She was reluctant to do as in grade eight in Machapokhari, she said but thinking of getting Kathmandu. During this time a better opportunity in Dubai, she came into contact with a she entertained the man. She woman called Anita Lama who was forced to entertain this man used to work as a dancer in a everyday which made her sick and dance bar in Kathmandu. After tired. Whenever she would ask the a few days, she was taken to the lady about her job in Dubai she bar and got her introduced to her was told that they are getting her co-worker Arjun Tamang. She documents ready. Months passed “I never was enticed by the charm of the by but nothing changed. expected my night entertainment industry; she ultimately dropped her studies Nita contacted Suresh again and life would take and started working as a dancer asked to get a better job for her. in the dance bar. Suresh then offered her a good a different opportunity of working in a turn and One day Anita forced her to leave dance bar at Dhangadi where she her home and asked her to live would be paid handsomely. Nita would change with her. Sometime later she was accepted his offer instantly. 41 drastically. shifted to another dance bar where she was forced to have sexual They left for Dhangadi from I was into relation with the guest. Nita was Kathmandu and as they were hell and I am also forced to go out with the passing by Thankot, they were guests and spend night with them. stopped by Maiti Nepal’s Border thankful I have She used to entertain atleast 3 to Surveillance Staff and Police at 4 guests in a day. She was given Thankot who interrogated her as been saved. I Rs. 6000 as salary but all her she was suspected to be vulnerable love studying extra earned money was taken by to traffi cking. She discontinued her friends. She was also forced her journey and was sent to Maiti and reading so I to drink while she was with Nepal’s Head Offi ce wherefrom am happy I can the guest. Slowly, she became she was provided counseling and habituated to alcohol and also got enrolled into Half-way Home. continue my into drugs later on. Her friends taught her to take drugs and extort At present Nita has fi led a case schooling.” money from the guests. against Suresh and continue to live at Half-way Home. As per She used to get frustrated with her interest she has been enrolled her life when she did not get into Teresa Academy in class 3. money to buy drugs for herself. The people started abusing her Nita says “I never expected my relentlessly. During this time she life would take a different turn got in contact with a man called and would change drastically. I Suresh who in turn got introduced was into hell and I am thankful I her to a woman called Ranjana have been saved. I love studying who had just returned back from and reading so I am happy I can Dubai. Ranjana promised her continue my schooling.” Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Legal Aid dfOtL g ]kfn]

Legal Aid and Medical Services

As part of its rehabilitation efforts, Maiti Nepal provides survivors of traffi cking and other forms of abuse and exploitation with legal and medical services. By providing legal aid at its central offi ce in Kathmandu, Maiti Nepal helps to ensure that justice is done in the cases of children and women who have had their rights violated and helps to promote a sense of proper re compensation. For its part, the provision of medical services is a recognition that good health is a requisite for a good life and that child and women victims are often denied their right to preventive primary health care measures. Maiti Nepal’s clinic and two hospices to remedy this need and Initiative Hope lend a much- needed helpful hand to persons living with HIV/AIDS.

Legal Aid Section, Central Office, Kathmandu In 2014, 3619 people were provided with the legal support. Out of these

 27 human traffi cking cases were fi led in the different district courts throughout the country. All the cases are awaiting justice from the learned courts. 42  853 cases of domestic violence were reported, 498 cases were resolved out of court and other cases were referred to national women commission, police’s women cell, Nepal Bar Association and other related organizations. Ms. Anuradha Koirala convincing service seekers  1547 cases of missing girls, women and boys were reported, of which 872 were located and hrough its legal aid section in its central reunited with their families. offi ce in Kathmandu, Maiti Nepal provides legal support to survivors of traffi cking,  25 cases of rape were fi led in different district T courts and are awaiting fi nal decision. handles referrals and deals with the several daily requests for help in cases ranging from missing  1167 individuals sought legal counsel. girls, rescue from brothels, incidents of domestic violence, guardianship, child sexual harassment, abuse and exploitation, traffi cking, rape, polygamy through the government attorney’s general offi ce. and kinship. The legal Aid section is a regular Not all cases go to court, however, as Maiti Nepal establishment of Maiti Nepal currently reinforced lawyers pursue informal and alternative methods with the project “ Enhancing legal services to of dispute resolution like counselling, mediation mitigate cases of human traffi cking and gender and negotiation prior to litigation in domestic violence” in collaboration with Free A Girl. On violence cases. average, it handles eight to ten cases of domestic violence and two to three cases of missing children On a client's first visit, his or her complaint, and girls every day. personal data and the type of assistance sought are recorded. Whether or not he or she needs Survivors of traffi cking and rape are assisted in supplementary support, including shelter, registering FIR and pleading their cases in court. medicine or food, is also assessed. After Maiti Nepal extends its support until the district registering the complaint, the opposite party is court reaches a decision and, if the decision notified by phone and invited to Maiti Nepal's is unsatisfactory, an appeal is fi led with the office to discuss the problem and dispute concerned appellate court and Supreme Court settlements by alternative means (the ADR www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Legal Aid Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Process) are initiated. Negotiations are carried guardianship, child sexual harassment, abuse on over several sessions and only when all and exploitation, traffi cking, rape, polygamy and attempts at mediation have failed, a case is filed, kinship. On average, it handles eight to ten cases if the client wishes it and as a last recourse for of domestic violence and two to three cases of justice. Such mediation avoids court costs and missing children and girls every day. delays and often leads to an amicable settlement. When mediation fails in most criminal Survivors of traffi cking are assisted in registering matters, including rape, brutal violence and FIR and pleading their cases in court. Maiti Nepal trafficking, litigation is the only way to ensure a extends its support until the district court reaches constitutional remedy. In such cases, Maiti Nepal a decision and, if the decision is unsatisfactory, files cases with the police and the concerned an appeal is fi led with the concerned appellate court. court and Supreme Court through the government attorney’s general offi ce. Not all cases go to court, Through its legal aid section in its central offi ce in however, as Maiti Nepal lawyers pursue informal Kathmandu, Maiti Nepal provides legal support to and alternative methods of dispute resolution like survivors of traffi cking, handles referrals and deals counselling, mediation and negotiation prior to with the several daily requests for help in cases litigation in domestic violence cases. ranging from missing girls, rescue from brothels, gulf countries incidents of domestic violence,

Sonja Jeevan Kendra (est. 2002)  On 25th January and 23rd October polio 43 drop was administered to children below the age of 5 years residing at Sonja Bal Griha.

 On 21st April vitamin A was distributed to The Sonja Jeevan Kendra (clinic) was established 32 children residing in Sonja Bal Griha. in 2001 to provide medical services to the children, girls and women who reside at the  On 22nd May Tuberculosis screening camp Kathmandu rehabilitation home Kathmandu. was organized for the residents. It's services include providing general health  In October CD4 count was done to 54 checks and medical screening medical, nursing PLWHA.PLWHA. and psychological care moral support and basic emergency treatment; prescribing and dispensing medicine; monitoring anti recto viral treatment, taking patients taking patient for out -patients services, complex investigation, survey and major medical emergencies. It has the capacity basic laboratory tests, including determining total and differential blood counts erythrocyte sedimentation rate, haemoglobin level blood group, VDRL HIV status, and hepatitis B infection as well as carrying out routine microscopic examinations of urine and stool and the Monteux test. The clinic has 38 beds and is supervised by a full-time medical doctor who is supported by one In 2014, it served 1047 check-ups as inpatients staff nurse, one health assistant, two community of the residents as well as new clients. It also medical auxiliaries, one laboratory assistant and provided the following services to the general five clinic helpers. public and residents. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Hospice dfOtL g ]kfn]

There are 19 residents, including one baby girl. Sattighatta hospice and primary The hospice provides the residents with their basic needs including shelter, food, and medical care and health care centre (est. 1999) provides companionship and affection. To promote long term healing residents are encouraged to In April 1999, Maiti Nepal established a hospice participate in vegetable farming, fi sh breeding and on 8.15 acres of land in Sattighatta, Jyamirgadi animal husbandry. VDC, Jhapa District, fi ve Kilometres south of Sattighatta Hospice provides primary health care to Kakarvitta to shelter survivors of traffi cking who the local residents of Sattighatta where free medical suffer from various illnesses, including hepatitis, services including general check-ups, providing tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Its residents were medicines and conduct awareness campaigns on moved to Gokarna, Kathmandu district when Maiti health and hygiene. Nepal’s Sonja Kill Memorial Hospice was opened in January 2006 and the Sattighatta residents now In 2012, 509 locals, 213 children, 192 Women and houses survivors of gender violence suffering from 104 men received health services. psychiatric disorders. 44

meals, clothing and medical care, and offers Sonja Kill Memorial Hospice, them companionship and affection so they can live out the rest of their lives in dignity and Gokarna (Established in January 2006) serenity. Residents who moved from Sattighatta can still enjoy beautiful open grounds of almost This hospice was specially designed to introduce 3690 square metres, but they also benefi t from an serenity and dignity into the lives of survivors upgrade in the quality of care they receive because of traffi cking and gender violence who are in of the proximity of the hospice to the excellent poor health and to provide them with holistic emergency hospital care and skilled medical care. It meets their basic needs, including shelter, www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Hospice Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

professionals in Kathmandu. The hospice’s HIV/AIDS and human traffi cking as well as to modern amenities include 24-hour medical care, a provide the general public with information about balanced diet, and anti-retroviral treatment which these issues as requested by e-mail, fax, or post. The includes testing viral load and CD4 cells regularly. centre issues a computerized text database system, CDS/ISIS, developed by UNESCO. The IRC'S other The hospice currently houses 35; 22 children regular activities include publishing newsletter, and 13 women, but has the potential to expand. keeping up to date with news from branch offi ces, Residents not only receive medical treatment but organizing awareness programs and maintaining its also participate in vocational handicraft classes fi le of newspaper clippings related to children and like making bead necklaces and bracelets. The women, which dates to 1998. residents themselves grow seasonal vegetables for their own consumption. Yoga classes, At the end of December 2014, IRC had more meditation and birthday celebrations are regular than 2600 books, documents, reports, training activities, as are deciding upon the daily menu modules, newsletters, journals and papers related to and going on trips. traffi cking, gender and HIV/AIDS and had begun to establish an audio and video library. In 2014, 1020 people from different sectors made use of the Initiative Hope facilities. Other highlights of 2014 are listed below:

With the help from the INGO'S and organizations  Conducted 21 interaction programs with social which help and support Maiti Nepal, Initiative workers, medical institutes, teachers, students and Hope was launched in the month of September representatives from various organizations, foreign 2003. Initiative Hope is a Campaign to provide delegates anti-retroviral treatment (ART) monitoring to all HIV/AIDS-infected people cared by Maiti Nepal  Issued 6 press releases under the management of outstanding medical  Conducted 6 awareness campaigns in Nuwakot, 45 team. Kavre, Dhading, Surkhet and Dang Districts. Initiative Hope is a Campaign to provide anti- retroviral treatment (ART) monitor skin and HIV/ AIDS-infected people cared by Maiti Nepal under the care of excellent medical team. Of the total 79 PLWHA(People Living with HIV/ AIDS),44 are receiving ART, out of which 23 are adult female and 02 adult male and 11 female child and 8 male child. Since 2008 Maiti Nepal has been receiving antiretroviral drugs from the Government of Nepal. The CD4 counts in them prove that the treatment of effective in reducing the mortality rate, though not curable. In 2014, 54 children and women underwent CD4 count Information Management Maiti Nepal set up an information and resource centre (IRC) in 2002 to collect, disseminate, process and store information related to women, children, Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Education dfOtL g ]kfn]

Teresa Academy, Kathmandu (Est. 1998)

To provide the formal education and all-round development of orphans, under-privileged children and children at high risk of being traffi cked, the founder of Maiti Nepal Mrs. Anuradha Koirala established Teresa Academy in April 1998. Since then the academy is committed to providing a positive childhood in an intellectually stimulating learning environment through varied activities.

The year 2014 is the sixteenth academic year of Teresa Academy. Currently there are 421 students studying in various classes, 145 children are the children from Maiti Nepal’s Sonja girls child protection center, 29 are from the boys child protection center, 12 students are from the missionaries of charity, 83 are from Bal Basera (an organization for confl ict victim children) 16 children are former street children and 136 students are day scholars. Out of which 58 children are provided with uniforms and stationeries from the school. 46 Highlights

 Since last 16 years school has been able to  Students are frequently taken out for educational graduate seventh SLC batch with 100% result. and excursion tours to broaden their knowledge Many of the students have been able to secured on different historical places, botanical and distinction and have kept the integrity of the zoological gardens. school. The former alumni of Teresa Academy  School has a great inclination in basketball and are working successfully in schools, banks, has four teams of basketball. The girl's team hospitals and in private companies. Recently has a record of holding valley top team for two graduates are pursuing their higher education in consecutive years. the fi eld of Medicine, Accountancy and Arts.  School has proved to be a right place to bring  School organises various extracurricular the positive changes in children's life as it has activities such as art and craft, elocutions, debate, help to divert their mind from trauma they all music and dance classes to enhance the learning have been through. capabilitypy of children.

dreams bigger than life and has strong determination Sponsorship Program of achieving them, because they have gone through challenges that we cannot imagine of. As per the census report of 2010, 43% of the population of Nepal is children under 18 years of The sponsorship project of Maiti Nepal is a small age. Out of these children approximately 300 of approach to the sponsor to fund a child until the them aged between new born to 18 years resides child becomes self suffi cient or fi nishes their in Maiti Child Protection Centre. Although it is a higher secondary education. With help from small number in terms of the total population, what sponsorship of a child to acquire the basic rights makes the children at Maiti Nepal special is that they like proper food, safe shelter, quality education are survivors. Each one of the Maiti's Children has and access to medical care. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Education Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

Scholarship Program (Hope for Children) The scholarship program is designed to provide fi nancial support to orphaned and vulnerable youth who have successfully completed grade 12, to assist them to undertake tertiary education programs at suitable institutions in Nepal and India. Thereby helping to empower and encourage them to break their cycle of vulnerability and poverty and ultimately make useful contributions to the social and economic development of their local communities. Till now 26 students got an opportunity to pursue undergraduate academic programs, like MBBS, Hotel Management, information technology, into its program to educate young people who Business Administration, Chartered Accountancy cannot complete their higher education and drop and engineering form different institutions. out due to specifi c reasons through vocational Recently the fi rst batch or cohort 1 which training/education. Year 2014 has given a ray of comprises of 8 students successfully completed hope to those who cannot study and fi nancially their education. neglected. Scholarship program has initiated a new module 47

Hamro Sawal: Hamro Sahabhagita “Our concern, our Participation” From July 2013, Maiti Nepal and UNICEF Nepal have jointly implemented a new project entitled “Hamro Sawal, Hamro Sahabhagita”. This project addresses the key issues of adolescents and intends to mobilize them as change agents in the society, thereby transforming the lives of thousands of adolescents as change makers utilizing the immense energy and potentialities they have. Adolescent girls reached by the program will have comprehensive HIV and AIDS knowledge; parents, guardians and community members will participate in social events to address harmful social practices; and issues of children and adolescents will be Reduction were held; meetings, interactions and addressed by the government through new policies orientations were held with community line agencies or improved enforcement efforts at Chisapani, Nuwakot district; joint advocacy initiative on "Changing Dimensions of Human In 2014 Maiti Nepal’s trainers and 24 adolescents Traffi cking and Regional efforts" was organised peer leaders were trained on Dance4life, Goal in Kathmandu; adolescents carried out social and HIV Risk Reduction, Social and fi nancial actions on harmful practice and facilitators on MSC packages; sessions on Dance4life, Goal, HIV Risk monitoring and Evaluation Techniques were trained. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Education dfOtL g ]kfn]

Rights and Democracy for One Million Girls

very child possesses rights and the state should be responsible to make those rights Eaccessible to every child. The project, “Rights and Democracy for One Million Girls” helps children from every corner to come together in a common platform and get equipped about what rights they possess and how they can make use of their rights in every sphere of their lives. Launched in year 2012, this project is implemented a part of the World’s Children Prize program promoting girl’s rights, focusing on the child sex trade. Currently, this project is implemented in the districts of Kathmandu, Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, Parsa, Makwanpur, Kailai, Rupandehi, Banke, Nuwakot, Sindhupalchowk, Kavrepalanchowk, Dhading, Bardiya and Nawalparasi. Under this project Maiti Nepal implemented the following

48 programs in 2014:

 To sensitize and train the children on Child Rights and mobilize them as the Child Rights Ambassadors in their own schools, a workshop was organized in Kathmandu on 7th and 8th August to train 50 girls to work as the Child Rights Ambassadors in fi ve districts.

 To sensitize the media on child rights and to announce the name of selected candidates for the World’s Children’s Prize, a children led press conference was organised on 14th February in Kathmandu for 40 people.

 Conducted 50 orientation sessions involving more than 250 children on child rights and democracy in 50 schools of 5 different districts.

 A workshop was organized for 50 teachers of Kavrepalanchowk, Nawalparasi, Dhading, Bardiya and Sindhupalchowk on 24th and 25th June to sensitize and train them on Child Rights and mobilize them as the child right friendly teacher in their own schools.

 Organised global vote day from 4th September- 14th October (pls. insert date) in the districts of Kathmandu, Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, Parsa, Makwanpur, Kailai, Rupandehi, Banke, Nuwakot, organised a press conference for 35 people to Sindhupalchowk, Kavrepalanchowk, Dhading, sensitize the media and disclose the name of the Bardiya, Nawalparasi. child rights hero as the winner of the World’s  On 29th October, child rights ambassadors Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women Naani Annual Report 2014 dfOtL g ]kfn]

'NAANI' - Name of Activist for Anti-traffi cking National Initiative (Started- November 2011)

ith the aim of preventing human traffi cking through the efforts of trained female volunteers, Maiti Nepal has instigated a project "NAANI", which is a commonly used Nepali word Wfor addressing young girls. Under this project, the trained volunteers - NAANI themselves undertake anti-traffi cking programmes in their respective communities. To make community aware of human traffi cking, safe migration, gender violence and women's rights 16 girls from Kaverpalanchok (Deupur and Naldum VDCs), Makwanpur (Handikola and Manahari VDCs), Nawalparasi (Daunnedevi and Dumkibas VDCs) and Nuwakot (Samundratar and Sundaradevi VDCs) districts are mobilised as "NAANI". In 2014 they undertook the following programs: 49

 Saved 6 girls from getting traffi cked by year in comparison to previous year. intercepting them;  50.48% (40,096) people were made aware on  4 reported girls were missing and at risky human traffi cking, gender violence and safe situation they rescued were from that situation migration; NAANIs outreach programs increased and reintegrated with their family; by 29.07% in comparison to last year; 23,087 more people were reached in 2014  Trace and reunited 44 girls with their family out of 64 cases of missing fi led in NAANI offi ces;  608 community people participated in 34 interaction sessions undertaken by NAANI's.  Resolved 43 gender violence cases in favour of survivors; 1 case was referred to police offi ce for  2,588 people were made aware on human further process; traffi cking through 26 orientation, training and sensitization programs.  All the commuwnity people from 8 VDCs of 4 districts were targeted by NAANI.  Door-to-door programs were able to sensitise Out of total 79,432 (41,319 female and 38,113 male) targeted 3,244 students, youths, teen girls and house people in eight VDCs of four districts: wives on gender violence, human traffi cking and women’s rights.  50.48% (40,096) people were made aware on  Two cultural programs with human traffi cking human traffi cking, gender violence and safe as its theme were organised for 775 people of migration; increased community outreach of Kabhrepalanchowk district. NAANIs by 29.07% (23,087) by organizing different events of community sensitization this  Held 150 meetings for 2865 people to discuss Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Annual Report 2014 Naani dfOtL g ]kfn]

the role of community in preventing human traffi cking.

 Organized 6 rallies and street dramas to raise the consciousness level of 1,166 people on the hazards of human traffi cking, gender violence and unsafe migration;

 Carried out 23 sessions of data collection to identify communities with low awareness level, after that community awareness programs were organised for 9,288 people.

 To increase awareness level of students and women on human traffi cking and gender violence 03 elocutions and one quiz contest were held for 1099 of Nuwakot district.

 02 photo record keeping sessions were held to work hand in hand with NAANIs of and details of 180 teen girls were recorded by Makwanpur district; they are now working in two NAANIs in Nuwakot. groups.

 Latest mobile technology training was provided  Distributed 12,912 copies of IEC (Information to 16 NAANIs for easy and fast reporting. Education and Communication) materials on human traffi cking, gender violence, HIV and  Comprehensive shelter support was provided AIDS. 50 to 02 orphans girls from the district of Kabhrepalanchowk identifi ed by NAANIs as  Carried out a sample survey on the knowledge of potential victims. 42 students of Nawalparasi on human traffi cking, gender violence, safe migration, children’s rights;  Formed 2 groups of interested women in the the survey revealed that most of students were district of Makwanpur. conceptually clear on aforementioned topics after  46 women social activists volunteered themselves NAANIs started their anti traffi cking campaigns. Annual reach out at data a glance District VDC Female Male Total Reached % Deupur 2877 2497 5374 5107 95.03 Kabhrepalanchowk Naldum 3080 2943 6023 4598 76.34 Total 5957 5440 11397 9705 85.15 Hadikhola 8890 9525 18415 5449 29.59 Makwanpur Manahari 10354 9630 19984 1082 5.41 Total 19244 19155 38399 6531 17.01 Daunnedevi 7495 6041 13536 5684 41.99 Nawalparasi Dumkibas 6084 4966 11050 3848 34.82 Total 13579 11007 24586 9532 38.77 Samundratar 926 1071 1997 2847 142.56 Nuwakot Sundaradevi 1613 1440 3053 4965 162.63 Total 2539 2511 5050 7812 154.69 Add reached through: Information and training 6516 8.20 Total 41319 38113 79432 40096 50.48 % 52.02 47.98 www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women

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Case Study Rita and Laxman now as an exemplary couple in Gairibisaund Deupur Anita is now enjoying normal life; she is ita is a girl who was suffering from not more victim of gender violence domestic violence. She belongs to a Rvillage Kabhrepalanchowk district, y name is Anita Nepali and I am From Gairibisauna Deupur VDC. She is 35 years Baluwapati village in Kabhrepalanchowk old. Her husband’s name is Laxman. Her Mdistrict. I have one son and one daughter. marriage was arranged and she was not My husband’s name is Luvre Nepal and due to happy with her husband. Her husband did our cast we work as tailor. We run a tailor shop not love her even one time. to support our family. My husband always drinks alcohol and smokes cigarette. He always takes my Her husband was a drunkard and he never money and if money is not there he beats me a lot as looked after his children. He used to spend well as my little children. Due to his behavior I am his time by drinking alcohol and she could very fed up and I need support to be alive. not do anything to him. It was very diffi cult for her to look after her children and work in One day I heard about Maiti Nepal’s NAANI project the farm alone. and the works of NAANIs in my village which was established by the help of Maiti Nepal from some Her husband used to beat her badly day women. NAANI is to make all women free from by day. There was no one to support her. domestic violence. When I knew about it I gave them She tolerated the torture for long time. Her an application for support. NAANIs called Anita and husband never provided her any rights. One her husband and gave them many advice on domestic day she heard about the Maiti Nepal. So 51 violence. They told her husband that if he drinks alcohol she went to Maiti Nepal information center and smokes than it is bad for his health, as well as named NAANI project to solve her problem. society and his children. He also may get punishment Her husband knows about the girl's problem, from concerned agencies if he continues his habit. so when he got briefi ng session from Maiti After getting all the training he started to change his Nepal’s information Centre, he completely habit and started to help his family. He started to work changed his habit. He started to respect his with Anita. But it took long time for him to become a wife and loved her. normal man. But again after some time he started to He also left his drinking habit and started continue his habit. One day he beat Anita and threw to look after his family. They started to live her out of the house at mid night. Again she came to happy life after getting help from Maiti Nepal. Maiti Nepal for help. Maiti Nepal went to advice him but he did not listen to them. Seeing this, they told The writer says that if Maiti Nepal was not him that if he continues his drinking habit then he will there then her sister's life would be not like not get help from the village and society and he will that. She is completely free from domestic also not be able to stay in that village. This scared him violence and she is happy. Her children and he swore to never drink or smoke again. Anita already started to go to school. Not only that was then sent back to her home. her sister is working for other girls who are suffering from same situation. She loves to Now Anita is living with her husband and children work against the domestic violence. and she is happy with them. Her husband does not drink and he looks after his children. Their children Rita wants to thank Maiti Nepal and the go to School while they work as tailor and are happy entire supporter who help her to be new with each other. They are spending their life happily Rita. She will never forget their support in and Anita is very thankful to Maiti Nepal for giving her life. She wants to make her children her husband back to her. Anita says, Maiti Nepal’s social worker in her life for the right of the NAANIs made my life normal. woman. Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org

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Mass Awareness Campaigns (initiated in 1993)

wareness campaigns have been an integral part of Maiti Nepal’s activities since its Ainception since they effectively reduce the incidence of traffi cking with advantages including being able to reach rural areas, cover all ages, ethnicities and genders, and target specifi c groups like teachers, adolescents, girls and women.

 More than 1,000,000 people were made aware of human traffi cking through 52 episodes of Kantipur FM

 Aired 09 episodes of FM programmes through Ujyaalo FM 90.00 MHz reaching more than 200,000 people belonging to 58 districts.

 Organised series of awareness programme in Kathmandu, Dhading, Nawalparasi, Rupandehi,

52 Dang, Surkhet, Chitwan, Makwanpur, Bara, Rautahat, Sarlahi, Dhanusha, Saptari, Siraha, Sunsari, Nuwakot and Kabhrepalanchowk districts from 05-10 January; 3-8 February; 1-4 March and 3-4 September directly reaching 105,471 people. In the second phase, 3,150 people belonging to Naubise, Dharke, Baireni, Malekhu, Dhadingbeshi, Jogimara and Kiranchowk of Dhading district were reached through the campaign held from 17- 19 December. The third stage of awareness program were held from 22-24 December in Bhumlutar, Phalante, Kolanti, Birtadeurali, Kattikedeurali, Maadan Kundari, Pokhari Chauri, Gothpani, Salle and Chaubas VDCs of Kabhrepalanchwok district and Gunsi Bhadaura VDC in Ramechhap district reaching 2,820 people.

 Organised orientation program for 3,000 students on anti-human traffi cking initiatives in 10 schools of Dang, Surkhet, Sunsari, Morang and Jhapa in May. As a result, villagers themselves have organised follow up programs for 500 people to identify their roles and responsibilities in preventing human traffi cking.

 100 students from the districts of Dang, Surkhet, Sunsari, Morang and Jhapa directly participated in essay and interaction competition programs against human traffi cking. 500 children and youths were reached by this program. www.maitinepal.org Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women

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