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1 Introduction 3 Overview 4 Prevention Home Chisapani, Nuwakot 6 Contents Prevention Home, Hetauda, Makwanpur 7 Bardhaghat, Nawalparasi 9 Information and Vigilance at Nagdhunga 10 Advocasy Mass Awareness Campaigns in 2011 11 YPP 12 Transit Home Kakarvitta, Jhapa 14 Bhairahawa 15 Birgunj, Parsa 16 Biratnagar, Morang 17 Nepalgunj, Banke 18 Pashupatinagar 19 Dhangadhi, Kailali 20 Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur 21 Rasuwa 22 Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Kathmandu 24 Rehabilitation Itahari, Sunsari 27 Legal Aid and Medical Services 28 Medical Services 29 Education Support 32 Half-way Home 33 'NAANI' - Name of Activist for Anti-trafficking National Initiative 35 Financial Status Date of registration: 1993 ATSEC Nepal Chapter (Action against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children) Registration no.: 413/049/050 under Article 4 of the Institutional Registration Act of 2034 Headquarters: Kathmandu Place of registration: Kathmandu District Regional headquarters: Kakarvitta, Bharatpur, Administrative Office and Bhairawa in the Eastern, Central and Western development regions respectively Affiliations: Social Welfare Council, Government of Nepal; affiliate no.1137 Infrastructure: 3 prevention homes, 9 transit homes, 2 rehabilitation homes, and 2 hospices ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography around the country and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) 2 Introduction O ne of the most cherished words in Nepali has to Vision be Maiti, a married woman’s childhood home. This is where, as a girl, she receives unconditional A society free of the sexual and other forms of love, and, where, as a woman living in her Ghar, exploitation of children and women or husband’s home, she returns to celebrate important festivals and to recover after the birth Mission of her children. Beyond being just a word, Maiti is a concept: it represents a place of security and To combat exploitation, violence, and trafficking comfort, a sanctuary in a world that can be terribly of children and women through comprehensive cruel, especially to women. prevention and rehabilitation programs promoting education, empowerment, health, and social Maiti Nepal is just such a refuge for Nepali women inclusion. who every year find themselves trafficked, exploited or abused or who have their rights Objectives denied. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Kathmandu, this non-profit, secular organisation • Advocate, conduct awareness campaigns, works to protect vulnerable individuals, rescue seek public support, and create social pressure victims and improve their lives, promote child against trafficking of children and women and women’s rights, and ultimately to end • Provide counselling, support and life skills to trafficking altogether through four key activity children and women at risk of being trafficked. sectors: prevention, advocacy, rescue, and • Rescue trafficked children and women from rehabilitation. In its efforts, Maiti Nepal seeks to exploitative conditions abroad and repatriate build awareness and secure the cooperation of them school and college students, parliamentarians, • Provide legal services, health counselling, and law enforcement agencies and organisations in assistance to destitute women, survivors of Nepal as well as their counterparts in India. girl trafficking and victims of domestic violence. • Rehabilitate survivors by providing them with education, counselling, and a safe home. • Shelter orphans and destitute children and support their overall development. 3 Programme Activities Prevention and students, establishing students-against-human- trafficking groups, establishing information and Overview Operating prevention homes, running formal and resource centres and community outreach non-formal education programmes, providing programmes conducting cross-sectoral meetings, vocational income-generating training and micro- linking and networking with line agencies. credit, establishing community safety nets, promoting women’s empowerment and safe Rescue migration, intercepting potential victims, and scaling- up initiatives Securing liberation or withdrawal and facilitating repatriation Advocacy Rehabilitation Conducting mass community awareness campaigns, orientations and trainings; training school teachers Providing medical services and crisis counselling, identifying families and reuniting survivors, mainstreaming into formal education, providing life skills and gainful employment, establishing self-help groups and conducting rights-based training, apprehending and filing charges against offenders, reintegrating survivors and following up on their progress. Annual Statistics Total interceptions 2,478 Migrants informed at borders 47, 973 Victims rescued 88 Human trafficking cases initiated 46 Women trained at Prevention homes 80 4 Prevention Homes Prevention In an ideal world, no child or women would ever be trafficked; in reality, the vulnerable will still be sold. To counter this problem, Maiti Nepal has taken several steps, as outlined below. Prevention Homes Prevention homes Three Maiti Nepal prevention homes run four- to Shelter vulnerable girls temporarily six-month-long residential trainings for up to 25 at- Equip them with life and income- risk girls at a time. Their comprehensive programme generating skills includes psychological counselling and self-esteem- building activities; lessons in trafficking, health care, Promote awareness about human child and women’s rights and social issues, and trafficking training in life and income-generating skills such as Train girls to be social activists sewing, candle making, fabric painting, tailoring, handloom weaving and small scale Prevention home totals entrepreneurship development. To motivate trainees 120 girls trained on women to become social activists, the package also teaches empowerment leadership, group formation, communication and 01 victim rescued from community mobilisation skills. Graduates are empowered to conduct awareness campaigns, in exploitation particular about the methods of traffickers; stand 50/133 Found/Missing vigil in their communities; detect warning signs and 04 Human trafficking cases prevent trafficking. Their success demonstrates that initiated vulnerable populations are beginning to understand 15 rape cases registered in the the magnitude and ramifications of the problem. court 31 girls provided short term shelter 06 victims rescued and repatriated 5 Important Dates 8 March : 100th International Women’s Day 5 September : 5th National [Anti-Trafficking Day ] Chisapani, Nuwakot (est. March 1996) Since its inception in 1996, Prevention Home Nuwakot has so far provided Prevention training to 539 girls/women. In 2011, twenty-first group comprising of 20 (Twenty) trainees girls completed their training; and twenty-second group comprising of 20 girls are undergoing training in the prevention home. 2011 Highlights 02 girls (Orphan and deprived) were provided with educational scholarship. Settled 02 cases of gender violence in favour st of the survivor. Celebrated 101 International Women’s Day by conducting an awareness song competition. 07 cases of missing girls were reported to the Prevention Home. Prevention home has alerted On the occasion of Maiti Nepal’s 18th Anniversary, Maiti Nepal’s transit homes about these cases and Prevention Home organised an interaction has further registered missing cases in police programme on Human Trafficking for 90 people. stations. 03 girls were found and reunited with On the occasion of Teej, (a Hindu festival) the their families. prevention home organised a folk song Decided 18-year-old orphan of Talakhu VDC, competition with human trafficking as its theme Nuwakot, who arrived in 2002 and is now a grade for 2500 viewers in co-ordination with Srijanshil 11 student in a nearby government school, is no Bal Chetana Samuha and Indreshwari Higher longer a potential victim. Secondary School. The Prevention Home has set a high priority on In coordination with local clubs organised a rally re-training and mobilising previous trainees. and drama in Melamchi, Sindhupalchowk district Under this important plan, 25 former trainees were to celebrate fifth national anti-trafficking Day on re-formed into three groups with the aim of 05 September reaching 1,100 people. spreading awareness against human trafficking Prevention home trainees conducted awareness in their respective areas. programmes in form of door-to-door, orientation 10 former trainees were mobilised in their own and interactions programmes in Nuwakot, villages to work as Maiti Nepal’s volunteer for Sindhupalchwok, Rasuwa, Kathmandu and spreading awareness against human trafficking. Dhading district reaching 10000 people. Transit home conducted regular awareness programmes in Sindhupalchowk and Nuwakot districts and distributed more than 7,000 IEC materials. 6 Prevention Home, Hetauda, Makwanpur (est. 1997) Since it’s inception in 1997, Prevention Home Hetauda, Makwanpur has so far provided prevention training to 630 girls and women. Prevention Forty (40) girls belonging to twenty-seventh Protected five (05) girls from unsafe and twenty- eight batch completed their migration by providing counselling in the residential training in the prevention home. Chief District Office. The girls were below the age of 18 and had come to the CDO to make Seventy three (73) cases of gender violence passport to go to foreign country for were reported and all the cases were settled employment. in favour of survivors. Out of these four (04) cases