INTRODUCTION 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, One of the most cherished words in Nepali has to be Maiti, a Government of Nepal; affiliate no.1137 married womans childhood home. This is where, as a girl, she ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child receives unconditional love, and, where, as a woman living in Pornography and Trafficking of her Ghar, or husbands home, she returns to celebrate important Children for Sexual Purposes) festivals and to recover after the birth of her children. Beyond ATSEC Nepal Chapter (Action against being just a word, Maiti is a concept: it represents a place of security and comfort, a sanctuary in a world that can be terribly Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of cruel, especially to women. Children) Listed as the member of UNECOSOC Maiti Nepal is just such a refuge for Nepali women who every year find themselves trafficked, exploited or abused or who have Headquarters: Kathmandu their rights denied. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Kathmandu, this non-profit, secular organisation works to protect Infrastructure: 3 prevention homes, vulnerable individuals, rescue victims and improve their lives, 12 transit homes, 2 rehabilitation promote child and womens rights, and ultimately to end trafficking homes, and 2 hospices, 01 half way altogether through four key activity sectors: prevention, advocacy, home, 03 Information and Counselling rescue, and rehabilitation. In its efforts, Maiti Nepal seeks to centre around the country build awareness and secure the cooperation of school and college students, parliamentarians, law enforcement agencies and organisations in Nepal as well as their counterparts in India. Objectives: Vision · Advocate, conduct awareness campaigns, seek public support, and create social pressure against trafficking of A society free of the sexual and other children and women forms of exploitation of children and · Provide counselling, support and life skills to children and women women at risk of being trafficked. · Rescue trafficked children and women from exploitative conditions abroad and repatriate them Mission · Provide legal services, health counselling, and assistance to destitute women, survivors of girl trafficking and victims To combat exploitation, violence, and of domestic violence. trafficking of children and women · Rehabilitate survivors by providing them with education, through comprehensive prevention and counselling, and a safe home. rehabilitation programs promoting · Shelter orphans and destitute children and support their education, empowerment, health, and overall development. social inclusion. ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2 INTRODUCTION Programme Activities Prevention Operating prevention homes, running formal and non-formal education programmes, providing vocational income-generating training and micro-credit, establishing community safety nets, promoting womens empowerment and safe migration, intercepting potential victims, and scaling-up initiatives Advocacy Conducting mass community awareness campaigns, orientations and trainings; training school teachers and students, establishing students-against-human-trafficking groups, establishing information and resource centres and community outreach programmes conducting cross-sectoral meetings, linking and networking with line agencies. Annual Statistics Total Interception 3,919 Rescue Migrants informed at border 157,121 Securing liberation or withdrawal and facilitating repatriation Victims rescued 273 Rehabilitation 30 Human trafficking cases initiated Providing medical services and crisis counselling, identifying Women trained at prevention homes 147 families and reuniting survivors, mainstreaming into formal Women trained at rehabilitation home 128 education, providing life skills and gainful employment, Girls/women who returned directly from border 1,138 establishing self-help groups and conducting rights-based training, apprehending and filing charges against offenders, Missing /Found 2,444/ 320 reintegrating survivors and following up on their progress ANNUAL REPORT 2017 3 PREVENTION PREVENTION Prevention Homes In an ideal world, no Maiti Nepal prevention homes run four to six month long child or women would residential trainings for up to 25 at-risk girls at a time. Their comprehensive programme includes psychological ever be trafficked; in counselling and self-esteem-building activities; lessons in trafficking, health care, child and womens rights and social reality, the vulnerable issues, and training in life and income-generating skills such as sewing, candle making, fabric painting, tailoring, handloom will still be sold. To weaving and small scale entrepreneurship development. To motivate trainees to become social activists, the package counter this problem, also teaches leadership, group formation, communication Maiti Nepal has taken and community mobilisation skills. Graduates are empowered to conduct awareness campaigns, in particular about the several steps, as methods of traffickers; stand vigil in their communities; detect warning signs and prevent trafficking. Their success outlined below. demonstrates that vulnerable populations are beginning to understand the magnitude and ramifications of the problem. Prevention Homes Prevention Home Totals Shelter vulnerable girls temporarily Girl trained on women empowerment 105 Equip them with life and income-generating skills Missing / Found 101/25 Promote awareness about human trafficking Human trafficking cases initiated 5 Train girls to be social activists Rape cases registered in the court 13 Girls provided short term shelter 12 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 4 PREVENTION Chisapani, Nuwakot (Estd March 1996) in 2017 Since its inception in 1996, Prevention Home Nuwakot has so far provided training to 760 girls/women. In 2017, thirty second and thirty third group comprising of 27 (twenty seven) trainees completed their training. During the year 2017 following major works were done: · 27 (twenty seven) girls at extremely high risk of being trafficked have successfully completed six months comprehensive training (January-December) at the prevention home, Chisapani-Nuwakot to become: § Social activist § Small scale entrepreneurs · 02 (two) cases of gender violence were reported and solved in favor of the applicants. · 01 was found out of 02 missing application. · Marked 107th International Womens Day on 7 March by organizing an orientation program on women violence in Talakhu for 40 women and on 8th March organised a rally, street drama, speech competition in Talakhu on the same day a rally and a street drama was organised in Municipality, Nuwakot reaching 900 people. · On 5th and 7th April organised door to door awareness programs for 350 people in Talakhu and Chap village council among which 190 were female and 160 were male. Importan · On 17, 18 and 19 October prevention home trainees t dates organised awareness programs in Beetani and Belkotgadi 8 March International W of Nuwakot; Melamchi Municipality of Sindhupalchowk omens Day district . 5 Sept Na ember tional Anti-Tr afficking Day · Advocacy programs reached 550 households. 1 December AIDS Day · Prevention home conducted regular awareness programmes in Sindhupalchowk and Nuwakot districts and distributed more than 16,000 IEC materials. ANNUAL REPORT 2017 5 PREVENTION Hetauda, Makwanpur (Estd. 1997) Since the begining of the prevention home Makwanpur 900 girls and women have received basic training on sewing, tailoring and to become social activists. · Forty (40) girls belonging to 38 and 39 batch completed · On 26th May conducted a school orientation program their residential training. on child marriage in Ujwal higher Secondary School reaching 120 Students. · Provided short term shelter to twenty (20) children and women who were referred to the prevention home by · On 30th July an orientation program on anti-human the police and local organizations. trafficking and safe migration processes was held in Bhaise VDC for 63 participants. · Traced and reunited thirty two (32)out of seventy nine (79) girls reported missing by their families. · On 7th August 60 sewing machines were provided to trainee girls to set up their own tailoring shops. · One Hundred and thirty (130) cases of gender violence were reported and solved in favour of the applicants. · On 13th August prevention home distributed clothes to flood victims in Manahari village council. · Provided information on safe migration to 3,280 (Three thousand two hundred and eighty) girls/women who · Commemorated 11 national anti human trafficking day came to the district administration office to apply for by organizing a rally, street drama, corner meeting and passports. an interaction meeting on "changing dimension of human trafficking" reaching 300 people in Hetauda. · Prevention home registered seven (07) trafficking cases in the district court. 11 accused have been apprehended · Celebrated Childrens Day on 14 September by organizing and the cases are under trial. a quiz competition on child rights and a drawing competition on child marriage in Hetauda reaching 450 · Prevention home registered one (01) case of child children. marriage case in the District Court, which is under trial. · Prevention home registered fourteen (14) cases of rape in the district court. 02 cases have been decided in the favour of survivors. 01 perpetuator received jail term for 11 years and had to