Our voice: A society free from trafficking of children and women www.maitinepal.org Date of registration: 1993 Registration no.: 413/049/050 under Article 4 of the Institutional Registration Act of 2034 2 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, 10 transit homes, 2 rehabilitation homes, and 2 hospices, 01 half way home, 03 Information and Counselling centre around the country ANNUAL REPORT 2015 INTRODUCTION Vision One of the most cherished words in Nepali has to be Maiti, a married woman's A society free from sexual and other forms of childhood home. exploitation of children and women. Maiti denotes a girls real family, where she was born into. The word has a sentimental value especially for a married Nepali woman. Usually, after marriage a girl belongs to her Mission husband and his family forever. However, To combat exploitation, violence, and trafficking Maiti Nepal is a home to all women and girls regardless of being married or not. A of children and women through comprehensive safe haven for those, whose rights are prevention and rehabilitation programs promoting exploited, violated and neglected by society. education, empowerment, health, and social It was a crusade to find such victims a home inclusion. for their protection from social evils that 3 gave birth to this organization in April 1993. Beyond being just a word, Maiti is a concept: Objectives: it represents a place of security and comfort, · Advocate, conduct awareness campaigns, seek a sanctuary in a world that can be terribly public support, and create social pressure against cruel, especially to women. trafficking of children and women Maiti Nepal is just such a refuge for Nepali · Provide counselling, support and life skills to women who every year find themselves children and women at risk of being trafficked. trafficked, exploited or abused or who have their rights denied. Founded in 1993 and · Rescue trafficked children and women from headquartered in Kathmandu, this non-profit, exploitative conditions abroad and repatriate secular organisation works to protect them vulnerable individuals, rescue victims and · Provide legal services, health counselling, and improve their lives, promote child and assistance to destitute women, survivors of girl women's rights, and ultimately to end trafficking and victims of domestic violence. trafficking altogether through four key activity sectors: prevention, advocacy, · Rehabilitate survivors by providing them with rescue, and rehabilitation. In its efforts, education, counselling, and a safe home. Maiti Nepal seeks to build awareness and secure the cooperation of school and college · Shelter orphans and destitute children and students, parliamentarians, law enforcement support their overall development. agencies and organisations in Nepal as well as their counterparts in India. ANNUAL REPORT 2015 OVERVIEW Programme Activities Prevention conducting cross-sectoral meetings, linking and operating prevention homes, running formal and non- networking with line agencies. formal education programmes, providing vocational income-generating training and micro-credit, Rescue establishing community safety nets, promoting securing liberation or withdrawal and facilitating womens empowerment and safe migration, repatriation intercepting potential victims, and scaling-up initiatives Rehabilitation Advocacy providing medical services and crisis counselling, conducting mass community awareness campaigns, identifying families and reuniting survivors, orientations and trainings; training school teachers mainstreaming into formal education, providing and students, establishing students-against-human- life skills and gainful employment, establishing trafficking groups, establishing information and self-help groups and conducting rights-based resource centres and community outreach programmes training, apprehending and filing charges against offenders, reintegrating survivors and following up on their progress 4 Annual Statistics Total interceptions 2237 Migrants informed at borders 110897 Victims rescued 104 Human trafficking cases initiated 26 Women trained at Prevention homes 60 Missing /Found 1272/215 Girls/Women themselves returned 4880 from border after counselling ANNUAL REPORT 2015 PREVENTION Important dates Prevention 8 March International Women s Day In an ideal world, no child or women would ever be trafficked; 5 September in reality, the vulnerable will still be sold. To counter this problem, National Anti-Trafficking Day 1 December Maiti Nepal has taken several steps, as outlined below. AIDS Day 5 Prevention Homes Prevention Homes Three Maiti Nepal prevention homes run four to six month long residential trainings for up to 25 at-risk Shelter vulnerable girls temporarily girls at a time. Their comprehensive programme Equip them with life and income-generating skills includes psychological counselling and self-esteem- Promote awareness about human trafficking building activities; lessons in trafficking, health care, Train girls to be social activists child and womens rights and social issues, and training in life and income-generating skills such as sewing, candle making, fabric painting, tailoring, handloom weaving and small scale entrepreneurship development. To motivate trainees to become social activists, the package also teaches leadership, group formation, communication and community mobilisation skills. Prevention Home Totals Graduates are empowered to conduct awareness Girl trained on women empowerment 60 campaigns, in particular about the methods of traffickers; Missing / Found 55/18 stand vigil in their communities; detect warning signs Human trafficking cases initiated 2 and prevent trafficking. Their success demonstrates that vulnerable populations are beginning to understand Rape cases registered in the court 0 the magnitude and ramifications of the problem. Girls provided short term shelter 48 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 PREVENTION Chisapani, Nuwakot (Est. March 1996) in 2015 Since its inception in 1996, Prevention Home Nuwakot has so far provided training to 720 girls/women. In 2015, twenty- eighth and twenty-ninth group comprising of 38 (eighteen) trainees completed their training. During the year 2015 following major works were done: 2015 Highlights 6 rd th · Provided psychosocial counseling to 150 VDC from 23 to 25 December; more than earthquake victim girls/women belonging to 5000 people were reached out in three day's Nuwakot and Sindhupalchowk districts in the village fair. month of May, June, July and August. · From 22nd to 25th September made 451 students · Carried out an interaction and information aware on human trafficking, gender violence sharing program on "human trafficking and it's and child rights during child rights voting ill effects" for 30 women in Chisapani on 8th program. March. th · Organised three door-to-door campaigns on 6 , th st · 302 (190 female and 112 male) 30 and 31 December in Ralukadevi and girls/women/children were sensitized on human Rautbeshi VDC reaching 181 people. trafficking, safe migration and women's rights through orientation, talk programs, and · Settled 06 cases of gender violence in favour discussions. of survivors · After the earthquake 02 of door to door · Prevention home conducted regular awareness awareness program were organised in ward no- programs in Sindhupalchowk and Nuwakot 2 and 3 of Bhotechaur VDC in Sindhupalchowk districts and distributed more than 9,000 IEC reaching 150 people. (Information, Communication and Communication) materials. · An Information booth was set up in Samundratar ANNUAL REPORT 2015 PREVENTION Case Study 20 year old spends there most terrifing years of the life in India Ghazala (name changed), is a 20- Ghazala was trafficked to a brothel year old woman from Nuwakot in India, where she spent 3 years, district (location changed). Ghazala until Maiti Nepal rescued her. Ghazala dropped out of school due to weak Ghazala expressed the horror she financial conditions and started faced at the brothel during her initial expressed the helping her father in the field. Fed days. She was tied up in a distant horror she up of being poor, Ghazala decided room, which prevented her from faced at the to go abroad seeking employment, running away. Fed up of trying to brothel but she was trafficked to India fight back, she eventually gave in. instead where she spent the most As days went by, Ghazala was made during her terrifying three years of her life. to entertain 14-16 clients in a day. initial days. They were provided with energy She was tied There was a time when majority of boosting drinks so that they perform the people in Ghazala s village well. Sometimes, they didnt get up in a were traveling abroad seeking sleep at all. One day during a police distant room, employment. One day when she raid, Ghazala was arrested and later which had gone to attend a festival in the handed over to Maiti India, who prevented her nearby village, her friend introduced eventually brought her to Maiti 7 her to a guy called Kishore (name Nepal. from running changed). After spending the whole away. Fed up