It has been over three months since the Himalayan Mt. earthquake,  affecting several countries...India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bhutan.  It may appear that life is back to normal in the absence of news and media reports...but far from it.  On site stories paint a much different scenario for many young women.  Keep checking on our blog to learn more....

Himalayan Mt Earthquake Increases Risk of Girl Trafficking

Due to the earthquake tragedy in the Himalayan Mts. girls are now at a very high risk of being trafficked across the borders from villages  where family members are injured, missing or dead. Purveyors come seeking vulnerable families  to prey upon during this time of crisis. Please help us to help these families!

People all over the region are spending their nights sleeping outside, in fear of aftershocks. In the capitol of Kathmandu and in remote villages, many are still living outside due to severe damage or total destruction of their homes.

The capitol city of Kathmandu and suburbs reported the most deaths at 1500, and those injured numbered close to 3000. Total deaths throughout the country are now reported as 5300 and injured as 10,500. Small villages were affected drastically as many are without food, water, shelter and electricity. There is difficulty in reaching the injured in these remote villages.

According to the Kathmandu Post (April 26,2015) most villages suffered many casualties, especially in the eastern part of Nepal, near the Indian border. Specialized search and rescue teams have arrived from other countries and are attempting to reach casualties in these remote areas.

Some Cultures Passive About Violence Against Women

A recent World Bank Report says," A culture that is passive towards "Violence Against Women" will not flourish".

Many countries in the Himalayan Mts. reflect those research findings.  This last winter in India there was mass sterilizations of women, of whom many died and others became deathly ill. The doctor performing the procedure on hundreds of women at the rate of 83 per hour supposedly used the same uncleaned  unsanitized instruments on all of them!

On the same day in a capitol Himalayan Mt city that  a march took place, for stopping violence  against women,  a female police officer was murdered.(Himalayan Times Dec.11,2014)

"Despite political rhetoric, of women's empowerment the state of Nepali women remain bleak. " KTM Post Editorial by Suresh Pranjali

TRAFFICKER GETS 25 YEARS

Today's Kathmandu Post reported that a trafficker received a sentence of 25 years for trafficking girls across the Nepal border into Tibet. "Maiti Nepal" a non profit organization specializing in locating girls, rescuing and prosecuting had rescued thirty some girls who had been trafficked in this manner.

Kin Trafficking Girls on the Rise Governments Must Intervene

Recently we learned of more and more incidents where relatives were trafficking girls as young as ten years of age. This presents many problems as they do not allow the girls to be adopted or put in a children's home although they are newly orphaned and  relatives aren't  willing to support them. The trafficking relatives over rule the relatives who do desire to place them in children's homes or with a permanent guardian. A Himalayan Mountain newspaper group reported an alarming increase in this activity within families! (Feb 21, 2014 Nuwakot). Unfortunately many times the police are of no help whatsoever even in cases where young girls are being gang raped by relatives and neighbors and are at high risk of being trafficked. The female officers must submit to the higher ranking male officers so their work is very stressful as they cannot take action without superior's approval and direction. So they must shamefully look the other way.

It has been awhile since we have posted anything as we have been extremely busy with feeding street girls and working with governments to try to provide housing and care for girls as young as five years of age. Sometimes laws passed to assist children actually make it more difficult to help those in crisis and rescue them to a safe house!We hope to have some new exciting news to post soon. So keep checking back!