Nepal

Photo: This proud and brave group of girls rescued from human trafficking early last year is our latest class of graduates from the rehabilitation home’s trade school. Today we bring you a news round-up from our programs in Nepal. First, we want to share some older news we never got a chance to report on

Photo: Anita Jaisinghani, founder of Queen Scarves, seen with our survivor artisans who have just begun making scarves for her scarf company, to benefit the girls and their program with fair trade proceeds. We currently have 11 girls (ages 16-25) living at our Nepal trafficking rehabilitation home, nine of whom recently completed their skill development

Photo: Girls at the orphan home are happy to have successfully completed another school year. We are happy to report that 17 of the children (ages 9-18) who live at our orphan home took their end-of-school-year exams in March, and they all received excellent scores, advancing them to their respective next grade levels. To prepare

Photo: New rescues are happy to be at our rehabilitation home learning skills that will help them stand on their own financially after graduation. We are happy to report that in December, 10 new girls and women (ages 16-31) were rescued from tragic slavery situations by local volunteer groups with the help of the police

Photo: These girls are happy to have graduated from their skill development coursework in which they became proficient in many skills such as tailoring. We are happy to report that in June one of our orphans, 17-year-old Laayra*, graduated from our orphan home in Nepal with some of the highest exam scores of all 26

Photo: Our Nepal orphan home graduate, Divsimar. Today we are overjoyed to report that one of our orphans, 18-year-old Divsimar*, recently graduated from our orphan home in Nepal with the highest exam scores of all 26 children in his 10th grade class. Because Divsimar is 18, the government requires him to move out of our

Photo: Girls at our trafficking rehabilitation home were happy to benefit from the therapy of photography as an art form during a 3-day workshop. We are happy to report that all 20 of our orphans (ages 7-17) started back to school in April. They are hard at work studying their native Nepali language, math, science,

Photo: Some of our recent graduates proudly holding their coursework graduation certificates. We are happy to report that 7 girls (ages 16-22) graduated from our Nepal ‘She Has Hope’ trafficking rehabilitation home in February. All of these girls are planning to start their own tailoring businesses in their home villages. We hope that with their