Asha Nepal is a small organisation in Kathmandu that is devoted to preventing trafficking and abuse of girls and women in Nepal, caring for those affected by these issues and facilitating their safe reintegration into their communities.
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What They Do
Asha Nepal aims to create awareness of the issues facing young girls in Nepal today: sex and caste discrimination, trafficking for sex, forced labour and human organs, and sexual and physical abuse. The organization does this through awareness campaigns for young people in schools and nationally through the “Keeping SAFE” Facebook page.
They care for girls and teenagers that have been rescued from sex-trafficking and abuse in our residential safe homes, providing trauma counselling, health support and education.
Where possible, they work with the children’s families in their communities, offering counselling, life skills training, short term economic support, skill development, help with job placement and seed loans for small business start-ups in order to reintegrate the child back into their families. Then they provide long term social welfare follow up support for the reintegrated children through the Family Preservation Programme.
In a few cases, reintegration is not possible or unsafe, so these children are cared for long-term in one of the organization's Foster Homes by a house mother and in a family environment. They receive education, life skills and vocational training. When they are older and able to be self sufficient, then they move into shared accommodation in the local community, still with the long term support of the social team at Asha.