The Women's Protection Center (WPC Nepal) runs human trafficking awareness programs in rural villages, partnering with local communities to educate residents about prevention. These programs, lasting ten to twelve days, include visits to schools and women's groups. Traffickers often deceive families by promising "better life" opportunities for their children, leading to trafficking in Kathmandu or across the border to India, with victims seldom returning home.
Trafficking into the brothels of India and domestic and sexual slavery in the Middle East is a historic trade, with between 5,000 and 12,000 girls aged from as young as 7 years old disappearing from Nepal every year. An estimated 200,000 girls from Nepal are working in brothels in India. The average lifespan of a girl working in prostitution in India is just 34 years.
That's what kids find when you welcome them to the Women's Protection Center safe home in Hetauda. The WPC Nepal safe home is for kids (mostly girls) who have nowhere else to go in Hetauda and the surrounding regions. Two kinds of kids come to live here: Kids who get rescued from human trafficking, whether that's sexual slavery like brothels, or labor slavery like circuses in India and Nepal. Kids who are at risk of being trafficked due to poverty, neglect, or abandonment
The solution to human trafficking in Nepal and in other parts of the world isn't always complicated. It just takes the will to act and a few resources to make it happen. The Women's Protection Center in Nepal operates a vocational training program that empowers women who previously lived in fear with the skills and opportunities to own a business and provide for their own needs. This approach is far better than a typical "aid" program.
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