Stop Human Trafficking, Rescue, Educate & Empower

At this time we have been helping people who were affected by the massive earthquakes. We will soon get back into our regular program which consists of rescuing young girls from sex trafficking and providing vocational training to them. Further we help educate the local communities and raise awareness about the human trafficking dangers.

Here is a description of our efforts after the earthquakes.  

Mass tractors carrying supplies. This area is very hard to travel to, and to get into because of the remoteness and lack of access to roads. Our people basically have to make roads for tractors as they drive them. In the meantime, they have to push the trucks by hand. This is not the final destination though. Our next step is finding people and mules to carry supplies for different villages. Many international aid agencies can't handle the terrain and never make it here. It is too remote and treacherous for them. Also, the people from the aid agencies can't speak the language, nor do they understand it. Monsoon season has now started, and the landslides are scaring the villagers who are already fragile due to the strong earthquakes that took everything away from them.

We had people carrying and delivering the earthquake supplies. We had porters and mules. We sent 1,000 bags of rice, each weighing over 66 pounds, to Laprak village. We had another 200 bags delivered to Khorla village by 270 porters. One group was sent to Kerauja with 160 bags of rice and  80 mules. Another group of porters were sent to Lapsibot and Yamgau villages with 350 mules carrying 360 bags of rice, water pipes for clean drinking water and the other supplies. We have reached over 15,000 families and households and provided over 2 million meals. Thank you all for your support!

We had 15 girls in our shelter continuing their education and vocational training. However the April 25, 7.8 earthquake raddled our shelter and became unlivable. Most of the young women in our shelter were from Gorkha district where epicenter was. Currently they are with their respective family members in their villages. Before they left for their village, our fifteen young women currently located in our Katmandu shelter, were busy feeding as many homeless and hungry in their neighborhood. They were able to return to the shelter after several nights outside in the makeshift tarp-tents in monsoon like conditions earlier this week. -Have they done something like this before? No, however the success JHF has had is due in large part to the hard working board members in 2 countries. We have solar power in place, computers, water and food, in the JHF shelter when so many in Katmandu were in blackout as a result of the power outages. Our success also had to do with the infrastructure already in place, capable and tenacious members of our Katmandu office board of directors, coupled with the U.S operations expeditiously setting up the go fund me account, as well as directing donors to our JHF website. Our success also has had to do with the many generous contributions, no red-tape, familiarity with Nepali and Gurung language, and translation as well as knowing the lay of the land and how to get things done. Years of experience being trekking guides in Nepal has brought them a wealth of experience critical in emergencies. Currently, in Katmandu we have Kaylan Gurung handling operations including arranging transportation including helicopters and buses to transport supplies. He has made acquisitions of tents, rice, sugar, hygiene products and so forth. We will be brining those 15 young women back to our shelter later this year to continue their education and vocational training.