Stop Girl Trafficking

Our good friends at the American Himalayan Foundation paid a nice tribute to Parama - a RHEST team member here in Nepal. Thanks for posting her story AHF!

http://www.himalayan-foundation.org/blog/115357

Stop Girl Trafficking Star: Parama : Blog | American Himalayan Foundation It was not long after my birth that my first and greatest misfortune struck on me. Exactly ten days after my mother died giving life to me, my father fled away. Even till now he’s not concerned about me as a girl and he’s happily married again with a son. Growing up an orphan, it was not unusual for...

Read Erica Stone's report on sharing a cup of tea with some of the girls in the SGT program

http://himalayan-foundation.org/projects/fieldreport

Report from the Field | American Himalayan Foundation The newest report from our staff in the field: details on our projects as well as the people, culture and climate of the Himalayas.

It starts with a girl... : Events | American Himalayan Foundation

Girls Saving Girls : Stop Girl Trafficking | American Himalayan Foundation

A report from our friends at AHF

Dark Practices : Report from the Field | American Himalayan Foundation

A Poem by one of our SGT girls from Sindupalchowk:

Girls are the incarnation of Goddess Laxmi (Goddess of wealth)
She delivers what she says
But the violence in our country
Led to tragedy and bombing

A daughter can work
As hard as a son
If given a chance
She will make her nation proud

Girls are trafficked all the time
And I wonder why?
I know there is a reason
It probably is the lack of education

Both sons and daughters
Should be given equal opportunity
A daughter's life without education
Is full of darkness

This week's SGT hero : Maya Devi
http://www.rhest.org.np/one-rising-star/

Read about our latest hero: http://www.rhest.org.np/one-rising-star/

Our Heros | RURAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION SERVICE TRUST The death of a father is devastating for a child anywhere in the world, but the ongoing repercussions for a poor rural family from Nepal are unrelenting.

http://himalayan-foundation.org/blog/114063

A former SGT student frees a family : Blog | American Himalayan Foundation

11 January is National Anti-Trafficking Day in the USA. Visit the American Himalayan Foundation blog to see how we help STOP Girl Trafficking in Nepal.
http://www.himalayan-foundation.org/blog

Blog | American Himalayan Foundation