Indentured Daughters

How We Plan to Put the Labor Contactors Out of Business

NYOF is ambitious. Our goal is nothing less than to eradicate the custom of bonding children in Nepal. Although our resources will not be able to do the job, we hope to interest other organizations with more funds at their disposal to help. Our plan is to move gradually to other communities where the practice is prevalent, begin our successful awareness program to turn the community against the custom, rescue a few hundred girls, and then invite other international organizations to come in to help us to finish the job. This approach proved effective in the Deukhuri Valley of the Dang District, where we have been working for several years; a large non-government organization came in to help us and saved 1200 girls in a single year. In this way, by moving from community to community, we hope to achieve our aim.

The hero of this project is Man Bahadur Chhetri, who oversees the program in Dang. He has an uncanny knack of winning the confidence of the communities in which he works, and as we experienced on many field visits, is viewed with respect and affection by the locals. He lives in the area, simply. We owe the success of this project to his intelligence, deep knowledge of the community, and commitment to ending the practice of bonding children.

But in the meantime, we are in the heartbreaking position of having to turn away girls who want to enroll in the program in our target area simply because our budget will not stretch far enough. With the help of you, our donors, we will be able to avoid these painful choices.

Please give as generously as you can. Remember, for only $100 you can change the life of one of these children forever. Click here to donate.

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