Free and Educate Enslaved Nepali Girls
Help free Nepali girls from indentured slavery, a practice referred to as “Kamlari.” In a centuries-old custom, impoverished families have sold their daughters, as young as six-years-old, into bonded servitude. Working closely with local communities, NYF helps liberate these girls and bring them home. As an alternative to the money earned from selling their daughters, NYF provides each family with a piglet, goat or sheep. These animals are highly valued in this culture, and, when sold, provide as much or more profit than the daughter’s labor. Your gift to NYF will help to ensure these girls are freed from the Kamlari custom, are returned home and are given the opportunity of an education, which for most of them is only a dream.
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The Need
In parts of Western Nepal, many indigenous families subsist as farm laborers. Unable to make ends meet, thousands of them have been forced into a desperate trade - selling their daughters to work in faraway cities as bonded servants. Some of these little girls are as young as six! The situation is tailor-made for abuse. Many of the girls never return home, some of them forced into prostitution. The lucky ones work from dawn to dusk. Very few of the girls attend school. The fathers receive an average of $50 a year for their daughters' services, and the girls get nothing. The families don't want to sell their daughters, but they can't do without the income. Over 11,000 girls have been freed and attended school under NYF”s auspices. However, there are many more who need your help.
About Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF)
Partner since January, 2009
Established in 1990, the Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF) is a U.S. based, non-profit organization devoted to bringing hope to the most destitute children in the beautiful but impoverished country of Nepal. With a personal touch, NYF provides them with what should be every child’s birthright – education, housing, medical care and loving support.