Providing Refuge, Restoring Dignity
Help ENLACE Nepal director Tina Magar equip communities to protect girls like Anjali Badi* from human traffickers.
*For safety purposes, the name has been modified.
The only real solution to human trafficking
ENLACE Nepal director Tina Magar noticed that efforts to “rescue” victims of human trafficking inevitably failed. Solutions that don't proactively offer hope and opportunity lead kids back into servitude. The only real solution, Tina concluded, is ENLACE's holistic approach to community, family, and individual transformation—and she was right!
Here are some of the kinds of projects your gift can support to create thriving communities that human traffickers are powerless to prey on. Then scroll down for more context and stories!
How ENLACE Doubles Your Impact!
To ensure long-term sustainability, all ENLACE projects are locally identified, managed, sustained, and at least 50% locally funded. Your gift will be matched by a community contribution of the same or greater value in the form of materials, labor, and locally raised funds, doubling your impact while ensuring sustainability for years to come.
Meet Tina Magar
ENLACE Nepal founder and director Tina Magar grew up in North India, where girls like her faced severe discrimination. In college, she learned that 70% of sex workers in North Indian brothels were from Nepal. Every year, thousands of Nepalese girls were promised jobs, only to be sold to human traffickers.
After she got married, Tina and her husband Sam followed a human trafficking ring to their ancestral country of Nepal,
where human traffickers promised parents jobs for their children abroad only to sell them into illegal labor markets.
After seeing "rescue" strategies lead children right back into servitude, Tina concluded that the only true solution was ENLACE’s holistic approach to community, family, and individual transformation.
Tina was right! Human traffickers are powerless to prey on girls like Anjali when they live in thriving communities with opportunities for education, employment, and a hopeful vision of the future!
Meet Anjali Badi*
Anjali's last name, Badi, represents a caste of people so marginalized their name is used as an insult. A lack of a sense of self-worth and financial and relational poverty are just a few factors that render children vulnerable to the empty promises of employment made by human traffickers.
“I was scared to attend class,” Anjali shared. “My classmates looked down on me. I thought I didn’t have the right mind to understand the subjects we studied. Going to school made me cry.”
*For safety purposes, the name has been modified.
Conditions were not much better at home. "We didn't have enough to eat," Anjali continued, "and my family always fought. Almost all of my relatives drink and quarrel."
Anjali needed refuge, and Tina knew exactly where she could find it. She was already working with Anjali's community to transform the lives of girls just like her through after-school care designed to restore dignity and self-esteem through tutoring, counseling, friendship, love, and a shared vision of a hopeful future.
After-School Care is Not Enough
Transformation begins with children feeling loved and getting the help they need to succeed in school—but that is not enough. Kids also need families that can earn a living and communities that work together for a better future. Below are three components of a thriving community immune to human traffickers.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure projects like safe drinking water or irrigation for agriculture are often a pre-requisite for further development. With ENLACE's guidance, they offer communities an opportunity to learn that they can change their conditions by working together.
Livelihood
Projects like seamstress training or chicken, pig, or goat livelihood projects supplement household income. Programs that create ways to earn a living from home have a disproportionately positive impact on women while offering children a vision of a productive future.
Community
ENLACE's approach is to engage whole communities, from the most marginalized families to local government agencies. Communities that work together to strengthen their institutions and improve lives flourish and dream together.
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