Background The Project

2003 HimRights report – before we started the Animal Farm project

Paurahi falls within the district of Rautahat, which is considered to be one of the main trafficking-prone districts of Nepal. HimRights started its activities against human trafficking in the Paurahi area in the year 2000, and it has succeeded in reintegrating all the young women rescued from sex trafficking.

Many women and girls have been trafficked to various brothels in India. Among them, eleven young women are living miserable lives with hardly any livelihood options. These girls have no education or skills to earn a living. Out of these eleven girls, seven live in miserable conditions and desperately need some kind of assistance for sheer survival. With no survival strategies in sight, these girls definitely fall into the “at risk” category and are very likely to go back to prostitution or be trafficked again.

Zeena wanted to participate in the project but disappeared from the village before the funds arrived. We fear she may have been trafficked again or gone back to the Bombay brothel out of her own will.

If you know her whereabouts please contact us urgently.

We have conducted several meetings with these girls but without funding we have not been able to offer them any support. These girls have expressed their desire to live an economically independent life and, given an opportunity and appropriate assistance, they are ready to work hard. In so far as the local market, goat/pig/poultry farming seems a viable strategy for income generation.

NEEDS

The target women are earning around Rs. 30-50 by working in the stone quarries, under very difficult conditions. They have not been able to provide proper education and care to their children. Four of these girls’ husbands are unemployed. Their family members do not support them; they are ostracized in their own society. Any Income Generation support would be of tremendous help to these girls who have a strong desire to work hard and make a place for themselves in society again.

1. Pig farming (8 piglets) requirements for 4 survivors: Rs 45,600 or $616. This includes fodder for six months

2. Poultry farming (100 chickens) requirements for 1 survivor: Rs 15000 or $ 202. This includes fodder for 2 months

Goat rearing (3 goats) requirements for 2 survivors: Rs 20,000 which is $270.

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