Nepalese 'meat market'

NEPAL.  HELPING THE WEAK

Message from New Light Nepal mission

Dear friend and partners of New Light Nepal,
Thank you very much for your Love and Support for the different ministries of New Light Nepal. God is so good to bless the work of our hands.
As we write this update, our country is facing economic blockades and all people are suffering because of a shortage of petrol (gas), diesel, and cooking gas. South Nepal is suffering due to tribal protests, as well as the fact that all government offices and business have closed down. We are not able to submit our reports to government offices.
But, praise God, all of our activities and ministries are going well and we have been experiencing the security and love of the Lord. development, we have found that there are groups of

A PARTICULARLY NASTY DEVELOPMENT. 

We have found that there are groups of traffickers whose strategy is to bring prepubescent girls to town and give them hormone injections for 2 months to force them to develop so they can be sold into sexual slavery even younger.

We want to break this cycle. Please pray for us. .

Let us share one girl’s trauma.

 

One Girl Saved from Traffickers!

By "Mothers Against Trafficking" program leader.

Let me give you some background, then tell you a story. New Light Nepal is working hard to cut trafficking off at the root in Thokarpa VDC (an area smaller than a district), which is in Sindhupalchok. Thokarpa is a large VDC with several mountains; it is hard to travel from one corner to another. People's lifestyles, outlook, and social class differ greatly from ward to ward within Thokarpa.

We make heart-wrenching discoveries and have very difficult personal encounters each time we start new Mothers Against Trafficking groups in Thokarpa. BUT WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENDING THIS CRIME IN THOKARPA

  

 

I want to share a story with you. One of our Mothers Against Trafficking (MAT) leaders, was returning after a MAT class from a village when she heard a mother beating her daughter in a house. The girl was crying.

As she walked up to the house she heard the mother saying, "Why don't you go to town? We will get money regularly from that man if you go to town with him!" The girl pleaded, "Mother, please do not send me away. I want to live in the village. I heard that my friend had a bad life after she went to town." The mother threatened her, "I am not hearing any of your excuses! You must go to town!"

----- called to the mother and tried to intervene in the situation. "Auntie, please listen, sending your daughter to town will not help either of you. Instead, your little girl will be in a very bad place." The mother replied, "I don't want to hear anything from you. I have decided to send her to town. This is between my daughter and me. Why are you interfering in our business?"

----- left the house, but her heart was pained, and the next day she brought this case to her MAT class. All the mothers in the MAT decided go there and talk to the mother.

The mother argued a lot in the beginning, but after the women in the MAT spent a lot of time talking with her, she started to cry. She admitted that she does not have any other option than to send her girl with that stranger, in order to feed her family. Her old house was destroyed in the recent earthquake, and since then, they have struggled greatly.

The mothers in the MAT decided to help them with their immediate need by providing food. They asked NLN for a scholarship for the girl to be enrolled in school, so she will not be forced to go to town with the trafficker. These girls are brought to town to be “domestic helpers” but sold to brothels in Kathmandu or India.

More than 60 mothers have already graduated from our 3-month MAT curriculum  in that area, and they are fighting the battle against trafficking on the front lines. We need prayers and support to cut trafficking off at the root. Thank you!

Please pray:s. For the current situation in Nepal to be resolved soon so people will feel at ease in their lives.