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Give a gift that matters: a donation in your friend's name. This gift will help to rescue a girl in Nepal from virtual slavery as a servant in a house or a dish

Give a Piglet/Goat

To save a bonded girl

  • $19.00


Problem

Thousands of families in rural Nepal have been forced to sell their daughters, some as young as six, to work in faraway cities as bonded servants. The situation is tailor-made for abuse. Many of the girls never return home, some of them forced into prostitution. 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.

The Gift

This gift will help to rescue a girl in Nepal from virtual slavery as a servant in a house or a dishwasher in a tea shop, far from home. In addition to protecting her human rights, it will provide her family with a piglet or goat which they can raise and sell for the same amount their daughter would have earned. By giving the girl's family a means of income that is an alternative to selling her as a laborer, your gift will enable her come home to live with her family and attend school. These girls are usually the first females in their families to receive an education! This program also has a micro-lending component, which instructs the mothers on starting their own businesses. Thousands of girls, newly freed and empowered, now attend school under the auspices of the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF). There are thousands more who need to be rescued.