Empowering Freed Kamlaris (NEPAL)

An amazing transformation is happening in Nepal. Vulnerable girls who were rescued from the Kamlari system of child slavery are now free — and they’re becoming powerful young women who are leading the way to a better life for themselves and their communities.

In 2000, NYF started a battle to end the act of Kamlari, a centuries-old arrangement of obligated subjugation inserted in the way of life of country Nepal. Our Indentured Daughters Program was twofold: to safeguard the young ladies who had been sold into subjection and to nullify the work on going ahead. More than 12,000 young ladies, some of whom had been subjugated subsequent to the age of six, were protected and came back to their home groups, profoundly injured and without any training. 

NYF's Empowering Freed Kamlaris program (EFK) helps previous Kamlari young ladies get to be solid, upbeat and autonomous young ladies. The project likewise empowers the social and monetary advancement important to guarantee that no young lady will until the end of time turn into a casualty of Kamlari. 

The EFK program served 8,000 young ladies this previous year, with 18 full-time staff giving authority preparing, tutoring administrations, and money related and business administration preparing in conjunction with other NYF programs.

Leadership Training

EFK staff gives preparing in initiative aptitudes, authoritative administration, political proficiency, bookkeeping and budgetary education, enterprise and business administration for the 4,860 young ladies who have made the Freed Kamlari Development Forum (FKDF).

Economic Development

There are currently 40 FKDF business centers in Western Nepal with more than 5,300 individuals. We gave $30,000 to begin the center credit reserve, which FKDF individuals control, and more than 750 young ladies have effectively propelled their own particular organizations. Community individuals have as of now reinvested $40,000 once again into the advance asset.

Career Training and Counseling

The EFK programs works intimately with Vocational Education and Career Counseling project to bolster the liberated Kamlaris. Our staff gives organized advising sessions and evaluation tests, and after that helps young ladies select in top-quality preparing programs for a wide assortment of professions. 82% of graduates are as of now utilized — an exceptional accomplishment given that the unemployment rate in Nepal is 40-46%.

Psychological Support

With preparing and supervision from the staff of our Ankur Counseling Center, FKDF peer advocates give enthusiastic backing to previous Kamlaris, alongside a referral administration for the individuals who require more offer assistance. There are presently 60 FKDF peer guides and five aide instructors directing 175 month to month care groups with 2,500 members.