Driven by our fundamental belief in the strength of families, Next Generation Nepal offers temporary care and education for children trafficked into Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu. The rescued children live in the safety of our transitional homes while the process of family reconnection begins.

The NGN search teams travel for days on foot through the remote mountain villages of Nepal to find the families of trafficked children and provide news and photos of their children. We work to reunite these children with their families, conduct thorough assessments of village conditions and family capacities, and monitor child visits, all in an effort to permanently reunite as many children as possible with their home communities.

The hope for Nepal’s trafficked children is found in our three Core Programs:

Reconnection
NGN Search Teams find families of trafficked children in remote regions of Nepal.

• Without help, parents have little hope of ever finding their children once they have been taken and trafficked to Kathmandu.
• Children lost to their parents are at much higher risk for abuse, domestic slavery and sexual exploitation.
• Children with living parents are being put up for adoption illegally by traffickers

Reunification
NGN Reunification Team returns trafficked children from Kathmandu to their families and rural communities.

• Children have the right to be raised in their own family whenever possible.
• Culture, traditions and native languages are lost when children are cut off from their families and communities.
• Stabilizing economic forces in a child’s life, such as inheritance of familial land and eventual marriage, can only occur when children are living in their own communities.
• Nepal society is over 90% agrarian; the future of the country depends on village development. The next generation of Nepali’s must be raised in their communities to learn agricultural and other village-centric skills.

Prevention
Working in collaboration with local and international partners, NGN develops focused efforts to stop child trafficking at its source by targeting the root causes. With improved educational, economic and health access in the rural villages, families will be less vulnerable to traffickers with false promises of education, safety and a better life for their children in overcrowded and polluted urban centers.

• Early data and experience points to the lack of educational opportunities in villages as one of the main reasons parents risk the lives of their children by sending them with child traffickers.
• By focusing on improving educational opportunities, NGN hopes to target one of the root causes of trafficking and give parents incentive to keep their children safe at home in their communities.
• Working to develop the village through education will give NGN a platform to raise awareness of the dangers of trafficking within the local community.