Overview

Introduction

The trafficking of girls and women to China through the Rasuwagadhi border poses a significant threat to both government and non-government organizations engaged in anti-human trafficking efforts. These individuals are trafficked to Kerung, China, where they face exploitation in the entertainment industry, particularly in places like restaurants and dance bars.
Over the past eight years, Maiti Nepal has been actively addressing this issue in Rasuwa district. Their efforts include establishing a border surveillance booth, and transit home, and implementing various community mobilization activities since 2015 AD. Key activities involve border monitoring, providing shelter services to intercepted girls and women with legal and psychosocial support, facilitating family reunions and reintegration services, and conducting lobby and advocacy meetings with local government and district-level stakeholders to address human trafficking issues.

Major Achievements of 2024

MN Transit Home Rasuwa

• 93 girls/women who were intercepted were reintegrated safely to their families.
• One missing complaint was registered.
• 1,604 people received the information on anti-trafficking issues, domestic and sexual violence, and
  safe migration, provided by the team.
• 93 vulnerable women and girls received shelter support and psychosocial counseling from Maiti Nepal Transit Home. 38 of them were under the age of 18 and 55 of them were above the age of 18.
• 19 applications against domestic violence/GBVs were registered at Transit Home Rasuwa, one
  of which was referred to the local government, and the other 18 were resolved after interaction
  with her family.
• 93 women and girls received psychosocial counseling in the year 2023.