Our Partnership with Next Generation Nepal

Orphanages gained massive popularity during Nepal’s civil war & the 2015 earthquake as families desperately tried to remove their children from dangerous areas. Unfortunately, a promise to protect and provide for these kids was never actually granted. These children became a part of a massive illegal trafficking scheme that involved more than 18,000 children. These kids were living in unregistered and dirty homes, without enough to eat, being untreated for medical conditions, and enduring physical and mental abuse every day and left for further trafficking into commercial sex work or exploitative labor as they get older. 

One Day’s Wages partnered with Next Generation Nepal (NGN) to rescue children who were trafficked to illegal and abusive orphanages. Rescued children temporarily resided in NGN’s transit home while the staff searched and located their families, which sometimes took months. All rescued children received appropriate health care, trauma therapy, and education until they could be sustainably reunified with their families. Reintegration with their families only took place once it had been determined by NGN’s reintegration officers that the child would be safe and cared for. NGN also collaborated with local governments and police to help take part in the monitoring of local returned children, with the goal of keeping them safe for the long term.