Every day I am falling more and more in love with the people and children of Nepal. I wish I could bring each of you to Nepal with me so you could experience the culture and chaos. There is no one reason why I love it so much. I just do.
Yesterday we had a discussion with Jon (THI President) about sex trafficking and the sex industry in Nepal. As most of you know, this is where my heart is and what I want to do with the rest of my life. Every year 10,000 girls will cross over the border of Nepal into India to be sold into sex trafficking. She will be promised a marriage or a job, but she is decieved and usually beaten, raped, and then sold. The average age of these girls are 14-15 years old.
Tiny Hands has a border monitoring ministry. They have 13 stations arcoss the border of Nepal. They have trained Nepali women and men running to stations to look for girls who may be trafficked. Though there are police on each border crossing, they are not looking for signs of trafficking taking place. Even if they were, they are easily bribed to ignore it by the traffickers. The Tiny Hands workers are allowed to stop men and women to ask them questions and look for "red flags" in their answers. If they find that a girl is being trafficked into India they will hand the man over to the police (which sometimes take care of it, and other times the trafficker escapes) and then Tiny Hands will take the girl to one of their safe homes to interview her on exactly how she got to the border with this man, educate her about trafficking and what happens, and she also hears the gospel.
These stations are so critical because the girls that Tiny Hands have intercepted, the majority of them have not been raped or put in a brothel yet. If you can get the girls before they cross the border, you can usually prevent the process from happening all together. And that is a HUGE praise! Nepal is a trafficking source. There are not brothels in Nepal where girls are held against their own will there. You will usually find massage parlors or dance clubs that are linked to the sex industry here in Nepal- very rarely a brothel. Most of the time how trafficking works, girls are brought from a poor country and brought to a rich country to make the most money off of her. That is why girls are taken from Nepal (poor country) and brought to India( rich country).
Part of the culture here is to blame the victim. Though we all know that none of the events of being trafficked are a girls fault, she would be blamed for what happened. All of this is linked to deep spiritual roots in Hinduism.
These people of Nepal are in such need of Jesus. We have been learning alot about the Hindu religion with is the main religion in Nepal. When I walk around and see people wearing the "third eye" on their forehead, it breaks my heart. There is no hope in this religion. These people need Jesus so badly, pray that as our team walks around we won't just stick out because we are Americans, but that the people of Nepal will see something different in us, and we will show them Jesus.
The work that Tiny Hands is doing for the kingdom is incredible. I am so thankful to be part of and so thankful y'all enabled me to do this work. I wouldn't be here with out you and I am so grateful. This trip is changing my life.
Yesterday we had a discussion with Jon (THI President) about sex trafficking and the sex industry in Nepal. As most of you know, this is where my heart is and what I want to do with the rest of my life. Every year 10,000 girls will cross over the border of Nepal into India to be sold into sex trafficking. She will be promised a marriage or a job, but she is decieved and usually beaten, raped, and then sold. The average age of these girls are 14-15 years old.
Tiny Hands has a border monitoring ministry. They have 13 stations arcoss the border of Nepal. They have trained Nepali women and men running to stations to look for girls who may be trafficked. Though there are police on each border crossing, they are not looking for signs of trafficking taking place. Even if they were, they are easily bribed to ignore it by the traffickers. The Tiny Hands workers are allowed to stop men and women to ask them questions and look for "red flags" in their answers. If they find that a girl is being trafficked into India they will hand the man over to the police (which sometimes take care of it, and other times the trafficker escapes) and then Tiny Hands will take the girl to one of their safe homes to interview her on exactly how she got to the border with this man, educate her about trafficking and what happens, and she also hears the gospel.
These stations are so critical because the girls that Tiny Hands have intercepted, the majority of them have not been raped or put in a brothel yet. If you can get the girls before they cross the border, you can usually prevent the process from happening all together. And that is a HUGE praise! Nepal is a trafficking source. There are not brothels in Nepal where girls are held against their own will there. You will usually find massage parlors or dance clubs that are linked to the sex industry here in Nepal- very rarely a brothel. Most of the time how trafficking works, girls are brought from a poor country and brought to a rich country to make the most money off of her. That is why girls are taken from Nepal (poor country) and brought to India( rich country).
Part of the culture here is to blame the victim. Though we all know that none of the events of being trafficked are a girls fault, she would be blamed for what happened. All of this is linked to deep spiritual roots in Hinduism.
These people of Nepal are in such need of Jesus. We have been learning alot about the Hindu religion with is the main religion in Nepal. When I walk around and see people wearing the "third eye" on their forehead, it breaks my heart. There is no hope in this religion. These people need Jesus so badly, pray that as our team walks around we won't just stick out because we are Americans, but that the people of Nepal will see something different in us, and we will show them Jesus.
The work that Tiny Hands is doing for the kingdom is incredible. I am so thankful to be part of and so thankful y'all enabled me to do this work. I wouldn't be here with out you and I am so grateful. This trip is changing my life.
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| Our wonderful and protective guys! (Austin, Barret, Matthew, Tanner) |
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| Sweet Nepali boy in a childrens home- rescued off the street. |
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