STOP Girl Trafficking
20,000 GIRLS ARE TRAFFICKED IN NEPAL EVERY YEAR: SOLD OR LURED INTO SLAVERY.
A girl just like your daughter at age 10, just like you or your sister at age 12, just like your girlfriend or wife at age 11, just like your mom at age 8.
Our goal: $10,000 to save 100 girls from bondage. Not 10. Not 20. But 100 girls. For one year.
On May 29th, my friend Denise Sauriol and I will run the Everest Marathon. Yes. Everest.
It’s quite the journey we’ve decided to embark on. Quite the ego trip as well. There’s no denying it. The thing is, it wouldn’t feel right to make this just about bragging rights and a few Instagrammable moments.
Nepal is a country with its share of challenges. One of the poorest in the world, over 5 million of its citizens are undernourished; living on less than $0.50 a day. Here, having a daughter is often seen as a drag on a family’s resources; selling a girl into bondage was, until 2008 legal.
Unfortunately, though no longer sanctioned by the government, 20,000 GIRLS ARE TRAFFICKED IN NEPAL EVERY YEAR: SOLD OR LURED INTO SLAVERY.
STOP GIRL TRAFFICKING (American Himalayan Foundation) saves Nepali girls from being sold. They talk families out of selling their daughters into domestic and sexual slavery, and into saving the girls through education.
For about $100 a year, you can keep a girl out of slavery by paying for her tuition, school supplies, uniform and tutoring. YOU CAN SAVE ONE GIRL FROM SLAVERY FOR ONE YEAR FOR $100.
Get a corporate match and make that two girls. Only by the lottery of birth have the girls and women in your life not faced slavery in Nepal. Just click on the link below…
Michelle Gallardo
Chicago news gal with an addiction to pro-cycling, Ironman, running, travel and food. Always in search of a new adventure, way to torture myself.
