The U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons is providing USD 672,610 in assistance to three organizations in Nepal working to combat human trafficking.
Save the Children and Maiti Nepal will get a one-year USD 197,750 grant to strengthen and expand community-based anti-trafficking strategies through awareness and safe migration initiatives.
Issuing a press release, US Embassy said the U.S. Government was committed to the fight against trafficking in persons, which includes modern-day slavery involving victims who were forced, defrauded, or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation.
Similarly, Daywalka Foundation will be given USD 465,360 in two grants: the first project is to improve the investigation, management and prosecution of trafficking cases. The Foundation will build capacity in the collection of data on trafficking investigations, prosecutions, and criminal judgments, according to the statement.
Likewise, the US will provide a USD 9,500 grant for data collection on the nexus between trafficking and foreign employment of Nepali citizens to the Nepal Institute of Development Studies.
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