The Maiti Nepal, Kanchanpur, has rescued 54 girls from Gaddachauki and other border points in Kanchanpur district in the last six months while they were being trafficked to India.

The Mahendranagar based Office of the Maiti Nepal, an organization that has been working against human trafficking, received 133 applications asking to find their relatives missing from different places. Nine among the girls received in the border points and different in areas in India have been handed over to their families, said Maheshwari Bhatta, District Coordinator of Maiti Nepal said.

Likewise, the Maiti Nepal rescued 50 girls who were taken to India for trafficking alluring them of foreign employment in different Gulf Nations.

Published on: 18 August 2014 | The Kathmandu Post