Over the last few days, our volunteer coordinator Meagan traveled with art kits to Nepal. The art kits went to the 32 children living at Raksha Nepal, an incredible organization that works to free women and children from sexual slavery. These children live in a building with no running water and sleep on the hard ground because their beds are filled with bed bugs. They all have big dreams and are incredibly inspiring survivors of some of the worst human rights abuses we have ever heard. Raksha has given us permission to use these photos and has asked that we share some of the children’s stories.
Mohit (showing me that he made a sleeping person) was abandoned in Everest Region at age 1.5 years old after his mother committed suicide following her sexual assault. His brother (age 3) kept the boys alive by building a shelter and eating dirt and bugs. The spent a year enduring starvation, hypothermia, and exposure before being rescued by Raksha Nepal.
A little princess! Her mother is a sex worker terminally ill with HIV and cannot afford the medicine. Muktah now lives with Raksha and is the youngest child there at 2 years old.The pipe cleaners were a huge hit!
