Shelter Me

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In late summer of 2025, NCP received a message from our partner Shakti Samuha in Nepal. "We have a crisis," they told us, "an international partner has ended its funding for a key shelter near the border with India, and it will soon need to close if we do not find another way to fund it." Shakti maintains six shelters around Nepal whose primary purpose is to recuperate girls who have been trafficked, but also to educate and intercept girls who are being deceived in order to be trafficked to India or other countries. This particular one is heavily utilized, as India is the main destination for the 30,000 or so girls and women who are trafficked from Nepal each year. 

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They told us they needed $15,875 to provide a bare bones budget for the shelter, which would include a house mother, cook and food. NCP put this out to our network in the fall of 2025 . We were hopeful that we would be able to raise the funds, as this is a very compelling situation.

 

It turns out we were wrong - we raised over twice that much thanks to the generosity of individuals , groups and congregations! We included $22,000 as part of normal grant to Shakti to go towards keeping the shelter open and providing some additional services. In conversations with Shakti during our 2026 Learning Tour, we agreed to hold on to the remaining $20,000 in case they are not able to find a funding partner for next year. This will serve as a backup plan In that situation.

 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to wellbeing of these young women in their hour of need, as they would have otherwise had nowhere to turn for recuperation and for prevention.