NCP 2025 fall campaign:

Shelter Me

 

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"This is a crisis,” NCP contact Isha Shrestha wrote.

“Without support, this shelter will be closed and these girls,

mostly between 10 and 25 years old, left without care.”

  

NCP partner Shakti Samuha runs six shelters around Nepal

for the purpose of helping women and girls who have been

trafficked recuperate.

  

One especially critical shelter is near the border with India. There, in conjunction with local authorities, Shakti helps intercept hundreds of girls at high risk of being trafficked every year, while helping survivors of trafficking heal.  

 

As of the end of September, all funding for this shelter has been cut by the international donor. This comes on the heels of USAID ending its support of Shakti last January, causing the loss of half their staff. 

 

The minimal annual budget to employ the housemother and cook and provide food for staff and residents: $15,825. NCP has taken this on as our fall campaign.

  

Can you or your group or class help these girls find shelter? We hope to raise the needed funds by the end of December. If needed, NCP will advance a grant to Shakti to cover expenses between now and then.

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Donate here or by check to NCP, 117 Nature Road, Blue Ridge,

VA 24064. As always, 100 percent of donations go to the cause.  

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Here's possible text for promoting the campaign within your group:

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Shelter Me

Our (congregation, club, team) is raising money to keep a shelter open for Nepali girls imperiled by sex trafficking. Funding for this shelter was cut by an international aid organization, and now it faces closure.

 

This shelter is one of six run by the anti-trafficking group Shakti Samuha. It is especially critical, as it is near the border with India, and intercepts hundreds of girls every year who are at risk of being trafficked or have been rescued and need healing from their trauma. Shakti is a partner of New Community Project, which has chosen this as their fall campaign, named Shelter Me. 

 

Needed: $15,825 as the minimum to employ a housemother and cook and provide food for them and the girls for the coming year. Any extra funds raised will restore additional staffing. All donations go to the project. 

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Let's do what we can to keep these young women out of harm's way by giving them a place of shelter and safety!

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