Launching a

Campaign to prevent
Child Trafficking
through Education:
Our Journey
Taught Not Trafficked
Country Director, Childreach Nepal

#TaughtNotTrafficked
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

How did this all start?

November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

The voices we listened to

140

Boys and men

Girls and women

120
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40
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November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

Our Findings:
the Causes of Child
Trafficking in Two
High-Risk Districts
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

Economic poverty
Causes?
Lack of skills
Lack of capital
Effects?
Additional costs of education unmet
More tempted by salary advances
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

Poverty of Information
Lack of information about what happens
to a child who is trafficked
Too few truthful stories get back to
communities
Children and adults dont know about
their rights or how to advocate for them
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

Huge barriers to education

Demand-side:
Children dislike long walk to school, abuse and teasing on way
Children dont want to go as school is not fun or interesting
Parents dont understand the value of education
Supply-side:
Lessons in chalk and talk mode : non-participatory
Teachers too strict and regularly hit children
Lack of girl-friendly schools toilets for menstruating girls; female
teachers; teachers who encourage girls to participate
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

The majority of trafficked or

missing children have dropped out
or been attending school
infrequently.

What is the link?

November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

The Three
Links
between
Education
and
Trafficking
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

What will we do
differently?
We want to urgently address the root causes to
prevent child trafficking from happening in the
first place.

November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

SCHOOL PUPILS
will:
Complete primary and
lower secondary school
Share what they learn
about trafficking and
related issues
Go on to get higher
income jobs
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

TEACHERS will be:

Motivated
Incentivised
Teaching more effectively
Using active teaching
methods
Advocating locally for
education
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

ADOLESCENT
GIRLS
will:
Develop life skills
Recognise trafficking
traps
Return to school
Advocate for girls
education
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

PARENTS
will be:
Newly skilled
Linked to govt subsidies/
microfinance
Earning 50% more
Able to train others
Supportive of child
rights
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

DEO AND VDC

STAFF will:
Have capacity to manage
agencies
Listen to local needs
Work for better service
provision
Be more efficient
Work against falsifying IDs
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

LONG-TERM IMPACT ON COMMUNITY

Children no longer
trafficked

November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Educated,
safer and
prosperous
communities
emerge

Associated
benefits of social
transformation
and economic
development

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

We cant achieve this alone.

Please get involved. Today.
Give us your time, talent or treasure
Spread the message however you wish, in
person or online using #taughtnottrafficked
www.childreachnp.org
www.taughtnottrafficked.com
tshering@childreachnp.org
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD

Taught Not Trafficked

Country Director, Childreach Nepal

Thank You
November 2014
Tshering Lama, PhD