Safe from Harm Appeal

This Christmas, thousands of children in Nepal’s orphanages are suffering hunger, regular beatings, and constant fear. Trapped in a relentless cycle of anxiety and abuse, they’re desperately lonely and longing to escape a life of imprisonment they never chose.

The shocking truth: Astonishingly, 85% of the 10,000 children in Nepal’s orphanages have at least one parent who’s still alive. But many were trafficked from poor remote areas into profit-making orphanages, lured under the pretence of a better education. Stripped of their basic rights to a childhood, a family, safety, and love, they face a grave injustice.

This is a child protection crisis. We urgently need your help.

Six-year-old Sunil* spent two unbearable years isolated from his family. “He’d cry whenever I visited,” his mother, Lata*, remembers. “If he said he wanted to go home, he’d get beaten.”

We are working tirelessly to shut down these orphanages and reunite children with their families. But we can’t do it alone. Parents like Lata* desperately need your support to afford their children’s basic needs. Every day a child remains in an orphanage could be another day of hunger, of beatings, of longing for someone to love them.

This Christmas, you have the power to help reunite children with the people who love them. Will you help us rescue these children and keep them safe from harm and free from fear? Donate now.