A Growing Program | That first year, 32 of the 37 families with whom we spoke brought their daughters home and allowed them to enroll in NYOF’s program. In its second year, the program rescued additional girls. Now, seven years later, almost 3000 young girls and their families are participating.  Of these, about half have been rescued by NYOF and the remainder by another charitable organization we trained in our methods. This means that 3000 little girls have been brought home to live with their families and attend school instead of slaving away in the homes of strangers. Learn how NYOF convinced this community to abandon the well-established custom of bonding little girls.

We have been successful beyond our most optimistic projections. In our target area, the Deukhuri Valley of the Dang District, whereas in prior years hundreds of girls were sent off at Maghe, to our knowledge, not a single girl went off to work last year. But some almost did. Late in the day on Maghe Sakrante, a group of our returned girls heard that some girls were on the bus and about to leave for a far-off city to work as servants. They jumped on the bus and found six scared little girls, including one 10 year old and her mother, both weeping at their impending separation. The father had sold the child against the mother’s will. Our girls talked all the children off the bus and enrolled them in NYOF’s program.

These two pictures tell the tale: the first is of the tearful child rescued from the bus by our former bonded children, and the second is of the very first girl liberated by NYOF in 2000, wearing a dancing costume for a street play against bonding. She is about to finish high school, and a NYOF college scholarship awaits her if she passes the entrance examination.

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