HCC Distributes Anti-Trafficking Comics as Human Trafficking Awareness Month Begins

Anti Trafficking Comics

HCC Girls Reading Anti Trafficking ComicsSince 2013, January has marked a time when the international community comes together to reinforce the importance of spreading awareness of and prevention methods for human trafficking. On December 31st, HCC staff continued to spread awareness of human trafficking to the most vulnerable constituency in Nepal: school-aged children.

In partnership with Cause Vision, a media company dedicated to developing informational materials for the needs of individual communities, HCC has distributed anti-trafficking comics to schools and communities across rural Nepal. On December 31st, HCC staff distributed the anti-trafficking comic CHAMELI GOES TO SCHOOL to the Shree Janajyote H.S. School in Banepa, rural Nepal. 55 students in grades 6-10 received comics to help them learn how to identify and avoid potential trafficking situations. CHAMELI tells the story of a Nepali student who is trafficked to help students and communities recognize common strategies traffickers use against vulnerable children and families.

Anti Trafficking ComicsCHAMELI GOES TO SCHOOL intends to educate children and communities about the very real danger of human trafficking in a non-threatening way. With adequate information, children and communities are better equipped to prevent human trafficking. Human trafficking still remains a massive problem in Nepal, with hundreds of thousands of Nepalis trafficked within Nepal and abroad. The open borders between Nepal and India provide relatively easy routes for traffickers. Current estimates place 200,000 Nepali women and girls currently trafficked and working in brothels in India. HCC seeks to bridge the information gap in rural communities by providing important safety information in a non-fear-inducing way.

HCC aims to continue distributing comics to even more schools and communities across Nepal in 2018.

Finally the day arrived and we had to arrive at the venue by 3. We rushed to the models and did the final fittings. By that time, Dinesh Uncle, Hira Aunt and Bruce Uncle had arrived. As my sequence was on the 4th we had a huge rush backstage that let me meet them only for a brief minute and we couldn’t even click a picture together. Show started at 7. After the third sequence we had the models change into our designs. Finally, our design was on the runway, and we walked at the end of the sequence with our showstopper, Simpal Kharel. While walking on the runway, there were a huge number of audiences, included; designers, press media, journalists, photographers, ambassadors, etc. After our sequence, we went backstage and we really had a roller coaster of emotions. All those sleepless nights, stresses, no meal days and all the difficulties we went through were finally over. It was worth everything. This concludes my three years of learning and we had the chance to showcase it to the crowd and people. After our sequence we finally had the time to breather. All along these past three months it felt as if somebody had put on something in our neck as we were suffocating but now it felt as if it had been let go. We could breathe in peace. 

After the runway we had a huge feast and that tasted like the best meal that I had for the entire life. 

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