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2011 NEWS:  3 year donor needed to set up Ashraya Women’s Centre, £138,000 over 3 yearsThe Ashraya Women’s Centre is a work in progress, created in response to needs identified through Asha Nepal’s joint research project into the long-term effects of trafficking on women (to be published by Terre des Hommes in autumn 2011).
 
It started in 2008 as Nepal’s first free weekly clinic, held at the safe haven of Shakti Milan Shamaj, to care for the day-to-day health problems suffered by HIV-positive women and children and their dependents. The clinic is run by Smriti Khadka with support from visiting volunteer doctors and healthcare specialists. Provision of service and most medication is free.
 
Now we are expanding the clinic to reach 300-500 women and children affected by trafficking each year. The aim is to support their physical and mental health needs, offering counselling, therapeutic care, non-formal education, rights and HIV/Aids training, job creation, advocacy and a place to drop in when life and the fallout from being trafficked become too difficult to face.
 
This is a major project, for which Asha Nepal is actively looking for donors to fund for its first three years. Subsequent running costs will be raised from renting out clinic and consultation rooms and the meeting space when not in use. We need £138,000 over those first three years to get the project underway. The funding will also cover a mobile clinic to support the many returnees living outside the Kathmandu Valley.

We desperately need donor organisations and individual supporters to fund this project. Please donate now to the Ashraya Women’s Centre.