HAVE YOU JUST LISTENED TO OUR BBC RADIO 4 APPEAL WITH SIR RICHARD STILGOE?

In it, you will have heard the heart-breaking story of Ram, whose life was turned upside down when he was trafficked to the capital city of Kathmandu.

We rescue children like Ram and take them to a place of safety. Ram is now working as a chef, but there are thousands more in Nepal who need our help. Your donation will help us to rescue and care for more children. You can listen to the Radio 4 Appeal here.

And don’t forget, every donation up to £20,000 will be doubled – so twenty pounds becomes forty and forty pounds becomes eighty.

In Nepal, we estimate that there are over 100,000 children working in hazardous situations.

These children are extremely vulnerable and often suffer from physical, emotional and sexual abuse. We rescue children, keep them safe and reunite them with their families. Child Rescue Nepal has rescued and rehabilitated over 850 children but our work is far from over. We want to end child trafficking in Nepal and we won’t stop until every child is free.

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Child Rescue Nepal is one of a small handful of charities that physically rescue children from traffickers in Nepal.

With more people globally exploited for hard labour than at any other point in history, we know our work is desperately needed. Child Rescue Nepal is on the ground, removing children from factories, restaurants, hotels and construction sites where they are held captive. We take the children to our safe house and provide them with medical care and counselling. The next step is tracing their families and safely reuniting them, providing ongoing support where necessary.

So far we have rescued over 850 children and reunited the majority of those children with their families. We have also prevented 50,000 children from being trafficked through our education programmes. But there are thousands more who need our help.

Conditions in Nepal mean that children living there are at particular risk of being trafficked.

As one of the world’s poorest countries, a quarter of Nepalis are living in poverty [1]. The developing economy is heavily reliant upon agriculture and tourism making Nepal particularly vulnerable to events such as the devastating earthquake of 2015, which claimed 9,000 lives and destroyed 500,000 [2] homes and livelihoods all over the country.

In addition to this, it is common in Nepal for children to begin working at a relatively young age to boost their family incomes. These factors combine to make Nepali children easy prey for traffickers, or families simply looking to improve their incomes and not realising the danger that they are sending their children into.