SOS Bahini was first established in the year 2004 and this with the declared objective to prevent and/or alleviate worse forms of exploitation, violence, discrimination and human trafficking of girls, adolescents’ and women in Nepal!

“SOS Bahini” was founded by women from the community of Pokhara and the “Board” is composed by women from all walks of life, The Board-Members are nurses, lawyers, social-workers, teachers, business-women, house-wife’s and doctors.

SOS stands for “safe our sisters” and “Bahini” means “little sister” in Nepal.

70% of the Management and our TEAM are belonging to the female gender, and whenever possible we are employing women that are belonging to our target-groups.\

We are taking the most vulnerable, girl orphans/semi orphans and destitute single mothers/widows with dependent daughters under our wings. We provide the best possible care in a strictly non-violent environment and this in the beautiful and peaceful settings of our “Eco-Village” that was constructed in the year 2013 and completed in the year 2014.

We are “trailblazers” in Nepal by admitting beneficiaries of the female gender only and by admitting their Mothers as well. Not only are we caring for these Mothers, but they in turn have become precious members within our organization. Each one of these Mothers is the nucleus of one of our “IFAP” families and they are caring for up to ten girls in a harmonious and semi-autonomous family-environment in separate houses all of which are located in our “Eco-Village”.

SOS-Bahini” is taking great care in providing best possible education, vocational-training, nutritious food, best possible health-care, proper hygiene, psychological guidance and therapy if needed so. First and foremost, we emphasize in rebuilding the emotional body of our beneficiaries. Life thought them that they are unworthy of love and respect and this promotes fear and anger as a natural response to life. This has been stifling their lives and removing all joy. Those children, adolescents and women have a lot of emotional depth to the past. Their childhood was a learning ground for guilt, shame, resentment, distrust, inferiority and all the most primal negativity they carried around with them.

It is the miraculous power of love and care that is creating the context in which children naturally blossom into their highest potential and our beneficiaries are the living proves of this! The sum of all this is that our beneficiaries develop a genuine sense of belonging and the trust and confidence that comes with it.

Hypothesis

Creation of skilled manpower by providing suitable opportunities to girls and teenagers who are at risk.

Goal

Capacity development of girls and teenagers through conservation, cooperation, participation, awareness and cooperation.

Target

To provide quality services to vulnerable girls and single women due to economic, social, cultural, religious and traditional superstitions.

Objectives

This organization will be a non-profit public benefit social organization.

• Try to control and prevent the trafficking of girls for sex and other illegal activities.
• To make children independent and self-sufficient or to carry out a long-term integrated program for this purpose, as well as orphans, orphans, street children, victims of trafficking, those who are at risk of being trafficked, those who are dependent on their parents who are in prison, etc. To operate a residential children’s home with proper education and health targeting girls who are in need of protection and rescued from special situations.
• Arranging education and employment training.
• Arranging formal/non-formal education for children up to the age of 15 years, and arranging vocational training for those above that age, orienting and motivating them towards self-reliant and secure employment.
• Search for guardians for girls who are forced to live on the streets due to domestic violence, war etc.
• With the intention of providing a family environment for the girls of the orphanage, a separate “Integrated Family Program” should be conducted by organizing a mother.
• Focusing on the community, providing necessary support including education, health, food, skill training for women who are in crisis due to various reasons in the community and their dependent children.
• To provide various awareness classes (adolescent education, health, legal) as well as necessary counseling services to adolescents, women and girls in the community.
• Conducting Bahini training center to provide various trainings to the underprivileged and single women or girls of the community who are in difficult situations to make them self-reliant.
• Targeting women and adolescents in the community against HIV. To prevent, reduce and eliminate AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, gynecological diseases and other diseases, conduct health awareness program, health camp program.
• Assisting girls who have been rehabilitated from orphanages, their families and poor and single women of the community in various business activities to make them independent. To bring about positive changes in the standard of living of children and adolescents who are in difficult situations and who have become without parents, by providing them with professional training and providing them with the necessary support to operate businesses according to the skills acquired from the training.
• In case of natural disaster (flood, landslide, earthquake, etc.) or epidemic in any place of Nepal, it can help if there is money in the organization’s emergency fund.