“A skill in a woman’s hands is independence she can carry for life.”
Sneha Karma Foundation
Impact
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Dr. Seuss
Author
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
Dr. Seuss
Author
Trafficking is modern slavery — and girls are its most common victims
Child trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of children through force, coercion or deception for the purpose of exploiting them — a lucrative criminal industry, second only to drug trafficking, that generates billions of dollars a year. Every country is affected, whether as a place of origin, transit or destination. Girls are disproportionately the victims, because a society that devalues girls creates the desperation and invisibility that traffickers depend on. At Sneha Karma we refuse to accept a world in which a child’s worth is measured by what others can take from her.
Why girls are trafficked
Poverty and desperation — some families give a child away for financial sustenance. The coercion is often subtle, working within families and communities whose economic position leaves them few options.
The devaluation of girls — where a girl is seen as less valuable, her disappearance matters less. Out of school, unskilled and socially isolated, she is the easiest to exploit.
Forms of exploitation — there are two broad types: sex trafficking and labour trafficking. Labour trafficking includes domestic servitude, field labour, factory work, child soldiers and bridal and reproductive slavery.
What Sneha Karma does
Child trafficking is a social evil Sneha Karma Foundation works to alleviate. Every child deserves to be educated and to have a bright future, free of exploitation. Through our programs we develop girls’ skills and empower them so they can thrive and contribute positively to society — and, in the process, become far harder to exploit.
Prevention begins with the very things traffickers rely on a girl lacking: an education, a skill, a voice and a community that values her.
“The greatest good is what we do for one another.”
Mother Teresa
Founder, Missionaries of Charity
Trafficking is the extreme end of the cycle
Trafficking is not an isolated crime. It grows from the same soil as the other causes — and it is what happens when every protection around a girl has already failed.
Gender Inequality — the root cause: girls who are devalued are the easiest to exploit.
