Transit homes are located at major Nepal-India border towns through which many of the children and women are trafficked into India. These border towns are potential points where a little vigilance can have significant payoffs.
Objectives of transit home:
- To work with police and concerned agencies to intercept potential victims, and apprehend traffickers.
- To provide a safe transit shelter home for short stays for intercepted and released children women.
- To ensure safe passage to their respective villages.
- To provide information on safe migration.
Transit Home serves as a safe shelter to survivors rescued from India and also to those who have been intercepted at borders while in the process of being trafficked. As per standard operating procedures the girls stay in the Transit Home for some time and move over to Maiti Nepal's other establishments for further assistance.
In addition to providing a safe home, Transit Homes are engaged in counselling, facilitating medical check-ups to determine health status, motivating survivors to identify traffickers, and building networks and pressure groups.
Maiti Nepal has eight Transit Homes, located in Pashupatinagar, Kakarvitta, Bhairawaha, Birgunj, Biratnagar, Nepalgunj, Pashupatinagar, Mahendranagar, and Dhangadhi.
Since 1993 to 2006 Maiti Nepal intercepted and prevented 8914 vulnerable children and women from Nepal India border from being trafficked.
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