Border Monitoring

Along the open border between India and Nepal there are 26 official crossing points and an unknown number of unofficial ones.  it is across these borders where the estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Nepali women and children are trafficked each year.   
 
What is Border Monitoring?
Border monitoring is an effective way to intercept victims being trafficked across a national border.  Trained employees watch for suspicious activity in order to identify possible trafficking cases.  Along with local police, the border guards question the potential victims and suspected traffickers looking for conflicting stories or dubious behavior.  As the situation warrants, traffickers can be prosecuted.  Currently we operate around 10-15 stations across the 1600 mile Nepal-India border.

Principles of Our Border Monitoring Strategy

• Subcommittees - Tiny Hands establishes relationships with churches along the border and forms subcommittees that function as local boards to oversee operations, provide accountability, and deal with challenges faced by the border employees. These churches advocate for change among the local population by bringing about awareness and mobilize the local population towards action.
  
  
• Flexibility - the total number of border stations we operate changes regularly as we add stations where we believe we will find success and drop those that have proved unfruitful. We have a running list of potentially effective border sites at any given time that will be opened if a current station proves ineffective over the course of time. This helps us make our limited finances go further to stop trafficking and helps us identify the locations most used by traffickers.
  
  
• Tiered Funding - not all locations are equally effective in stopping trafficking. Because of this we maximize the effectiveness of each dollar we spend by sending more money to increase staff, resources, and advocacy at border sites where our efforts are most fruitful.

Tiny Hands also provides aftercare for victims of trafficking through our Safe Homes and Women’s Empowerment Center.
 
We believe, above all else, in prayer, and a God of who hates injustice and loves mercy, and in Him we rely.