Maiti Nepal

Maiti Nepal

Formation	April 1993 (April 1993)
Type	Non-profit organization
Headquarters	Kathmandu
Location	Nepal
Founder/Director	Anuradha Koirala
Website	maitinepal.org

Maiti Nepal (Nepali: माइती नेपाल) is a non-profit organization in Nepal dedicated to helping the victims of human trafficking. Currently, it operates a rehabilitation home in Kathmandu, transit homes at the Indo-Nepal border towns, preventive homes in the countryside, and an academy in Kathmandu.

The word ‘Maiti' has no literal interpretation in English but in the Nepali language the word ‘maiti' means the home of the girl's birth parents. The word itself holds sentimental value for the women's population of Nepal, "especially for a married Nepali woman who has no longer any right towards her parents or their property".^[1] Once a girl is married to another man, she becomes a perpetual member of her husband's family. She has all obligations to her husband and her new family. As this organization is home to all the girls, women, and children who are not accepted into their families and society, this NGO has been named ‘Maiti' Nepal to symbolize the love and affection that a girl receives in her birth parent's place.