November | 2013 | CEDAR Fund

Human Trafficking in Nepal

Posted on 2013/11/012013/11/04 by 施達基金會

[ePrayer – Pray for victims of human trafficking in Nepal]

Human trafficking affects over 20 million people worldwide. Women are particularly vulnerable. 80% of those trafficked domestically and internationally for labour and sexual exploitation are women and girls, and 98% of sex slaves are female.

Nepal is a high-risk country for trafficking. Female make up 86% of the total number of trafficking victims (12,000 annually) from Nepal. This is because they are especially vulnerable due to limited economic opportunities, illiteracy or low education, and low socioeconomic and cultural status. Nepali girls face dangers of being sold and transported across borders to neighboring countries like India, where there is high demand for cheap girls for sexual slavery.

On the other hand, girls also face dangers in their own communities. Within Nepal, there exists a culture of bonded (or indentured) servitude for lower-class families. Since access to currency is low, families will exchange labour for room and board, creating a bonded servitude arrangement. A family who is indebted to their landlord will often bond their daughter to him for labour. Bonded girls, some of whom are very young, often work in harsh conditions and are commonly abused physically and sexually. [UNODC, IRIN News, childreach, SIS]

Pray for victims of human trafficking in Nepal:

May the values of human life be reconstructed in all countries, families and communities , and the dignity of human be restored.
May all victims be set free and experience God’s love.
May more disciples, churches and organisations partner with local disciples or NGOs, to provide the appropriate needs, and save more victims or avoid being victimized.

Keep Praying for South Bangladesh after Cyclone

Posted on 2013/11/012018/01/02 by 施達基金會

[ePrayer – Pray for cyclone victims in Bangladesh]

On May 15, Cyclone Mahasen hit South Bangladesh resulting in many deaths and injuries of villagers. Hundreds of residential houses, public facilities, schools and mosques are destroyed. CEDAR’s partner World Concern received some relief funding and put full efforts in local disaster relief work, mainly in rebuilding houses, providing trainings on anti-cyclonic construction techniques and supplying roof materials. Thanks God! Through our partner, some of the villagers have received the required trainings and rebuilt their own house.

Pray for cyclone victims in Bangladesh:

May there be enough financial resources and manpower to complete all of the reconstruction.
May the environment continue to be improved, and the villagers gain more knowledge in disaster alert.
May the villagers have a chance to know God from the relief work done by our Partner.
May all the injured and the families of the deceased receive healing in God’s love.

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Pray for the Sojourner in Yunnan Baoshan

Posted on 2013/11/012018/01/02 by 施達基金會

[ePrayer – Pray for the Lisu in Yunnan]

CEDAR cooperates with the Social Ministry Deaprtment of a church in Yunnan Baoshan, targeting the disadvantaged people and communities in helping them to live out a dignified life.

Yunnan Lisu tribe originally lived in the barren mountains, some of them came from Myanmar. In order to escape the bad situation, they are living in a long wandering life, surviving on short-term jobs. They have no identity, no land, don’t know the language thus not self-sufficient. Since they live in poor sanitation environment and are lack of medical care, diseases spread quickly and widely, and infant mortality rate and maternal dystocia are quite high. In spite of all these unfavorable factors, between the mountain of Gan Ding and Gao Li Gong Shan lives 66 families of disadvantaged people, representing more than 400 adults and children, who are all Christians.

Pray for the Lisu in Yunnan:

May they receive social security by having a legal status, having the basic dignity and identity, and no longer live a wandered life.
May there be enough resources and manpower to improve their hygiene, to provide medical care, to give basic education, and to make agricultural cultivation possible.
May the long-term problem of food shortage be solved, and everyone can have enough food to eat.

Approximately 1,500 people will benefit from this project.