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Our Current Cause: From July through September, 2006, we will be supporting dZi Foundation a US-based non-profit that is committed to helping indigenous mountain communities of the Himalayan region, with a focus on Nepal and Ladakh, India. Perhaps their signature project is their Friendship House in Kathmandu, Nepal, a safe home for young girls at risk of being trafficked into child labor or prostitution. Here are a few articles about the situation in Nepal, dZi foundation, and some of the girls they help at the Friendship House. | |||||||
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Helping the people of the Himalaya 
The dZi Foundation is fully committed to helping indigenous mountain communities of the Himalayan region. Not just when times are good, but especially when times are tough. Despite the current political unrest in the world, the dZi Foundation has a thoroughly reliable infrastructure in place for money flow and coordination of all our projects. In our opinion the only way to accomplish security and success is to be established with locals in villages and communities of each project. Jim Nowak, our Executive Director, also spends 3 months a year, between his bi-annual trips, reviewing the success and efficiency of ongoing projects and investigating new projects.
The case story of Ganga and Jamuna is unfortunately similar to many of the Friendship House girl's backgrounds. Their father died of liver cancer two years back after suffering from it for many years. Their mother's health condition is deteriorating day by day and now suffers from breast cancer. Their eleven-year-old brother lives with their mother, but their fourteen-year-old brother left home for India to search for work almost six months back...
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In 1997, dZi founders Kim Reynolds and Jim Nowak learned of a small safe house for girls which was faltering financially and organizationally. Young girls in Nepal are at risk of being sold for child labor, "temple prostitutes", or into the Indian sex trade, ultimately being physically and/or sexually abused. Jim and Kim were instrumental in keeping the house funded, eventually relocating the home to a better facility and an all-Nepali staff.