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<\/a>Education is the answer.<\/p><\/div>\n
Education is the way…\u00c2\u00a0 This year the program supports 9,500 girls in 400 schools across Nepal and not one has been lost to trafficking.<\/p>\n
If you live in the San Francisco area, we would love to invite you to attend the Stop Girl Trafficking evening on April 30<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Or, for info and reservations, call:\u00c2\u00a0 (415) 288-7250. <\/strong>If you don’t live in San Francisco learn more on how to give here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Special guests include: Dr. Aruna Uprety<\/strong>: the visionary Jon Krakauer<\/strong>: the advocate, author Sue and I visited with Dr. Aruna and a group of the girls last May while we were in Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell you how impressed we were.\u00c2\u00a0 It costs so little to give a girl a whole new life!<\/p>\n And, say hello to Sue while you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at the dinner.<\/p>\n Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 11, 2012 For the past seven years, my wife, Sue, and I have been supporting the American Himalayan Foundation’s Stop Girl Trafficking program. IMG has been working in Nepal for a couple of decades now and cares deeply about the people there.\u00c2\u00a0 Trafficking is a huge problem. \u00c2\u00a0Every year, as many as 20,000 girls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSiddharth Kara<\/strong>: the global perspective
\nHarvard Fellow and author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAHF\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partner in RHEST\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game-changing prevention work in Nepal<\/p>\n
\nFresh from an investigative field visit to the trafficking villages<\/p>\n