The SA Foundation and Serve Nepal
 
I. About Us
II. SN Spirituality
III. SN Anonymity

“If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. However, if you have come because our liberation is bound with mine, then let us work together." 
...Aboriginal Woman

I.  About Us
The SA Foundation (Servants Anonymous) is a Christian organization dedicated solely to providing a world-wide solution to the sexual exploitation of women and children. The SA Foundation has developed a program model to provide the resources and support necessary for women and children seeking to leave a life of sexual exploitation.

Serve Nepal has adopted its program model and its principles of operation from the SA Foundation’s international program model for developing countries. This program model has been designed with careful consideration for the culture and practices of Nepal. By partnering with local organizations, Serve Nepal delivers its programs and services with utmost consideration for the sexually exploited women and youth of Nepal.

The SA Program Model for South Asia

Overseas, the SA Foundation’s World Services division has established relationships with Christian leaders, and other organizations committed to addressing problems related to sexual exploitation in their country. All partner organizations established under the SA umbrella are managed by national representatives and are established to reflect/address the cultural uniqueness of each country, while at the same time preserving the mutual values established by SA.

The SA Foundation’s World Services division is instrumental in assisting, supporting and providing support and, in some cases ongoing funding to newly developed SA-based organizations. Each new SA-based organization is developed with a long-term vision for financial self-sustainability.

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“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me…. I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25: 35-36, 40.

Serve Nepal is a Christian organization striving to meet the needs of the oppressed, isolated, abused, and hurting… with love, acceptance and hope.

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Complete anonymity of the women and children who come to us for help

To protect the women and children who come to us for help, Serve Nepal will not use their actual stories and/or faces on any SN brochures, marketing materials or other media or public relations publications.  None of faces shown in this website are those we work with.  We resist the tendency to label these women and children as ‘sex worker’, ‘drug addict’, ‘victim’, ‘child prostitute’, etc. We recognize numerous mistakes and regrets in our own past as well as injustices that have been done to us and we are grateful that we are not labeled according to these events.  These women/girls are not prostitutes. They are mothers, daughters, sisters and nieces, who for various reasons, have been prostituted.

Our job is to love them for who they really are. We aim to find the little girl inside, before she was abused, sold, and prostituted and help her to realize her true value and self-worth. With our help, these women do go on to become successful mothers, wives, and contributing members in their own communities. If we sell their pictures and stories for the sake of our funding needs we could potentially jeopardize their reintegration back into society thus contradicting the very purpose for our involvement in their lives.

Complete anonymity of staff at all levels of media

Serve Nepal's principle of anonymity also applies to our staff and leaders, and is carefully followed to ensure that those who work for us are motivated by a desire to serve others and not by their own personal gain or glorification. We do not want to take credit for the work that these women and children must do to regain control over their lives. Thus we prefer to emphasize 'the work' as opposed to 'the worker'.

We acknowledge that our commitment to anonymity is difficult to understand let alone accept, especially at a time when technology can put a 'face' to any situation worldwide. We also acknowledge and respect that those who donate may want to see pictures of the woman/child whom received their support. Please allow us to challenge you on that. How does revealing their identity benefit these women and youth or expedite their recovery and safe reintegration?

Please remember that our work addresses a very sensitive issue, one that carries a lot of social stigma in all societies, not just South Asia. Shame and ostricization are not associated with those who are hungry or poor. However, it is always and inevitably linked with anyone who has been labeled prostitute, drug addict, and/or AIDS patient.

We are deeply humbled by your desire to support our work and our women. We welcome your involvement. Aside from the anonymity of our participants we practice complete transparency in all areas of our organization. Please contact us should you wish to learn more about us or if you would like to view any of our financial statements, organizational structures, governance issues, etc. We look forward to hearing from you.


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