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Enabling prison-released women and their children to regain an independent, decent and dignified life in society by technically and spiritually empowering them.

To conduct a thorough monitoring of Nepal's prisons, identify women prisoners nearing release, and to build network of like-minded organizations including jail authorities and through them ensure accessibility of prison-released women to SETU Nepal halfway home.

Ensure social justice by building a gender egalitarian society where women and children irrespective of their caste, culture, creed, religion and faith live harmoniously an independent and dignified life.

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SETU Nepal - Bridging the Gap
SETU Nepal serves as a bridge for Women re-entering society after imprisonment. Women occupy a very low position in Nepali society, and Women leaving prison may be subject to extreme social, economic and emotional hardships. In addition, many of these Women are illiterate, poor and without family ties. These issues affect not only them, but their Children. SETU provides a residential center with training and other services so that these Women and their Children have stability as they make their way back into the world.

Women of Nepal occupy half of the total populations, among them only few of them are economically and socially independent. Most of them either depend upon her husband or depend upon their parents for their livelihood. Majority of women are illiterate and unskilled which make them more vulnerable. Women who are released from prison face more problems then other women because society and their family don’t accept them. They don’t have any income source through which they can feed their children and themselves. In this situation, they choose wrong path in order to support their children. In most of the cases, they either involve in prostitution or do other crime to return back to jail fearing the new struggling environment them have to face.

Identifying their problem Setu Nepal was established in 2001 by group of young professionals and foreigners. Its main objective was to help those women and their children who were release from Nepal’s prison. After helping those women SETU realized that not only ex-prisoner but also conflict victim women are also helpless and vulnerable. They too need skill developing training for their living. So, it started to help not only ex-prisoner but also conflict victim women and their children too. It started to help conflict victim women from 2006. Setu has successfully completed six years with in these years it provide various training for ex-prisoner and conflict victim women in order to make them independent. They took Sewing, Cooking, Driving, Pig farming, Computer, Beautician and mobile repairing course through SETU. Children’s of these women are also getting education through sponsorship program. Currently SETU has four resident women and six children and we are supporting total 21 children.