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Sita Tamang

Sita Tamang was 13 when she started work in Kathmandu cleaning restaurants and guesthouses. Keen to earn some money and possibly meet a husband, she left her small farming village in the Himalayas to seek a bright future.

At 14, a man flashed a month's wages before Sita's eyes, a down payment of the firm promise of work in Mumbai, India. Uneducated and naïve, Sita left Nepal with hope.

Upon her arrival in the capital, she was sold to a brothel. Paid a pittance, Sita was made to sleep with multiples of men each day fast becoming another Nepalese prostitute in India.

Now at 53, Sita still works in the trade but in Kolkata, India's most notorious prostitute city. She is working to educate young Nepalese girls how to escape prostitution or at least prevent their bastard children from becoming dependant on the trade. She offers counselling and educational opportunities.

"If I had had an education when I was a young girl in Nepal, I would never have suffered the life I have today," says Sita. "Education truly is power."

There are many Nepalese girls and women in Sita's predicament. Girls Education Nepal plans to prevent this kind of life taking a grip on young girls who deserve a chance for a bright and educated future. Like Sita, we believe education is a key to a women's future and ultimately to her ability to make a choice.