found the seal and returned it to the secret service. that would be kind of cool to drive around in a car with a seal on the side, don't you think? would you like that? yeah, i saw the logo find next to me. nice job, team. thank you. i'm don lemon. thanks for watching. i'll see you tomorrow night. good evening. two women united by one common mission, to save women from sexual exploitation. the freedom project presents nepal's fallen children. last year, i attended the cnn heroes awards.

i met a woman whose courage and selfless determination redefined words like bravery and dedication. since 1993, she has helped rescue more than 12,000 women and girls. her name is honorati corala, saving one person at a time, she's made it her life's mission to find freedom and redemption for thousands of women and girls forced into sex slavery. her organization is called mighty nepal, which means mother's home. >> 2010 cnn hoaro of the world is honorata coriali. >> in that moment, i knew that this would not be the last time our paths would cross.

>> the snowcovered mountains of the him lalayas are the first soilth to greet most travelers in nepal. cat man do is popular with the trekkers and tourists. most who come use it as a gateway to adventure, but i'm here for a very different reason. sandwiches between china and india, nepal is also a magnet for another kind of human traffic, the tiny nation provides a steady supply of sex slaves for the brothels of deli and mumbai. i arrived at mighty nepal to an overwhelming welcome. nepal ease people are known for their warmth and hospitality, and i was experiencing it first hand. so wonderful to be here. >> thank you so much for coming.

>> really, this is so beautiful. it seemed like such a happy, careerful group of young women and girls, but their stories would tell a different tale. it was hard to imagine that every single woman in the room had suffered at the hands of sex traffickers, pimps, or brothel owners. a recovery can take years and emotional scars can be harder to detect than physical ones and they definitely don't heel as easily. i wanted to come to learn what you're doing that is working so that i can find ways of helping share those best practices in my own country where this is also a problem. >> she says that there are no job opportunities in the

village. the trafficker says there is a job in the city, i will give you the job, and we believe, we women in nepal believe quickly it is right, this is happening. >> one of the things that we, my husband and i have been working on is addressing men. men's behavior, men's idea that it is acceptable to buy girls. we feel that real men don't buy girls, and that's something that has to begin. we have to re-educate our young bys. but i have to say this is a powerful, strong group of young women and your voices are very encouraging to me. i notice one young woman in the crowd who couldn't seem to muster the enthusiasm to join in. her sad look stuck with me. her name is petali. like so many young women, she had been trafficked across the border into india to work in a broth

brothel. she was rescued six months ago, but in the chaos of the rescue operation, police were unable to recover her 2-year-old daughter. children are routinely separated from their mothers to prevent disruption from their work, but also as leverage to diskrj them from escaping. this is a big day, though, because news has come that another raid on the brothel has led to the rescue of her daughter. she is expathed at mighty nepal at any minute zrb. she's both relieved but sick with concern about her safety. >> look. [ baby crying ] >> tragically, after such a long time apart, the terrified little girl does not recognize her

mother and pushes her away. reaching out to her rescuer instead. as the mother of three girls myself, it was painful to watch, and everyone in the room felt helpless. >> mami, mami. >> they took me away from the room. >> and how old is he now? too often, it's children who are abused to insure that their mothers comply with the brothel owner's orders. the woman on my right is rudeka. she had been trafficked twice, had a kidney removed, and had an 18-month-old son. >> and he's now in school, yes? >> the brothel owner's cruelty

was effective. when they were rescued and brauts to mighty nepal, the boy was unable to talk. now 8 years old, he's making progress but is still nervous sphwary of strangers. >> translator: at the brothel, i was forced to have sex with men. if i refused have do that, if i argued with them, they would burn cigarettes on my body and beat me with a stick or spill hot water on me. >> i know when you were separated from your son, that some abuse happened to him. can you tell me about that? >> translator: when we were separated and when my son cried, they burned my son's tongue with a cigarette. >> in just an afternoon, i have heard stories of suffering that would be incomprehensible to most people. but sadly, they are far too familiar to many in nepal. in order to see how this can be

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this world is too used to nominating me. >> do you know a hero? nominate them now. today, i'm with honorata boarding a plane for india, or to be precise, to take me to the border that nepal shares with india. it's across that border that thousands of nepalese girls are trafficked every year to delhi, mumbai, calcutta, and other cities. thirs journey is difficult for honorata, she's so fearless when facing human traffickers yet she's so afraid to admit her fear of flying. she said, on the ground, i am a lion, but in the air, i am a mouse. back on solid ground, she finds her feet once more and we're soon on our way to one of the 26

official border crossing along the 200,000 cilometer front tear among the two countries. i'm not allowed to cross into india without a visa, but nep leze and indians are free to pass without showing passports or id carts of any time. >> i'm actually amazed they don't do some kind of card that had to be shown. for people who work and have businesses, not to keep business coming back and forth, that there has to be a better system. >> in just four hours at the border, i saw several thousand people crossing over. she introduces me to the border

guards. their slight appearance belies a furious intensity. they were all trafficked into nepal. there are 50 guards working across ten checkpoints. every day at the border, they'll intercept 20 girls at risk of being trafficked. >> can you explain to me how it works? >> the hard part was -- >> in every girl, they watch, and they watch the men also. they watch, and as soon as they catch the suspect, they keep the one, she takes the girl away, she takes the boy, and then question. after cross questioning, if they find that whatever they're saying is not true, then if it is a boy, they hand the boy over to the police station and then they take the girl and go to the transit home. >> how do they have an authority? like if they say, see a rickshaw coming, can they stop it or do they have to get the police to

stop it? >> translator: because of the uniforms, everybody recognizes, and they say they are girls from maiti nepal, we should stop them. >> then they proceeded to show me how it works. he was asking what we thought of this. it's a daunting task at such a busy border crossing like looking for a needle in a haystack. the odds are stacked on the sides of the traffickers. the guards know the suspicious signs that could identify potential traffics, but catching them could mean questioning innocent thousands every day. >> when i see maiti nepal, i say, look. >> this is the grandfather, and the father is looking indian, and i tell her, read this, and

the grandfather is saying, i told you not to read anything that is neppalese. so don't read anything that anyone asks you. >> offering young girls food or drinks laced with drugs is a common trick of the commoners. >> when honorata has any suspicion about her travelers, she's forthright in her questioning. >> he's such a liar. he said he's bringing her shoppi shopping, and now they're all going -- >> this is not honorati. >> come on. >> india. >> translator: she's saying this is her mother? >> yes. and this is her daughter. she's in holiday, in virginia to meet her father. but she was taking something for medication, and i called her brother. >> so everything is okay. >> while there never seemed to

be anything wrong, any suspic n suspicions raise the questions in maiti nepal. the police act largely as onlookers. they'll respond when they leave to get a trafficker, but they don't have the resources to themselves look for traffickers. >> the police of maiti nepal has been very good. we have been working with the police. there are 26 fathers between the official borders, but sometimes we have problems, but then you cannot put all the police into one basket, right? >> it is unnecessary to create that image. fast forward. >> he would think it would be nice if we had dumation. >> so you know who is coming in and out. >> they're going to start the day after tomorrow. >> what is it that we could ask that could help what you do? >> there is a problem of coming

through, and coordination of nepal and asarite for the policy. >> more people. >> more government power. >> gaait. >> maiti nepal estimates they have rescued about 1,200 girls and women. ironically, that's how many women they rescue each year. some girls ask not to be identified, terrified that the stigma of their ordeal would make them social outcasts. >> they're happy to come home. >> happy, yeah, but also traumatized. the youngest is 15. she was 12 when she was trafficked, and the brothel owners forced her to take hormones to transform her body into that of a grown woman.

>> they will wash their faces and travel back to maiti nepal. >> maiti nepal has a transit home near the border where rescued girls can begin to recover from their ordeal before being transferred to the main rehabilitation center in cat man due, and in some cases, face the trafficker in court. >> every time, every week or 15 days, you have to go with a girl. so it takes one year to one 1/2 years to testify. during the stay with us, they do some training for the life skills. that's how we have integrated them into society. >> the society isn't always ready to accept them back. >> she's frightened of the stigma. please do not tell my husband that you're my -- i was in maiti nepal india or in maiti nepal

here. >> it's believed there might be as many as 35,000 young girls working the red light district alone. >> translator: two men took me, they said they would teach me a job and give me job literature and training. >> he's been gone for two years and how old is she? >> translator: i don't know, i think i'm 17, 15? i have a son who is 7 years old, with my in-laws, so i would like to go back to my in-laws'. she said, my in-laws will also not take me if they know i have come from working like this. >> translator: i swear on my son, i will never do this kind of work again, but please, don't say that.

>> another pain inflicted by the traffickers' cruelty. a mother desperately wanted to see her son again, but terrified her family will turn her away when they find out what she's been through. being shunned by loved ones is not an uncommon one, but what tips the balance from uncommon to rejection. the answer for one trafficked girl recently rescued lies in a remote village six hours from katmandu. and the 100% natural whole grain oats can help lower your cholesterol. you are so sweet to me. bee happy. bee healthy.

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dawn breaks over the himalayas. it's a beautiful start to the day in some of nepal's most remote villages, but beauty doesn't put food on the table, and smf othe country ps most beautiful scenery is home to its poorest people. the average income in nepal is a little over $200 a year. that's 57 cents a day. in the remote areas, it's often far less. poverty is the means by which traff traffics track they prey, luring them to work with promises of opportunities in the big city. it's the velg that we're headed to visit today. maiti nepal wakes up as usual to the sound of sweeping. prayers are offered and breakfast is taken, and in the corner of one of the communal

bedroom, a young woman is packing her bag. today, tuli is going home. it's a six-hour drive in some mountains to reach tuli's village, and as our vehicle struggles up the dusty road, there's plenty of time for me to hear her story. >> so how is it that she ended up being trafficked? what was the situation? >> as usual, she had come for shopping in the city for her brother. and then she never returned home. so first they thought that she was in the relative's house, and they looked in the relative's house, and they could not find ler. then they knew she had disappeared somewhere, so they didn't tell anybody, they just let it go and later on they found out she was trafficked when they got the message. >> after six months in a brothel

in calcutta, she took a risk and asked one of her clients to help her. he agreed to phone her brother, and with maiti nepal's assistance, he traveled to india to help her escape. >> is she worried about how she's going to be treated? >> translator: the family will treat me very nicely, i do know that, but i do not want the world to come in and see. >> i'm hearing that this is your favorite tea place. >> translator: so you have to come and show us. >> tuli wants to stop at a favorite eating place halfway through the journey. the town has some fond memories for her, but it's also the place where she met her trafficker. >> why is this area particularly bad for the trafficking?

>> this way, the buses go to katmandu, so they all stop here for food and all that. and here is where they pull up with drugs and then they make them go to sleep, and they get up in katmandu and then they say, you're going to work, and then that, again. >> and are these possibly girls that are just on the bus? >> not everybody. the one woo was trafficked who was lured and brought up to here. >> it's a sipster cycle and a well-planned trap. naive young girls are duped, drugged, and then taken away to the city. so why is this area where her village is, you said it's one of the highest risks for trafficking. >> it's not only from now. it's been since 1926, it's been a high-risk area, and the people who live in this area are a certain group of ethnic people. they are very, very naive.

they believe on everybody, and they trust everybody. and they're lured into the far most employment. >> it's been a long and bumpy ride, but finally, we arrive at tuli's village. at 3,500 meters above sea levelering it's breath taking in every sense of the word. a cluster of mountain shacks clinging to the mountainside, but before we reach her home, there's a matter of 5 h00 stepso negotiate down the mountainside. among those eagerly awaiting tuli's return is a small girl. this is tuli's daughter, and she hasn't seen her mother for six months. although emotions are running

high, tuli's reunion with her parents maintains the traditional respectful formality of her culture. it's only when she is with her daughter that she can no longer hold back the tears. three generations of tuli's family finally back together again, but the first moments are clearly difficult and uncomfortable. >> thank you very much for bringing my sister. you all had to face a lot of trouble for coming down all the way. >> tuli, how do you feel to be home? >> i feel very happy. >> it's important to give survivors like tuli a voice, and my thoughts are on a meeting i have planned with a convicted trafficker. i wanted to share messages, and

if there's something you would like me to say on behalf of you and other girls, um, i would like to hear so i can pass that on. >> translator: my sister has taken lots of pain and nobody should be left like that. everybody should be punished. they should be life in prison for everybody. >> tuli is one of the lucky ones. rescued and now home with her family. anuradha's job is to protect the thousands of girls who will fall prey to the traffickers every year, and the work never ends. on the way back, we stop at another village. >> we need to understand the villagers and they stand close like this on the walls on every house. they have gathered here, around the mesnjs here.

>> the critical part of her work is creating awareness about sex trafficking in the more remote regions of the country. ♪ villagers are entertained with songs, dances, and speeches all designed to educate them of the very real danger that is all around them. >> liberty is nepal. >> liberty is nepal. >> go nepal! >> we continue on our journey, another six hours winding through the mountains. the sun sets long before we

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>> it was wonderful and amazing to sit in a room with so many survivors and yet at the same time, extremely painful. the power of their voices that outsiders don't very often get a chance to hear because we need to hear their stories. we need to know they're not just a statistic. >> i think the incredible beauty was in seeing what a nrk uradha who herself is a survivor of domestic abuse. the power of a survivor-led

organization, and what i found is those seem to be the most effective. >> attention. >> anuradha founded maiti nepal in 2003 with her $100 a month teaching salary. from humble beginnings, it has grown into a nationwide non-profit organization housing and protecting up to 100 women every day at its main complex in kathmandu. the center provides counseling, training, and legal assistance to help prosecute cases against traffickers. and there is a school for about 300 children from newborn babies to teenagers. some of whom were trafficked along with their mothers, and others who were rescued from the streets before they could fall into the hands of traffickers. 12 kilometers north of kathmandu

lies a different aspect of the care provided by maiti nepal's team -- the hospice. the scars of human trafficking are never merely skin deep and the pain and suffering often extends to future generations. amid the seemingly idyllic image of rural family life, there's another morning routine to be performed, one which casts a darker complexion on the picture. this is the daily lineup for medicine without which many of these women and children would die. they all carry the hiv virus and many have other related illnesses. in most cases, a legacy of time served under slavery in the brothel. the medicine is expensive and maiti nepal struggles to maintain a supply of life-saving drugs. it was here at the hospice i met gita and heard her story.

>> she is gita. >> hello, gita. >> and gita has been with us for last several years and she was rescued from india from delhi with her son. she was trafficked with her son. >> gita's story is a familiar tale of trust and betrayal, an orphan lured to india by the false hope of finding her parents, but instead finding herself in a life of hell. >> so she's 12 years old. she's been married off at 10, abused. she's had a baby. and now she's being forced into prostitution, and so how long was she enslaved in the brothels before she was rescued? >> for two years she was in the brothel, and then she was again rescued as a minor. >> gita is living with hiv following her time in brothels where condoms were not allowed. fortunately the virus was not

passed on to her son but the heartbreaking consequence means the two live largely separate lives, with gita at the medical center and her son at maiti nepal's main home. as a mother, i look at you and hear your story and i just -- it's just almost impossible to comprehend. do you feel hopeful? do you feel that your life has still possibilities? [ speaking foreign language ] >> anyway, i am very hopeful because i have my son, for him i have to live so i try my best to live for him. >> do you miss seeing him? [ speaking foreign language ]

what did she say? >> she says, well -- i am very -- even if he's not with me, the child is with you, so i feel he's in the safe hands, so it is all depends on how you keep him. >> with her time, what is it that would be her dream? >> she says, what can a person with multiple disease like me do? sometimes i think that i'm just hopeless, but at times again i think maiti nepal is teaching me craft and i think i can survive with this craft also.

i have so many things to say it's all in my heart and i am very happy to share it. and thank you for coming all the way and taking my story and sharing with everybody. >> thank you. can i have a hug? i promise to do a really good job of sharing this so that we can end this so that it doesn't have to keep happening to other girls. one can't fathom the pain and suffering these women have endured until you hear their stories firsthand. really, how can this be allowed to go on? i was due to meet someone who might be able to answer that question -- the prime minister

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after four days working with anurandha, two people hope to give us insights into the issues of sex trafficking in nepal. the first is one of the most powerful people in the country, nepal's prime minister. the second, a convicted sex trafficker sentenced to 12 years in prison, but even before we can reach the prime minister's office, the scheduled primeman ster interview has been rejected. it's something i want to raise with the prime minister, but first where want to question him about why his country has become such a haven for hymen

trafficking. >> clearly this is an issue that required the support of the predecessor but also that we can't do it alone. we need the support of the government and in my process of trying to educate myself on what is happening here in nepal, we're interested in know your position and knowledge of what is happening here with trafficking. >> actually, since the time that our society that came to domination, there is a patriarch al leadership. and they are about 30% of the population. >> i spoke with a police inspector, and i found that he knew quite little about the human trafficking. and he has little resources or

manpower in identifying the traffics especially with it often being over the border. >> that's part of the problem, how big it is. and we hope to double up more at those type of points, so that everything could be screened in the world. >> education is not mandatory in nepal. it's because there is so clearly a gender discrimination if a family of four has two boys and three girls, they will send the boys into the world in a very vulnerable position, and i think if education became mandatory, we could reduce the risk of this. >> thank you for this important observation. everything is saying something for the budgetering al, also, a

budget discussion i have already directed the finance minister to think about. and let us try to get to at least a couple of things by the time of the eighth grade. a compulsory education so everybody can be educated. there are many families with difficulties in america, particularly in your part of the world. that girls should be given more concessions or different morals. >> is there a percentage of the annuity that goes to school. >> we have a trafficker who was willing to speak with us, but we couldn't get access to thave th permission to talk to him. >> armed with the prime

minister's support, we head to the prison with our interview with the trafficker. the man committed in 2001 of trafficking over 1,000 women is now approaching his release date. he has studied for two degrees and has become a teacher. he now expresses remorse and says he would like to help maria. when we arrive at the jail things don't go as we expected. we're allowed to bring the cameras but not record the discussion. >> when i spoke to the prime minister -- >> it is not the concern of the prime minister, only the department of the prison management. >> it's a meeting.

i'm not allowed to talk to him. >> today, we cannot have anything like that. >> it's unfortunate that now we will have to share that we have been shut down. >> i'm so disappointed because it was an opportunity to, i think, add a level of texture, education, and so many great insights into how we can combat this issue from the trafficker's point of view. so i think it's a great law not only for us but for the country. today's events have taken a toll on anurahnda. we will continue our efforts to get access to the trafficker, but time is running out as i

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it's my final day in nepal, and the rescued girls we met at the border have arrived add cat man due to begin their rehabilitation. time for them to say an emotional good-bye to another remarkable woman who has been with them since the time of their rescue. trevini runs the rescue foundation. 1 of the few indian organizations rescuing women trafficked into forced prostcushion. every year, her team frees 300 to foun hr girls from institutions and return them to nepal. 60% of them are under 16. they risk daily violence, protests, and violence from the

pimps and protesters. >> during my stay here, i have heard some of those real stories. >> before i came here, i had given up hope that i would ever be able to do something for myself, for my life, but now i know i have the courage. i can do something for myself, and i can take care of my child. now i'm working here as a gardener, and my son goes with food. >> there are signs of hope. one of the most painful moments of the week happens within hours of my arrival at maiti nepal, my young mother with the daughter six months after she escaped from the brothel. the terrified young girl didn't even recognize her young mother. happily, by the end of my visit, things have changed and i was able to see mother and daughter beginning to bond once more.

and there was a surprise for gita. invited to travel from the hospice to watch a musical performance by the children at the marina paul center, she sees her son in the spotlight dancing on stage and has an opportunity to tell him of her pride. at the same time in india, marina paul was continuing its work, coord natding a raid on a brothel in the city. a stream of cowering men flee, and a female officer dishes out her own judicial retribution. trivini and members of the rescue foundation are joined by police. as they pick their way through the hallways, the slaps continue to ring out. even though brothels are illegal in inld yeah, for most of these men, it's the only punishment they will receive.

and after these men traveled for days just to risk the chance to rescue his sister, after the embrace and tearful reunion, the girl is able to call her parents and tell them she's safe. the more opportunities i have to meet the women face-to-face and hear their stories, it just continues to deepen my commitment, and i look at you and just how tirelessly you work. your dedication, and the effort that it takes, really, to really fight this, and i sometimes am like, i'm just doing so small. >> you have heard, now you see it with your eyes. when you see that pain, that gives you a feeling. i have felt that energy before. but the fuel is the children who give me their sorrows, the pain that they go through. >> and i think on one hand, you

can feel it as a mother, and i think you can also feel it just as a woman. if you feel that pain, that you never want to see a young girl taken advantage of, and these girls here were so innocent. they really, really do have such a sweet innocence. >> they have gone throw sow much pain, and still they have the hope, we have seen such a large amount of pain. they still have to end in the hope that one day we will end it. >> and i believe we can. a week after i left nepal, i continued the fight against human trafficking with my husband, we launched the dna foundation, real men don't fight rough campaign. our goal is to reduce the global demands and change the cultural perspective behind girls and sex. human trafficking is more common in the u.s. and nepal than you might think.

though my time in nepal is brief, my experiences there only strengthens my resolve. the young women and girls i met have left a lasting imprint. one by one, they battled unspeakable cruelty alone, but now, surrounded by other survivors in the safe haven they call mother's home, you can feel the renewed hope these girls have for their future. but anuranda and nighty nepal can't save every child on their own. anuranda once said, just imagine if that was your daughter standing there. what would you do? how would you fight?