EVA
Human Trafficking, political corruption, economic divide, exploitation, these are just some of the terms that we have come to accept as the ugly, even inevitable, part of our everyday world. What could anyone possibly do about it? We feel powerless. Looking at the vastness of the problem, we often resign to the notion that there is nothing that we, ‘normal’ people can do.
EVA shows that one ‘ordinary’ person can make a difference.
EVA tells the story of Eva Holmberg-Tedert a Swedish woman who, after a chance meeting with a Buddhist Lama, learned of the child trafficking problem in Nepal, and spent a number of years going to Nepal, speaking with the street children of Kathmandu and learned the extent of the problem. She then took it upon herself to create The Society for the Street Children of Nepal and establish two homes in Kathmandu aimed at rescuing children from the streets of Nepal, providing an environment where they can be educated and grow in safety.
It was not easy; having to learn from scratch how to cope with the unique problems that come with each individual child; having to fight against corruption, bureaucracy and at times the culture, and trying to get to the root cause of the problem. But over the past ten years, through raising funds and awareness, she has created a team of Nepalese social workers, housed over 30 children permanently and put many more through education, rebuilt schools and wells after the 2015 earthquakes, provided water systems for remote villages so children could go to school instead of collecting water, tackled rural childbirth mortality, and set up many agricultural projects. Altogether she has changed the course of thousands of children’s lives in Nepal. She has worked tirelessly to help the Nepalese people help themselves, and all this while holding a full time job in Sweden.
Eva represents what the determination, ambition and compassion of just one person can accomplish. She represents the very idea that great change can happen from the smallest of beginnings; not only has she changed the lives of these children in Nepal but their children and their children’s children. She has started a legacy that is rippling throughout Nepal.
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