March Update
Dear friends and family, March has been pretty busy but also a month where it seems like my life is starting to normalize. At the beginning of the month I attended an International Women’s Day 5k. Almost all our women came and we had such a fun time together and this allowed me some time to get to know the women outside of work. Another big thing this month is that Beauty for Ashes (BFA) has moved into a new and bigger office building. We are still working on settling in and getting everything set up. I feel as though I should take some time here to remind you all what BFA is exactly. So BFA is a business that employs women in Nepal. The original idea was to hire women who in the past had been sexually exploited and needed a job after they had been through counseling and aftercare. In Nepal there is a stigma against these women and many of them often fall right back into the sex trade. Today BFA still aims to employ these women but we haven’t stopped there, they also hire women ...