Thursday, March 13, 2008

Good Cause

Returned is a feature length documentary that follows several Nepali child soldiers including Asha, a young Nepali girl, who was sent home from the Maoist’s People’s Liberation Army after the cease fire. Asha joined the Maoist army when she was 14-years-old. For this young low caste girl, joining the Maoist was a pathway to a future with education and employment. Despite two years of being on the frontlines, her biggest concern was what would await her when she returned home. Would she turn to commercial sex work, become a domestic slave, or would she be banished from her home and forced into marriage?

Returned weaves the voices of Nepal’s child soldiers, organizations working to help them, and military leader’s from Nepal’s opposing forces, who answer the challenging questions about their use of child soldiers.

If you happen to run into anyone interested in contributing to the a good cause, please send them the following information:

Our fiscal sponsor, Documentary Educational Resources has listed our project on their donation page. So please feel free to send the link out to anyone you
think would be interested. Let them know that their tax-deductible contributions are vital in bringing this project to life.

http://www.der.org/donate/index.html#returned

Click on the [Donate] button in the "Returned: Child Soldiers of
Nepal’s Maoist Army" section.

Thank you for your interest in our documentary and for helping us with
the fund raising efforts.

I really appreciate it.

Bob

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