Madhu Regmi counts her siblings in the thousands. "I don't know what it's like single family or nuclear family," she said. Madhu and Yuvraj Pokhrel were raised in an orphanage in Kathmandu among the survivors of human trafficking, and are now learning how to topple the trade that has harmed many of their friends. "It is a very big issue in Nepal, and not just trafficking overseas now.
" He says the trade in humans is second only to drugs and weapons. Maiti Nepal founder Anuradha Koirala says a child arrives at the facility every day. "They say poverty is the cause of trafficking. I say no … It is not poverty, it is due to education," Koirala says. "If in Nepal there was free education, compulsory education … then we could not have had this issue.