For Churches

For Churches

Garden For Hope was started by three women — two in Cincinnati and one in Nepal — who believe that rescuing a girl out of trafficking is only the first step, and that walking with her afterwards is what actually changes her life. That work is slow, relational and unglamorous, and it is exactly the kind of thing a local church partnership is built for.

If your congregation, small group, women’s ministry or missions committee is looking for an international partner where you can see the girls, know the staff and follow one home rather than a global programme, we would love to talk.

What a church partnership looks like

Sponsor the home for a month

A congregation, small group or Sunday school class can cover a month of operating support for the Garden For Hope rescue home. You receive updates on the girls living there during the month you sponsor, and your church is named on the donor wall inside the home.

Invite us to speak

Our executive directors, Alisia Davis and Jessica Ball, will come to your church, missions weekend, women’s event or small group — in person in the Greater Cincinnati area, or virtually anywhere — and tell the story of how the home came to exist, what is actually happening to girls in Nepal, and what has changed for the girls we walk with. Request a speaker here.

Host a dinner

One of the most effective things a church member can do is open their home. A Dinner for Garden For Hope is a small gathering — your table, your friends, our directors — where the mission is shared honestly over a meal and guests are invited to give. Most of our support has come from rooms like that one.

Pray for the girls and the staff

This is not a token line. Rescue work in Nepal is dangerous for the people who do it, and recovery is long for the girls who come through it. If your church has a prayer team, we will send you specific, current requests — for named staff, for legal cases, for girls in their first weeks in the home. Use the contact form and choose Prayer as your reason.

Take a mission offering or run a campaign

Some churches designate a Sunday offering, an Advent or Lent campaign, or a VBS mission project to Garden For Hope. We will provide photos, short video, and a giving link set up for your congregation so gifts are tracked together.

Send your students

Youth groups and campus ministries fundraise well and care deeply about this issue. Our For Students page has fundraiser ideas your student ministry can run in a single weekend.

Why Nepal, and why this home

Nepal has one of the highest rates of trafficking and exploitation in South Asia. Research by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, commissioned by The Freedom Fund, found roughly 1,650 children aged 17 and under working in adult entertainment venues in the Kathmandu Valley, and that 62% of everyone working in that sector started before they turned 18.

Rescue is not the bottleneck. Aftercare is. Nepal’s rehabilitation centres housed 4,200 survivors in FY2024/25, up from 798 two years earlier, and most shelters can only offer temporary refuge. Garden For Hope is building a home where a girl can stay as long as her healing takes — with trauma-informed counseling, medical care, schooling and vocational training — rather than being moved on before she is ready. You can see the sourcing behind all of these figures on our Nepal trafficking statistics page.

What you should know before partnering

• Garden For Hope is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN 39-2956802. Gifts are tax-deductible in the United States to the extent provided by law.
• We are based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and our work is carried out in Nepal by a Nepali team led by co-founder Ranjana Dhungel, who has worked with trafficking survivors for over five years.
• We are young. The organisation was founded in June 2025. If your missions committee needs financial documentation, board information or a written partnership proposal, ask and we will send it.

Start the conversation

Use the contact form below, or call us at (513) 535-1744. Tell us what your church is considering — a speaker, a dinner, a month of sponsorship, a prayer partnership — and we will follow up personally. There is no packet to download and no commitment to make first.