decided to create an organization called Shakti Samuha, Nepali for Power Group. Life after brothel (1996-present) Shakti Samuha Danuwar and her friends created Shakti Samuha in 1996. The main objective was to raise awareness about the issue of illegal trafficking of girls and women. She began to spend a lot of time walking the streets of several Nepali villages to warn young girls and women at risk of being trafficked. She also wrote scripts for plays in which she would act either as a brothel owner or as a broker, staging her plays with other members of Shakti Samuha directly in the streets. However, Danuwar isn't limited to a particular role in the organization. She's both a counsellor and a teacher for the rescued girls and women. She's also involved in the organization's policy-making, strategy development and training programs. Since 2011, she's serving her second term as the president of the organization (her first term lasted from 2000 to 2004). Education In 2001, Danuwar entered seventh grade in Kathmandu, Nepal and stayed two years at school thanks to the donor support of Shakti Samuha. In 2009, she managed to find funding to attend courses of school support for four months and then joined SLC, the final year of schooling in Nepal. She passed the secondary school examination and studied for two years in Padma Kanya Multiple Campus, Kathmandu. She's currently working toward a Bachelor of Arts in Social Works at Kadambery Academy, Kathmandu. Other commitments Danuwar has been a board member of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women since 2008 and one of the Executive Board members of NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN). She was also a chairperson of the Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children in Nepal (AATWIN) from 2009 to 2010. On April 14, 2015, she was part of the Panel of Speakers of a high-level event on the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons. After the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Danuwar called for the greatest possible vigilance and enjoined girls and women in particular to protect themselves against sex trafficking. She declared "We are getting reports of [individuals] pretending to go for rescuing and looking at people." Shakti Samuha was also one of Childreach International's partner in its Taught, Not Trafficked project. Concerning that project, she stated: "As a survivor of trafficking, I know how evil and damaging the practice