Kamonohashi Project is a certified NPO that flies the banner 'create a world where no child is sold' and works specifically on human trafficking and child prostitution. It was launched in 2002 by three university students including Sayaka Murata. In Cambodia, where it started, it pursued patient one-on-one work centered on police support and 'community factories' that create jobs for women in poor households (so children go to school instead of migrant labor). As a result, arrests of sex offenders rose sharply over the nine years from 2001, brothels holding children almost vanished, and it reached a point where one could say 'the trafficking problem was nearly solved.' From 2012 it moved into India, said to have the world's largest scale of trafficking. Partnering with about 10 local NPOs, it works as the systems-thinking 'backbone' on the psychological recovery, livelihood rebuilding and court support of survivors who lived through the harm, and on building mechanisms spanning administration, police and justice (policy advocacy, legislation). From 2019 it also extended its work to child abuse in Japan.
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There is no confirmed −; independently verified + decide the position (B). No unreachable strike-through.= non-additive meter
Kamonohashi Project: A world where no child is sold—taking on human trafficking. The letter is B; certainty is medium. Unconfirmed concerns are placed under “Watching.” (As of 2026-Q3; estimate based on public information.)
Main narrative
One person’s story (N1)
+ A single story
Meecha, a girl deceived at 12 into what she was told was a babysitting job, sold to a brothel, infected with HIV and dead at 20. Now a survivor girl rescued from a brothel receives psychological-recovery support, recovers from the dissociation by which she endured by cutting herself off from her body, testifies in court before her abuser, and reaches the point of receiving state compensation. The benefit appears as a collective: in India, 359 victims received psychological care and reintegration support in FY2017.
Source nature: P1 Independent (government PR). Positive effects are not used to offset negatives.
Positive / negative effects
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- Founded in 2002. In Cambodia (2002–2018), police support and community factories drove a sharp rise in arrests of sex offenders over the nine years from 2001, and brothels holding children nearly vanished. From 2012 in India, survivor support plus government capacity-building/policy advocacy with about 10 partner NPOs, as the backbone of a collective-impact model. Compensation rose to 10–20× the pre-activity level; an anti-trafficking bill was submitted to the Indian parliament in 2021 (not enacted).P2 Independent (specialist media)
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- Making the outcomes of structural change in India visible; diversifying donation dependence; careful explanation of attribution; establishing the Japan child-abuse work.
A second look
The plus is protection, psychological recovery, livelihood rebuilding and court support for children and women in or at risk of trafficking and child prostitution—the empowerment of survivors, mechanisms to punish perpetrators, and prevention through employment for poor households (People)—backed by over 20 years, structural change in Cambodia, concrete India results (survivor support: 359 people in FY2017, compensation 10–20× higher, a bill), and government/independent reporting. Caveats: donation dependence (on the order of 100 million yen a year); online skepticism about use of funds (impressionistic, thin on concrete grounds); the Cambodia result is a multi-factor joint achievement with economic growth, the UN and other NPOs, hard to attribute; and ambitious India targets (2020/2025) were unmet.
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How to read this assessment
- Reachable upper bound (ceiling): a confirmed − sets the ceiling, and independently verified + decide the position within it. + do not cancel out −.
- The weight of evidence is not symmetric: only confirmed − are counted; the volume of disputes or allegations goes under “Watching.” + are counted from independent evidence, while an organization’s own PR is treated as “reference.”
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- The letter (assessment) and certainty (how reliable the information is) are separate axes.
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Terms: Narrative Value = an assessment (A–G) of the distance between the story an organization tells and its reality / Ceiling meter = a visualization of the reachable upper bound / Watching = unconfirmed matters not counted / Protected stakeholders = people, animals, nature, and future generations. | Generated by: AI | As of: 2026-Q3 | Back to top