My name is Sharada Pariyar and I live in Shreemanjyang Ward No. 3 with my three kids (one son and two daughters) and husband. My husband is a carpenter, but it is not possible to find work as a carpenter every day. One year back, I participated in two meetings held by SLISHA. My neighborhood […]
Part 1: Sharada’s dream Read More »
I am so happy to participate in the various meetings – everything is new for me. I am dreaming about my business. I was encouraged to participate in another meeting. We gathered on the planned date. After reviewing the last meeting, the trainer started to ask questions about the indicators of ultra-poor, poor and medium
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I am Ram Kumari Ghimire. I live in the Shreemanjyang Dordi village. I live with my son. My husband left me 20 years ago. My husband had an affair with another woman and left me alone with our child. I don’t want to think about how I have spent my life nurturing my child. Due
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For every every training, the content and the facilitation style is very different. In our last training, Binita asked us to close our eyes and remember the things that we liked the most during our childhoods. I recalled my childhood and remembered how we played with a doll made from old clothes. Also we made
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Namaskar, I am Dil Maya BK. I am 32 years old. My permanent residence is in the Sarlahi district which is the southern part of Nepal. We came to Kathmandu 10 years ago, with the hope that we will get a good job. I have a daughter that is 5 years old. She is going to School at UKG. My husband is working at a sculpture-making factory. One day my friend informed
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We decided to go to our village Solukhmbu to celebrate the big festival Dashain. I felt so happy to be going but knew I would have to manage a lot of things such as shopping for our parents and relatives. When they heard we were coming to the village they were so excited to see
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Nothing is impossible if you have guts. I have started my business making “Ghumtos” for brides. Marriage season is off for one month but will start again from mid-November, therefore, there is not much demand. I immediately decided to learn to tailor so that I can expand my business. Therefore, I asked a WAWCAS team member Bimala, to join the
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I was very much excited to participate the first IBT training. The discussion started with a new style asking the question what we had in dinner last night and breakfast in the morning after sharing from each woman Binita shared that normally we understand nutritious food as the expensive meat and fish products But, we
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After three days of the 7 day training, my subcommittee friends and I went to the bigmarket centerto buymaterials to start our businesses.The market is quite far away (around 12km) from my home. When we reached the market center we were very surprised, we had never been there before. I was very curious and nervous,
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I was very excited, but nervous about the 7 day training. My mind was not stable, I was constantly thinking about the training. Will I learn anything, how will the training be? What will happen? On the first day of the training I arrived with my friends one hour earlier than the scheduled time. Binita
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