A ROLE MODEL WOMAN
65 years old, Geeta Devi Kafle of "Janaklyan Women's Group", Mahottari district gave up the long held caste discrimination practice.
She has been a role model of the Khayarmara VDC of Mahottari district. Now she eats what so-called Dalit (Untouchable) people give her. She allows Dalits in her home. The women's group participated in the Cornerstones training and changed their philosophy toward the age-old caste discrimination practice.
In Nepali phenomenon the society is divided into caste groups with hierarchy. Those of the so-called higher caste (Brahmin, Chhetrri) discriminate against the lower caste (Dalits). The level of discrimination is inhumane to the effect that Dalits are considered untouchable and ostracized from the society.
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Nepal Projects Success Stories
Best Practice- Project Management Committee
All project related activities viz. trainings, procurements etc are administered and problems solved through consultation and coordination. The involvement of the group representatives ensures that the communities’ priorities and time is respected during the planning process. Another positive aspect of PMC is the high level of transparency it brings.
| Sushila Ranamagar
Recently Sushila has been very involved with mushroom farming. Her neighbor taught her the ways and last year she took a loan of 10,000 Nepalese rupees from the groups’ savings fund to which she added her savings of 5000 rupees and invested it in mushroom farming. Sushila didn’t have to go far from her village to find a market for her mushrooms. Almost all her mushrooms were sold to local villagers.
| Dhan Kumari Lama
Dhan Kumari Lama is only 16 years old and lives in Lamatol, Kakani. What would be considered a young girl in other parts of the world; she is a grown woman in this part. As the eldest daughter of 4 children, she had many responsibilities. But her father was wise enough to send Dhan Kumari to school. She juggled between her books, her younger siblings and household chores.
| Literacy in Nepal
“It takes time to make any sense of the shapes that form the letters” says Asha Mahato. “But when it does start making sense, one thing leads to the other and soon the whole world starts making sense. The bill-boards painted on the walls, stuck on poles by the road-side, on top of the doors at the hospital in the city, the numbers on the buses are all there to make your life easier. They make the world simpler and daily life smoother.”
| Shanti Chepang
Shanti was born on 1979 on one such family. At 12 years old, she was placed in a landlord’s home away from friends and family as domestic help where she looked after the livestock, cooked, cleaned and helped with the farm. Her father came every year not to see her but to take away her salary without leaving a single penny for her. Even today many children from poor rural families are still the breadwinners for their entire family. They are estranged from parental love and care and subjected to abuse and hard work at tender age. It was her maternal uncle who came to her rescue and got her married to Mohan Chepang at the age of 17. But life was still hard as work hard to find and money was scarce.
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External Projects Success Stories
Ms. D.S. Lilawathi
Ms. D.S. Lilawathi is 67 years old and a resident of Pathegama South in Kottegoda. She lives with her ailing husband and two unmarried sons. She has seven other children, married and living in the vicinity. Lilawathi is an active member of Sahana Padanama, a local NGO affiliated with the Matara District Consortia. In the past she received two small loans from the NGO.
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