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Her name is Danabati Mukhaiya and she lives in Belbari Municipality in Nepal’ s Morang district. Danabati is 35 years old and she was born like this. She is married and has one child, but she left her husband because he was an alcoholic and drug addict. Somebody is helping her child to be able […]

Her name is Bansi Devi Chhaudhari. She lives in Mohanpur village of Saptahari district in Nepal. She is 86, and she has lost her husband and two sons already. She was crying while she was telling me her story, and my eyes got watery, too. Banso has spent all her life in that village and […]

Her name is Subur Sada, and she is called a Dalit (“untouchable”) in the Nepali society. Subur lives in the village Lalsaiya in Shira district of Nepal. Her husband is missing since 5 years ago, and Subur has no idea whether he is alive or dead, as she has not heard anything from him. But […]

These two women are best friends since 1969 AD (Nepali year 2026 BS). That’s 50 years!! The left one name is Kancchimaya Tamang and the right one Narkumari. They are both married but they stayed best friends and help each other out. And they have this little café together in Chandrapur, called “Chiya Pasal”. It […]

His name is Arjun Nepali, and he lives in Chuniya Hetauda. He has four kids (two daughters and two sons) and a wife, and plays the traditional Nepali drum to make a living. Basically he goes from house to house and plays, and people will give him some money. You can see and watch him […]

This is Tek B. Magar from Aaptari. He has two sons and two daughters but still he has to work to support himself and his wife, who is not able to work. For sure he imagined living in his old age different from this ;-(

This is Mrs. Chamar. She belongs to the Jamar caste, which is a Dalit (“untouchable”) caste and very poor. Chamar was married when she was 12 years and now has four children. In general, women in the traditional societies of rural Nepal do not work outside of the house. However, Chamar had to find a […]

Malaji Ansari is a forest worker. By faith he is a Muslim. With the income from his work, he has to supply for his five children, his wife, his father and his mother. All of that just by cutting wood. You can imagine how tough his life is. The modest hut behind Malaji is the […]

In my blog, I want to share stories of people I meet during our Nepal Padayatra 2019 walk. People told me so many stories already, and so far I hardly found time to tell them here. But I think stories can very well illustrate the hardships that people have to go through, much better than […]