Womanpower stays home to teach, as manpower migrates

Sarita Thami lives with her family in Mulabari, a village in the poorer eastern part of Sindhupalchok where the mountains are steep and rocky, and there is little fertile land.

The hard life and lack of education has forced many men to migrate. Among those who remain alcohol consumption is high, even children drink chhang in the morning because milk is neither available nor affordable. The girls are married as early as 12 and by the time they are 20, they may have up to three children.

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