Daunne Devi farmers’ group in Pratappur, Nawalparasi West, are happy with the practical learning they received from the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) farmer field school on cucumber and bottle gourd. The weekly sessions over 16 weeks covered…
Lakhapati Chaudhari, 40, from Rajabari, in Nawalparasi West questioned the destiny of being born a woman in a society where men seldom support women in leadership roles. However, over the last couple of years her life took…
Kathahawa is a small Muslim community in Nawalparasi West near Nepal’s southern border with India. Muslim women were culturally restricted to their homes so they were unaware of the health services available, resulting in many health issues.…
Sunita Chaudhary, a mother with five daughters, couldn’t celebrate her children’s birthdays as she would have wished. She lived in a society in Nawalparasi West where preference for a boy child over a girl is deeply entrenched.…
Roshan*, a Grade 9 student at Janata Secondary School in Palhinandan, Nawalparasi, shared that he had confusions and numerous questions related to menstruation, but he never got the correct answer and he didn’t know who to ask.…
Prakash Chandra Kewat, a gender champion of UMN’s Gender Equality Project, once thought that women were meant to stay at home and cover all the household work. Since childhood, this was what he saw and learned. As…
Postnatal check-ups were rare in two rural municipalities (RMs) of UMN’s working areas – Pratappur and Palahinandan of Nawalparasi District, especially in the remote settlements which are far from health facilities. A mother of two daughters, Sabnam…
Sixty-year-old Pitam Soti was a labourer in construction all his life and usually worked outside his home village of Jhate, in Hupsekot Rural Municipality. He was aging and the physical masonry work was getting harder for him.…
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23-year-old Sangita Harijan is from Palhinandan Rural Municipality in Nawalparasi District. She is from a Terai Dalit* community. She and her husband earn daily wages for their livelihood. When Sangita was pregnant with her second child, she…
