Sadhana Kumari Kumal Gadwa Kumal Tole, Gadwa GP 6, Dang
“The sons in the family do not help. If they did, Mother would not be washing dishes. Maybe because they …
Santoshi Kumari Tharu Kumal Gadwa GP 3, Khaira, Dang
(Part 1/2) “If I go back to my earliest memories, I see my parents making clay pots. Unlike these days, …
Santoshi Kumari Tharu Kumal Gadwa GP 3, Khaira, Dang
(Part 2/2) “I don’t know if I was lucky or unlucky to change my mind that day. A Didi had …
Prema Chaudhari Gadhawa, Dang
(Part 1/3) “We had to move to Gadhawa because my mother got severely ill. It was a chest pain that …
Prema Chaudhari Gadhawa, Dang
(Part 2/3) “At the age of 16, I got married. In my husband’s home, it was a new environment. Love …
Prema Chaudhari Gadhawa, Dang
(Part 3/3) “What broke my heart was the fact that my husband was leaving home to find work in Benaras. …
Hope Never Leaves Kathmandu
“I take medicines regularly. Sometimes they work. Sometimes they don’t. Visiting the doctor has become like visiting the community well. …
Numbers to Call Sunpur, Dang
“The number on the blackboard was important to me. I jotted it in a piece of paper. I thought someday …
A Dark Place Mental Health for All
(Part 1/2) “My father always wanted a son. He married my mother because his two wives could not give him …
Just Before Hopelessness Mental Health for All
(Part 2/2) “That night I ran away from the city. I tied my daughter on my back, held my son’s …
Saraswati Neupani Dang
(Part 1/3) “My mother was a saint. The worst thing to happen to my mother was losing her children. She …
Saraswati Neupani Dang
(Part 2/3) “But life did not stop there. After some time we had a daughter. Slowly the difficult memories of …
Saraswati Neupane Dang
(Part 3/3) “He did not come back. Only his father and brother did. I knew what had happened. A mother …
I Wiped My Tears Alone Mental Health for All
(Part 1/2) “I married when I was studying in class 10. I eloped with him. I felt sorry for him. …
I Had No Support Mental Health for All
(Part 2/2) “We were already entering the fourth year of our marriage. I was due to have another child. My …
A Mother is a Mother Mental Health for All
“Mother and Father forcefully married me off when I was only 20. I was learning how to cut and sew. …
Phool Kumari Chaudhari Jhingni 3, Dang
(Part 1/3) “She complained of pain in the back of her body. One day, she had come back home from …
Phool Kumari Chaudhari Jhingni 3, Dang
(Part 2/3) “We took her to Tulsipur. They gave her some medicines. And did some tests. That is where they …
Phool Kumari Chaudhari Jhingni 3, Dang
(Part 3/3) “We named her Sapana because she looked like a dream. She was a beautiful girl, my daughter. All …
Think Too Much Sunpur, Dang
(Part 1/2) “Last year, I went cutting grass for the buffaloes. Vegetables, chickens, and now I rear buffaloes. That day …
No Shame in Sharing Sunpur, Dang
(Part 2/2) “I had to share what I was going through with someone. A life of suffering is a difficult …
The Goddesses are my Support Mental Health for All
(Part 1/2) “After marriage, the household worsened. And the marriage ended. I remarried again. After 7 years of my second …
The Power I Posses Mental Health for All
(Part 2/2) “There are many Boksi in this village. Only a few are good people. When they possess me, I …
Sad Like a Grown Up Mental Health for All
(Part 1/3) “It was only when I was four or five, father and mother put me in school which required …
Love Also Destroys Mental Health for All
(Part 2/3) “After a year, I left school and returned back to India. This was when my depression started. I …
Calmed My Heart Mental Health for All
(Part 3/3) “Time went by but my heart was already wounded. Father and Mother said that I should remarry again. …
Radhika Biswokarma Ghumthang7, Sindhupalchok
“I want to be a nurse. Not because I want to make money. I see many sick people in my …
Hikmat Rokaya Chayanath 9, Mugu
“When there is rain, I am a farmer. Other times, I ride a horse. I have to do something to …
Saroj Kumar Pandit with his parents, Bateswor 4, Dhanusa
“We are happy together and sad together. But always together. That is how families are supposed to be, no?”
Bimala Rai Tafethok 8, Taplejung
“Rice was very scarce growing up. It was food you sometimes heard of, food of the town and of the …
Parbati Devi Sada Kanchanrup 6, Kanchanpur
“My father did not have any land of his own. The rich people of the village did not want to …
Deepak Pandit Bateswor 4, Dhanusa
“When papa left for Chandigarh there was no internet. There were no phones. We lost him for some time. There …
Garima Khatry Lalitpur
“I’d watched Schindler’s List when I was a pre-teen and it left quite an impression. Humanity is capable of both …
Shree Man Gurung Bahundanda, Lamjung
“Landslides are a bit part of my life story. I will start from the beginning if you care to listen. …
Sita Shrestha Dharan, Sunsari
“When people said I cannot drive a Tuk Tuk, I showed them. Now, I save five to six thousand a …
Dipkala Tamang Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadi 12, Khotang
“I wanted to be a nurse growing up. However, I never could gather the courage to express my wish to …
Mingmar Kesang Gatlang, Rasuwa
“My mother died in an accident three years ago. And I cried a lot. When I stopped crying, I asked …
Dhaneshwor Khatbahani Khang, Gamsalauniya 6, Saptari
“I drove a Fork Lane while I was in Saudi. I was good at it and my employers were happy …
Gyanu Rai Sapteswori 8, Chiurikha, Khotang
“I see life as a story. My mother’s story was a tragic one. They say she committed suicide. I am …
Ratna Kumara Shrestha Lelep 7, Taplejung
“When I was 19 years old a snake bit me and I lost my hand. I was very sad. One …
Laxmi Rai Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadi 12, Khotang
“Fathers wives had passed away. And his daughters from them had married and left. There were no women to look …
Kamala Shrestha Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi 12, Khotang
(Part 1/2) “Right from the moment I started saving, I knew what I would use the money for. I had …
Kamala Shrestha Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi 12, Khotang
(Part 2/2) “Today, I am a teacher at the community school in my village. I teach Social Studies to the …
Garima Khatry Lalitpur
“There is a wavelength mismatch between the internet generation , dubbed the 90s kid and said kid’s parents. An entire …
Lalita Devi Marik Birpur, Saptari
“My dream for my children is for them to have a house where they can live in happily. And maybe, …
Phufu Chungda Ghyapla, Taplejung
“I run mules from one ward to the other. But sometimes there is nothing to carry so I spend my …
Karuna Gauchan Kathmandu
“I met an old man in Langtang. The earthquake had taken his house. He had no family, no money, and …
Milk Boys Manara Siswa 9, Mahottari
“We sell milk. Sometimes it is two of us and sometimes it is three. We give what we receive to …
Hiralal Rai Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadi 12, Khotang
“I have always loved singing and dancing. Growing up, my love for it has been met with a lot of …
Manara Siswa 9, Mahottari Manara Siswa 9, Mahottari
“I used to work across the border, but after the lockdown things became uncertain. My employer came to me and …
Rashmi Dhakal Lalitpur
(Part 1/3) “When I called my parents to let them know about what had happened, they said, ‘You must have …
Rashmi Dhakal Lalitpur
(Part 2/3) “It took a long time for my parents to realize that these things happen. And it was their …
Rashmi Dhakal Lalitpur
(Part 3/3) “I remember every detail of the incident. The color of the clothes he was wearing, what I was …
Ajay Malik Janakpur
“We were four friends going back home after a long day at work. Thirsty, we went inside a road-side teashop …
Chandra Mohan Thakur Aurahi 2, Dhanusa
“I am good at Maths. I have liked the numbers from when I was little. Even though I am not …
Jeewansari Gharti Pun and Sun Kumari Pun Lukum, Rukum Purba
“I know her struggles and she knows my troubles. We are different but one. She is also a teacher and …
Arula Kumari Mahato with her son Bateswor 3, Dhanusa
“Mother always says that she does not need help. But I do not listen to her. I still come to …
Arula Kumari Mahato Bateswor 3, Dhanusa
“No one should pity me for such is not my position. I have worked hard, in the heat of the …
Champa Devi Mukhiya Hanumnagar, Kankalni NP 1, Saptari
“The women here do not go fishing. It is what men do. But I do know how to row a …
Jamsari Pun and Tara Pun Lukum, Rukum Purba
“What they become is not for us to say. They have their freedom. To be there for them will be …