Even in a vastly simplified form, a discussion of Nepal’s caste system is almost meaninglessly dense for a big-picture guy such as myself. Nominally outlawed before I was born, there nevertheless persists a deep and socially meaningful set of caste divisions in society here.
One of the Little Sisters is of an Untouchable caste. Not entirely coincidentally, [...]
…thirteen year old farmgirls want to grow up to be farmers, it seems. “If you could do anything you wanted to when you grow up, what would you do?” We asked Saru.
“Probably work in the fields here,” she said. “Well, I love it, and it would give enough time to hang out with my friends.”
Saru’s [...]
Yesterday was a big workday for us. Out the door at 7:45am, back in the door at 7:45pm. We were met by a cleaver-wielding drunk, bitten by a leech, took our lunch at an hourly-rental ‘love hotel’, had a grapefruit sized rock hurtle down the hill where we were interviewing and smash into the precious [...]
Yesterday we visited with and briefly interviewed one party to the Creation Story of the Little Sisters Fund.
It’s a sweet story that I don’t want to spoil here, but Bindhaya was the first girl that Trevor Patzer was introduced to after he asked Usha Acharya how he might help the country of Nepal.
We had met [...]
Most of the formal education in Nepal takes place in English–this is true (we understand) whether students are in government schools or private schools. Nepali language study is the lone exception.
The Little Sisters Fund girls are all products of this system, and for the most part, the older ones particularly can communicate reasonably well in English. [...]
