Posted on August, 22 2012

  Having gone through years of struggle, whether it was in the community that I lived in, or in my personal life, the transition from struggle to empowerment was a huge achievement for me. This feeling of empowerment was only possible after my association with WWF Nepal as the Terai Arc Landscape community mobilizer.

“She’s an outcast; she has no place in our family. Send her off somewhere before I get rid of her,” were some common words that I was used to hearing from my mother-in-law, after I married my husband at the age of 13. In a society bound by class and restrictions, it was never permitted for my husband and i to get married simply because we belonged to different ethnicities.

click here to read more