Even if we have a house in Mangalsen-5 market, we cannot survive without selling something. The sale of firewood has come to a standstill after the local forest committee has banned the collection of firewood. As domestic buffaloes calve only at the end of March, milk production has also stopped now. So now we are old and free.

If we sell 3 liters of milk a day at the rate of 100 rupees per liter, we would get 9,000 per month. Selling firewood for 150 rupees within a day would have earned a few thousand . Now both of us are not working so we have no income. 

My name is Sete Kami and wife's name is Badan . I am 57 and my wife is 45 years old . Although we have a big family, we are not all together. Me, my wife, 84 year old father and three year old daughter are living together now . After getting married, 2 sons and 2 daughters have gone to India to work with their families. 5 granddaughters and 3 grandsons have been born from their children.  I had enrolled all my children in school to read

, but no one paid attention to reading . When it became difficult to use a pen and paper, all four children left school and stayed at home. I also went to Bombay (India) for the first time to look for work at the age of 13. Now the children also have to suffer the same fate . For 35 years I worked as a watchman in many places in India . I washed the loaner's car, washed the dishes in the hotel, and could not earn enough to educate my children .

I did not go back to India after I got sick while working and returned home. Since there is no regular source of income at home, we spend our days by hoeing and hoeing. Three years ago, we found out that Badan was pregnant only after 5 months. As soon as she found out, when she went to the health facility to get a safe abortion, the doctor told her to give birth because it was too late. After she did not agree, she went as far as Pune, India to have an abortion, but it was not possible.

Sanche's savings were all over for the time when he was about to have an abortion. The youngest daughter born in India had to be treated in the ICU for 20 days. He feels sad because his daughter has not been born yet. 4 lakhs have been spent on treatment after the birth of a daughter from the abortion. Since then, Salinda has been adding more and more debt to our heads. 

Two years ago, after high blood pressure collapsed, I was taken to Kathmandu in an unconscious state and treated at a cost of 4 lakhs . Diabetes appeared again when he was about to get pregnant. Now I take medicine worth 7000 per month to deal with the disease . The sons are paying the expenses incurred during the treatment in Kathmandu. Since his income is not 7 rupees, now he is stressed about how to meet the medical expenses.

Even though we have a house in Mangalsen Bazar, we are now living in the lake. You have to climb uphill for 2 hours to reach here from the market. Since we have to buy water and eat while staying at home, we have gone up to the lake to make a living. 

Because of poverty, you have to come to the festival to eat delicious food. We ate meat last Dasain. When will be the day to eat meat again, no address . A daughter who doesn't have a baby doesn't know how to get a sign. When he was taken to the hospital, the doctor told him to feed him something nutritious as he was malnourished. The doctor says to feed the daughter fruits, fish, meat and eggs . Sometimes we don't have money to buy rice. In such a shortage, from where to feed the daughter nutritious food?