Even if you get cash every day from sewing, it won't last.

Five years ago, I had the courage to raise my household expenses only after learning how to sew

फाल्गुन २१, २०८१

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Even if you get cash every day from sewing, it won't last.

Dang has a house in Garhwa Rural Municipality-6, Hashipur Basti. Now I am 39 years old. I did not spend my childhood laughing like a child does today. At that time, the daughters of the Tharu community had to do business with others, if not their own.

As it is not customary in our community to educate a daughter, I also did domestic work . It was a custom to stay 'Kamaiya' just to eat and live. Even though Tharu is addressed as 'Bhoomiputra', we are always miserable. 

Five years ago, I had the courage to raise household expenses only after learning to sew. Although it is challenging to do business, now I am doing business by myself . This is a new job for my family . Before, I used to go to other people's houses to do business, but now I don't get free time from my own work since I wake up in the morning. 

After getting up early and finishing the housework, I will go to open a tailoring shop . After training in sewing women's clothes for 6 months and men's clothes for 3 months, I got the courage to start a business. I learned the skill, but I didn't have my own sewing machine. After that, I started the business by buying his old machine for 12,000 who taught me to sew. At that time, 8 people from the village took training with me, but only I made it a means of raising household expenses. When you are poor, you don't even have the courage to start a business. 

Sewing doesn't earn a single penny for twelve months . 1000 per day during festivals and 600 per day at other times. In this way, I save a little of the money I get to pay the shutter rent. 2000 monthly rent has to be paid .

Besides, I have been saving a hundred rupees a day in the cooperative. Apart from that, the amount earned can be spent on salt, oil, green vegetables and children. The rule of thumb in the sewing business is that cash comes in every day, but it doesn't last long . It can be done by moving around. And if one day you don't work, you start worrying about how to manage your expenses. Sadness and rest must be passed.

If you are not able to save daily, you have to pay monthly rent and loan installments. In the beginning, we were disappointed when the customers did not come, but now acquaintances from far away have started coming . There are many people who come to teach Siliketai. Two people who learned from me are helping me now. I have given them only in place, you will understand the wages of the clothes you have sewn. Since four sewing machines have been added to the shop, it has become easier to work together with friends. 

I can't do hard and laborious work due to my health . However, I chose tailoring as there was no way to manage household expenses without earning some income. After having problems with my uterus and kidneys, I have been operated four times . I can't do work that requires more strength because my body is so weak.

In the beginning, I took a week's training and also raised goats. I planned to increase the number of goats. Even though I got 17 goats, I left them after they could not climb trees and cut grass. 

The problem of household expenses made me run sometimes. The growth of our two fields is not enough to eat. Evening-morning should be bought and eaten. As a house builder, husband Ram Bahadur also gets 900 per day. However, the main basis for building a house is my own income . Ashika Deukhuri, a 21-year-old daughter, went to Nepalgunj after studying for her bachelor's degree in management at the multipurpose campus. 9,000 per month should be sent for daughter . 5,000 per month for a son studying in class 12. 

After having a problem with flooding, we took out a loan of 250,000 from the cooperative and built a small house. I also took the insufficient amount from the savings group . Therefore, cooperatives and groups have to pay 7,000 monthly installments. Even if the body does not support, the children say 'Mother! I am thinking of beating my body until I say, 'You don't have to work anymore.'

presentation: Durgalal KC

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