I am now 36 years old. My ancestral home is Baitadi. It has been nine years since I came to Dhangadhi to make a living. Now husband, children and I live in a rented room in Dhangadhi Bazar. The financial condition of the family was never good. Garikhan has nothing in the village. In the city, it is not enough to eat without eating. Villages and cities are the same for food.

We came to Dhangadi hoping that the husband and wife would work together and the children would be educated in a good school. After coming here, where did you think? Neither my husband got a job, nor I . Now we wander in the market and look for wage labor. Sometimes we wash the dishes of the hotel. Sometimes you get a job . But this is not the job. As long as we get the job, we do it . 

We both earn 18/20 thousand by working throughout the month . Five thousand room rent has to be paid . Water and electricity bills have to be paid separately . Dal, rice, salt, oil, vegetables should all be bought . 15/16 thousand is the same cost . I think let's save the remaining 3/4 thousand . But not . Sometimes what is needed, sometimes what! So far, Su has no savings.

The most expenditure is on food . I think that if we can reduce the money, we can save a little. But there is no land to grow grain. Others do not have the ability to rent their land . The price of coarse rice, which was bought at 1,050 earlier, has reached 1,700. The price has killed .

A 16-year-old daughter studies in class 10 . He has to pay a fee of Rs 400 per month. 13-year-old son also studies in seventh grade. We are paying his fee of two hundred rupees. Being a community school, it is cheap. I wanted to teach boarding school, but it was difficult to live and eat. Even if we can't read, we want to see our children become big people by reading. I am happy that my daughter will not drop out of school no matter what the situation is. Even though I want to, I feel sad because my son quits his studies and works. 

Now that the summer season has started, my husband and I have started selling ice cream . Should be brought from the factory in the morning . We get 3 rupees profit for selling one ice cream by going to the market all day . After selling 100 pieces of ice cream, you get 300 rupees. It is also possible to sell a hundred drops of ice cream by walking around in the sun all day long . Sometimes even 50-60 gota are not sold .

One day both of them sold ice cream worth 2 thousand rupees. We got 600 rupees. We were very happy that day . In the evening we took the meat and went home. The day when the family sat and ate meat and rice was not at all happy . 

Now we are running the household expenses by selling this ice cream . Last Thursday we sold seven hundred worth of ice cream combined. We sent 500 to the factory in the evening, we received 200. Surely this ice cream cannot be sold. The fear of the municipality has to be sold secretly. The city police found out that they take all the ice cream and keep it inside the municipality. 200 is not earned all day . It costs 600 rupees to separate the same in the evening. Last year, when Dhangadhi municipality took away the ice cream box, we paid 600 in 3 days and got rid of it.