Education expenses by selling nihuro

For three consecutive years, Paru has been covering her and her siblings' education expenses by sometimes selling nihuro and sometimes by selling kafal. She used to raise the expenses of her education by selling seasonal fruits, nihuro, and timur to the passengers of the vehicle running on the Sanfe-Choukhutte road section.

``Going to graze cattle on holidays also helps with education expenses. I picked and sold Kafal until Baisakh-Jeth, now is the season of Nihuro,' she says, 'When the shepherds come, they will sell like this. The people who go to Terai buy it with joy when it is freshly picked. Sometimes even one thousand rupees are earned in a day.'

14-year-old Ramita Saud of Chowrapati rural municipality-6 is happier than any other day on holidays and Saturdays. All the friends of their age group go to graze cattle on their days off and sometimes sell nihuro to the travelers who go down from the mountains, sometimes kafal. She is happy to be able to raise her education expenses by earning in this way.

Searching in the forest is a sad thing. You earn according to your hard work,'' she said.''During the season of Kafal and Nihuru, I have not had to ask from home to buy kapi and pen.''

'When we go to the forest, we pick it and sell it on the road. If it is expensive, no one will buy it. If you give it cheaply, everyone will buy it. We didn't have to take it back,' she says.

Like Paru and Ramita, 14-year-old Nirmala, who picks and sells nihur on holidays, earned more than 7,000 by selling kafal in the month of May alone. I can climb trees better than others. I could also pick a lot of Kafal. The income was also good. When my brother was sick, he was treated with the same money," she said. "My father works in Bombay. We have 5 brothers and sisters. Sometimes Nihuro, sometimes selling Kafal and earning 8/10 thousand There is also relief at home.

She said that sometimes she is afraid of wild animals. She said that because of the thick forest, only one or two people can't go and they go in groups of friends. Parents are also happy to see that they earn income by selling fruits and vegetables grown in the forest.

'We did not separate the school and send it to sell. Shepherds go on holidays. Sometimes they come with 4/500 and sometimes up to 1000,' Nirmala's mother Dhanadevi said, 'We didn't get to see what a car would be before. Our children ride in those vehicles and pick those who fall down in the valley and sell them there.

It is his experience that he is happy to see his children working hard by making use of their free time. "They shamelessly sell the things they have picked from the forest by stopping the car. By doing this, they will be able to do something later," she said. "On the other hand, we also did not have to stress when they needed a pen immediately."