The experience of a mother from Kanchanpur shows how difficult it is to earn a living by working in Nepal. The struggle she had to carry ice cream from morning to evening with her nursing daughter in her arms is truly amazing.

She was forced to go down to the plains with her family as she could not support herself by farming. However, she could not live an easy life even after falling there. As the prices were increasing day by day and the income was decreasing, she was in trouble. There are many stories of Nepali people like him who sweat from morning to night to earn two shillings, which the society takes for granted and never thinks about. In fact, his struggle was very poignant.

I found that there is a lot of similarity between that mother struggling with her baby and us sweat workers abroad. He has to struggle in his own country to support his family, while we are also forced to take the road abroad to make a future for our children. The life of migrant Nepalis like us is a story of struggle and suffering, where on one hand we have lost the memory of our children's first words, first steps, on the other hand, we are forgetting our own sorrows when we see the struggle of a struggling woman like that mother.

That mother from Kanchanpur is having to tear her nanny's arm and go to the market, while we have to leave our nanny with our grandparents and sweat in a foreign land. You're rolling ice cream in carts all day, we're lost in the noise of machines overseas. Can you keep your daughter with you at work, we are missing our children's first walk, first word moment, first school life etc.

You have to sell ice cream door-to-door, street-to-street to earn two shillings in the morning-evening. You run the house with an ice cream cart in the summer, we're forced to obey company rules, whether it's snowing or stormy.

Sometimes you are forced to think - are there others in the world who suffer like us? Why should our children grow up without their parents? Why should our parents grow old without children? Why can't the country support us?

But, again, struggle is the identity of our life. Let the sweat shed today by you, by us, by our migrant brothers and sisters, make tomorrow's days brighter. May our children not suffer what we have suffered. Salute to the struggle of that mother of Kanchanpur, she is not one, but a representative of millions of Nepali mothers. Her courage is her daughter's future. May this struggle become an inspiration one day.

– Santosh Simkhada , Tokyo, Japan