Sunuwar girls in Danda Phaya village.
If these girls would marry in same Karnali district will they faces same risks as their mothers does or situation might be drasticallr changed?? There are no sufficient Doctors in the government and private hospitals for the Humla people so child and maternity death rate is high in different Sunuwar cast is a low Hindu cast and minority but socially strong work exchange with high cast society. Simikot is the main center hub to the Karnali, Humla district of Far Western Development Region of Nepal. This district is only air connected from Kathmandu-Nepaljung-Simikot or Kathmandu-Nepaljung-Surkhet-Simikot. This is a old trade route to Taklakot, Manasarobar, Mt. Kailash of Tibet, China for the Far Western Areas of Nepal. Now Simikot Airport is trying to Blacktop, it is now completed half blacktop in 2010. Nepal government have been trying to join the motor- able road from Surkhet-Simikot -Hilsa. Hilsa is the transit point of Nepal - Tibet cross boarder after Nara-La pass cross(4500M). Karnali district specially above Simikot valley almost half year covers by snow and there is no more rice paddy for enough food, is known low as food area. FAO and World Food Program distributed as "Work for Food". Half a year they put their cows inside the house with collected hey and foods, all the streams have freezes in cold season. Peoples are poor and appears young age wrinkles in their face.
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Location: Sunuwar village, Danda Phaya, Humla, Nepal
Photo credit: © Prakash Khadka / Alamy / Afripics
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