Purnima is 13 year old student in Devnagar School. She is one of the good students in her school. She loves to know everything about her country, Nepal, and that is why she says her favorite subject to study one, is Nepal! Along with her study she loves playing volleyball with her friends at school. She aims to become a social worker in future.

Her family moved to Chitwan, where they are now living for so many years . The family moved here in search of better education and opportunity for the children. Her father works in gulf country to pay for family’s expenditures. In addition to herself, there are 6 other family members who live in a small house. They live together and it’s very difficult for her father and mother, who is a house wife and a farmer, hoping to give them good education, good food and shelter. She has 5 siblings including herself, and that’s why it’s very challenging for her parents to take care of their needs, basic sufficient foods, clothing and education. They do not own any land here so they have rented farm and grow crops like rice, corns and it helps them to an extent to feed everyone in the family.

They have only one toilet outside the house! For drinking water they have hand pump. Like many, this family also does not have fan, refrigerators, any electric device like TVs, computers.

School’s name: Devjyoti Basic School Number of family members: Parents and 5 children They live in a rented house which has only three rooms. They have a small toilet outside the house. Like most of the people around there they also do not have refrigerator which would be very useful especially during hot season. They even do not have fans for getting cool air when they feel extreme hot during the summer.

School’s name: Devjyoti Basic School Number of family members: Parents and 4 children