Letters from Renu and the WFN staff . . .

A diary of social work in Nepal . . . February 25, 2008

The Letters from Renu on these pages detail an ongoing saga of abuse. WARNING: these letters have graphic descriptions which may be disturbing. These are stories of real people in terrible trouble. The good news is that there are many individuals who are working to set the world right in Nepal. WFN is one of the groups seeing to it that something is being done to help.

The realities of poverty are in the pictures . . . .

The first picture is of three children. Their Mother died when the little one was burned. The Father is very poor. This picture is from the Jhapa district.  The Father always goes to work and earns Rs 70 per day with which he can buy only one KG of rice. That is all the income for the family, so the older child is responsible for taking care of the two other children. The eldest child is five years old.

 

 

The second picture is of a women who has 8 children. Her husband is very drunk most of the time and assumes no responsible for taking care of the children. He has no land nor any job. The woman has no education. She lost two children when they were little. She is always working in other people houses as a labour to feed the children but the condition is very poor.