by Mahesh KC in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 5, 2023West Rukum: Aite Pun does not have warm clothes to protect him from the harsh cold. His family members are huddled inside the tarpaulin tent they have been calling home since the November 3 earthquake destroyed their house at ward 1 of Sanibheri Rural Municipality in West Rukum. “It started raining this morning. The temperature has dropped considerably. We don’t have warm clothes or bedding. We…
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by Iftekhar Mahmud in Prothom Alo, Mar 20,2023Mariyam Begum, 72, and her daughter Bono Begum, 52, are from a remote village of Kurigram. Both the mother and the daughter are agricultural workers and earn Tk 200-250 a day. They also receive an old age allowance of Tk 500 a month. Since they have got no workover the past couple of months, they depend on the monthly old-age allowance. They now have meals twice a day…