By Amoghamati Traud-Debois | Project Leader
Sita is involved in a women's group named Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) and relishes her role as an active member. Very industrious, she runs the household for her husband and children and has crops which she grows for her family and more recently, forselling in surrounding communities.
Sita came to know about this Karuna project via Field Staff, who hold frequent meetings for sharing group activities. This is an opportunity to work in groups for the project activities regarding economic empowerment and income generating activities. It was following this that Sita began growing vegetables and soon realised it was more than growing she was learning and becoming a part of.
As Sita explains
"I did not use to notice patriarchy; men's or senior women's dominating behavior to women in general. After I attended the training, it opened my eyes.... I tell them that men and women are two wheels of the same cart. You cannot have one bigger or smaller, or else the cart does not work".
Sita had faced patriarchal, religious and social traditional norms that bound her to poor work or work only within the home. Now she realised with support from the collective, she could overcome these; not only contributing economically but advocating for other women and against the domestic abuse many face.
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