Sita, a 45 year old HIV-positive single mother from Central Nepal is suffering from partial paralysis of her hand and legs. Married at the age of 23, she never got to feel the real care and love from her husband.
Sita is a mother to a beautiful 12-year-old daughter and was left behind when her daughter was only 2 years old. Since then, additional burden has been added to her shoulder. After being diagnosed with HIV in 2012, she even thought of ending her life along with her daughter. But after changing her religion to Christianity, she felt as if she got a new world and her hope for life escalated. Nonetheless, the financial burden has never left her alone and she has been trying to make her ends meet through thread works.
When she came to Setu as a training participant, she had very feeble emotional as well as physical strength to do any well earning works for her livelihood. But after meeting like women going through similar struggles and polished by the emotional, spiritual and financial support provided in the training, she felt invigorated enough to have a new beginning.
She says "Now I see no major reasons to be unhappy. At least I have my own small land and if I become mentally strong, I can do an impactful livelihood activity on my own and teach an important lesson to my daughter too."
Now, Sita has initiated her own small poultry in Naya Pati Kathmandu, with the seed money of the training and also plans to receive additional skills development training like vermicomposting which would add more efficiency and output to her current work. Watching her transformed journey, we see many faces behind her awaiting to create more beautiful stories.