{"id":36406,"date":"2019-01-29T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/?p=36406"},"modified":"2019-01-29T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:07:31","slug":"low-income-single-mother-rose-to-politics-the-work-of-womens-bank-producing-results-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/en\/yleinen-en\/low-income-single-mother-rose-to-politics-the-work-of-womens-bank-producing-results-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-income single mother rose to politics \u2013 the work of Women\u2019s Bank producing results in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<form class=\"donation-teaser nelio\" action=\"\/lahjoita\"><div class=\"amount-wrap\"><p class=\"donation-teaser__heading\">Give women livelihood<\/p><div class=\"donate-box-heading\"><span class=\"donate-amount-change-button donate-left js-donate-amount-change\" data-quantity=\"minus\" data-steps=\"[5,10,15,20,25,30,50,100,200,500,1200,1500,10000,100000]\"><\/span><label for=\"donate-value\" class=\"sr-only\">Amount in euros<\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"summa\" id=\"donate-value\" class=\"donate-value donate-value-single\" value=\"30\"><span class=\"donate-amount-change-button donate-right js-donate-amount-change\" data-quantity=\"plus\" data-steps=\"[5,10,15,20,25,30,50,100,200,500,1200,1500,10000,100000]\"><\/span><\/div><p class=\"donation-teaser__label\">euros<\/p><\/div><input class=\"btn btn--color2 bg--color2 donate-teaser-submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Donate\"><\/form><script>\n    var donationTeaser = $('.donation-teaser');\n    if (donationTeaser.length) {\n\t\tdataLayer.push({ ecommerce: null, ga4ecommerce: null });  \/\/ Clear the previous ecommerce object.\n\t\tdataLayer.push({\n\t\t\t'event': 'view_item_list', \/\/ view_item_list tai select_item\n\t\t\t'ga4ecommerce': {\n\t\t\t\t'item_list_id': 'cta_donate_button',\n\t\t\t\t'item_list_name': 'Lahjoitusnosto',\n\t\t\t\t'items': [\n\t\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Samat kuin kohdesivun muissa eventeiss\u00e4, saako p\u00e4\u00e4telty\u00e4 shortcoden arvoista?\n\t\t\t\t\t'item_name': null,\n\t\t\t\t\t'item_id': null,\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t]\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\n        donationTeaser.on('submit', function(e) {\n            e.preventDefault();\n\n            dataLayer.push({ ecommerce: null, ga4ecommerce: null });  \/\/ Clear the previous ecommerce object.\n            dataLayer.push({\n                'event': 'select_item', \/\/ view_item_list tai select_item\n                'ga4ecommerce': {\n                    'item_list_id': 'cta_donate_button',\n                    'item_list_name': 'Lahjoitusnosto',\n                    'items': [\n                        {\n                        \/\/ Samat kuin kohdesivun muissa eventeiss\u00e4, saako p\u00e4\u00e4telty\u00e4 shortcoden arvoista?\n                        'item_name': null,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t'item_id': null,\n                        }\n                    ]\n                }\n            });\n\n            this.submit();\n        });\n    }\n\t<\/script>\n<p>A little boy comes to <strong>Kamu Sunar<\/strong>\u2019s shop. He chooses a chocolate bar and hands over the money. He has already turned to leave when Sunar reminds him to take the change with him.<\/p>\n<p>Kamu Sunar\u2019s shop takes up one room in a two-storey stone building on the narrow main street of the village of Bhardeu. The shop sells a variety of items from soap and bracelets to shoes and petrol. The small village of Bhardeu is located in a verdant valley right in the middle of Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Sunar is a Dalit, or an outcaste, as well as an entrepreneur and a single mother. Now, she is also a municipal councillor on the Nepalese rural municipal council Gaupalika, meaning she gets to participate in local decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>For several years, a women\u2019s cooperative supported by the Finn Church Aid volunteer network Women\u2019s Bank has operated in Sunar\u2019s home village. The women who belong to it have received education and support for e.g. saving and agriculture as well as starting their own small businesses. The members of the cooperative have improved their financial and social position, but according to the women, equally important has been an improvement in self-esteem, team spirit within the group, and support from others.<\/p>\n<p>And when a municipal election was held in Nepal, the women of Bhardeu decided to join forces. They voted for Kamu Sunar, a respected member of the group who had a slightly better chance of being elected, thanks to a Dalit quota. When she was elected, it was a victory for all of them.<\/p>\n<p>In politics, Sunar wants to promote the financial and mental empowerment of women. In Nepal, the situation of women is still poor, and not everyone thinks rights such as ownership rights and financial power of decision belong to women just like they do to men.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36399\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36399\" class=\" wp-image-36399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Sunar3-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Sunar3-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Sunar3-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Sunar3-226x150.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Sunar3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The small Bhardeu village is located in a green valley in the middle of Nepal<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Went to school in secret, married young<\/h3>\n<p>Remote Bhardeu has not always been home for Kamu Sunar. Her childhood was spent in the capital Kathmandu where her parents had a goldsmith shop. Her childhood as the eldest daughter of a family with five children was a happy one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013I went to school for five years. After that, my parents wanted me to help my mother at home and my father at the shop. Even as a child, I was strong-willed. I was very interested in mathematics. I tried continuing to go to school in secret, but when my parents found out, I got a beating, and I had to drop out of school.<\/p>\n<p>Kamu Sunar sighs. Now comes the most painful part of her story.<\/p>\n<p>A young man visited the goldsmith shop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013I was 15 years old when we met, and he was six years older than me. We married for love.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of decades ago, love matches were much less common in Nepal than they are today. The newlyweds moved to the groom\u2019s home village of Bhardeu. They were happy together for ten years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013Then he found someone else. I don\u2019t want to talk about it any more than this. He betrayed me. I don\u2019t want to think about him, says Sunar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013No, I definitely never intend to marry again, because I don\u2019t want that to happen to me again.<\/p>\n<p>When her husband left her, Sunar and her young children, a girl and a boy, were left destitute. The family of the husband did not want to help them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013My children gave me courage. I didn\u2019t want them to suffer.<\/p>\n<h3>\n\u201dMom is kind-hearted and funny\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Being a member of the women\u2019s cooperative helped Sunar rearrange her life. Little by little, Sunar acquired both skills and capital. She got a loan of 15,000 Nepalese rupees (110 euros) to start her own shop. Having her own shop had been a lifelong dream.<\/p>\n<p>The shop was a success. Both of her children got the chance to stay in school for as long as they would like.<\/p>\n<p>We close the shop for a while and go see Kamu Sunar\u2019s construction site. She is about to fulfil another dream, a home of her own. Her time living in her ex-husband\u2019s brother\u2019s house is coming to an end. The house is not even safe, because it was damaged in the powerful earthquakes of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Sunar\u2019s small plot of land is within walking distance of the shop in this beautiful valley in which the village is located. Houses are scattered few and far between in the valley, surrounded by meadows and terraced maize and mustard fields. In this country known for its snowy peaks, the tall green hills surrounding the valley cannot be called mountains.<br \/>\nAt the plot, Sunar\u2019s daughter and a friend are working in the heat of the sun, crushing rocks. You can also buy crushed rock, but it is cheaper to make your own.<\/p>\n<p>Soon there will be a small house on the plot that belongs to no one but Sunar. It feels wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, 14-year-old daughter <strong>Amrita<\/strong> can leave crushing rocks behind and gets to go to school, as the school year starts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013Amrita is stronger than I am. She talks a lot and has lots of suggestions, says Sunar.<\/p>\n<p>Amrita is interested in a career as a volleyball player. \u201dShe gets to choose herself,\u201d Sunar assures us. Her 18-year-old son <strong>Amit<\/strong> works in a goldsmith shop in Kathmandu, but often visits his mother and sister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013Mom is kind-hearted and funny. And a little strict. Mom used to be very quiet, but not anymore. I\u2019m really pround of her being on the council, says Amrita.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36397\" style=\"width: 742px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36397\" class=\" wp-image-36397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Suna2-500x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Suna2-500x367.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Suna2-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Suna2-204x150.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.naistenpankki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kamu_Suna2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I\u00b4m really proud of my mom for being on the council&#8221;, says Kamu Sunar\u00b4s daughter Amrita.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>\nWork on behalf of women<\/h3>\n<p>Outcaste people still face many kinds of discrimination in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013 I\u2019ve suffered a lot because I\u2019m outcaste. But I have learned a lot as well. I\u2019m here now because I have had so much support, says Sunar.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sunar, all members of the council are like one big family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013 We dine together and help each other. There is no discrimination there.<\/p>\n<p>Sunar knows from experience exactly what kind of skills a woman needs in order to improve her situation in society. She is now in a position to give advice and help others.<\/p>\n<p>Being on the council only pays a small fee, and the 460 municipal councils of an impoverished country do not have a great deal of funds to hand out for local development. 18 percent of the funds are especially reserved for supporting women. This is better than nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013My mind used to be empty. Now I have lots of knowledge, skills and ideas, describes Sunar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u2013Now I\u2019m very happy.<\/p>\n<p>Text: Ulla K\u00e4rki<br \/>\nPhotos: Veera Pitk\u00e4nen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little boy comes to Kamu Sunar\u2019s shop. He chooses a chocolate bar and hands over the money. He has already turned to leave when Sunar reminds him to take the change with him. 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