A Day in the life of Indira

Indira is 7 years old. She comes from Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal is located in the Himalayas and bordered to India and China. Until 2008, Nepal was a monarch. In Nepal, there are many earthquakes, like almost every day. Indira lives in the capital of the country, the city has about 671,846 citizens and is located in the Kathmandu valleys. Indira likes to play with her siblings. She has two older brothers and three older sisters. In her bedroom, she sleeps with her sisters, which is sometimes problematic because her sisters argues a lot. She lives in a little shed, the family shares two sheds that are put together, her parents shares a shed with the kitchen, which is not even a kitchen it is just pots and a wooden spoon. Indira and her sisters shares a shed with her brothers, a blanket separates the shed, so there is not much privacy. If you need to go to the bathroom, you cannot because there is not any. You have to dig a hole in the ground and do what you have to do. With bath, there is not much to it; it is a tub with water and a small bowl and you pour the water up from the tub and over yourself, while sitting in the tub, like the good old days. Indira does not go to school like every other child, she goes to work with her mother and sisters. She does not go to school because her parents cannot afford it. Her sisters and her cannot read and write, and statistics say that 7 out of ten women cannot read and write because they either has dropped out of school, or never even went there. Even though she does not go to school, she can do math. One of her uncles is a schoolteacher and when he comes to visit, he often has math assignments to her. He obviously helps her if she need it, but often she does not need the help. Her parents wish that they have had the money to pay for her school, but sadly, they do not. However, they do hope that at some point, she has earned enough money to go to school, or that someone will see her talent and pay for her school attendance.