Louise Langkilde’s second reportage from Nepal in the series called >>Behind the Support<< describes, why discrimination, suppression and lack of rights are completely natural. But something can also succeed against all odds.
By: Louise Langkilde
We meet 29-year-old Jenita, who speaks brilliant English and works for International Co-operation on their courses for the local young people, that has to learn more about how they can help to improve the conditions and spread thoughts about the rights and democracy in their neighboring are. She has worked with these areas, since she was a big teenager. But it is not why we are going to talk with her today. We will hear her story and hear about, why the suppression and the lack of rights are a completely natural part of her day in the nepali society.
Dalits are unclean
Jenita and her family are dalits. Jenita’s father could not go to school, as he was a dalit, but still his parents sent him there every day to sit outside and look, if he could absorb some knowledge, even though he didn’t have books or any other equipment. He learned to read and calculate and learned enough to promise himself to fight for his children could get an education. When Jenita was seven years old the king introduced reforms, which meant that everybody has a right to go to school, and Jenita and her siblings were sent right away. Jenita was the only girl in the class and there was only few other dalits besides herself and her siblings at the school. The school was full of discrimination. The teachers ignored her and did nothing to teach her something, and the other students were not allowed to talk with her because she was unclean.
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