Suraja, a lifelong day laborer in Nepal, is now growing vegetables
FRB’s Nepal-Bhatigachcha program responds to the widespread malnutrition and seasonal hunger among marginalized, landless residents in Bhatigachha. Though the area is the most fertile in the country, residents typically do not own land, and resort to day labor for their subsistence. The program supports access to leased land for farmers’ and mothers’ groups so they can farm vegetables for home consumption and income to help themselves out of the cycle of poverty. Here is one farmer’s story: