INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BAJURA, SEPTEMBER 5
Kathmandus Peace Service Home has provided assistance to a Dalit family from Bajuras Budhinanda Municipality-1.
The
organisation came out for help after reading a news report published in The Himalayan Times about a Dalit family stranded in Kathmandu
The Himalayan Times on its August 29 issue had published a report about Sushila Sarkis family stranded in Kathmandu.
Following the
publication of the news, staffers of the organisation had reached out to the family for help
Immediately after reading the news story, we approached the family and provided food items for at least a month for the six-member family
and will be bearing all the expenses for the treatment of Sushilas husband,said the service homes Programme Coordinator Bijendra Kunwar
We have been talking with the Amrita Foundation for the treatment of the man, who is a mental patient, said Kunwar.
The family had come to
Kathmandu from Bajuras Budhinanda Municipality-1, for the treatment of the man about nine months ago
They were stranded as the valley was under lockdown months.
They have been taking shelter in an abandoned house near the forest in
Chandragiri Municipality.
A version of this article appears in e-paper on September 6, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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