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Sita Koirala
Age: 14
Home: Kathmandu, Nepal
Sita is one of an estimated 10,000 children living and working in the brickfields of the Kathmandu valley. For six months of the year, she and her family migrate from their mountain village to the brickfields where they make a thousand bricks a day by hand, earning about three hundred rupees - just over £2.

In 2001 a school was set up especially for children working in the brickfields - Sita is lucky enough to attend and loves it.
Filed in: Asia, Women

Discrimination in Nepal

The migrant workers of the brickfields are 'Dalits' or low caste
Although the caste system was officially abolished in 1963, the oppression of Dalits is still rife in Nepal
The low caste status of the migrant workers means that they have no land to farm in their mountain villages so each year they migrate to the brickfields

Filed in: Asia, Women

Nepal

Nepal
population: 26.1 million
population living below $2 a day: 82.2%
female adult literacy rate: 24%