On this Labor Day, HealthEd Connect honors all women laborers around the world who contribute their skill, time, and energy to support their families!
According to the World Bank, over half of women in Nepal contribute to the paid labor force in jobs ranging from simple farming to teaching or government work. We met this quiet seamstress on a visit to a village in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal. She helps to support her family by traveling from home to home, living with a family for a few weeks to provide for their sewing needs for the year before moving on to the next family. Spending her days in the cool shade of the front porch, she skillfully operates her portable, hand-driven sewing machine. A seamstress might be of a different caste than the family she is living with, but is treated warmly as part of the family.
A hard-working seamstress (right) sits with the lady of the house.
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