Dashain is the most popular and longest festival on the Nepali calendar – it’s a time to celebrate family and friends. The tenth day of the festival is Vijaya Dashami – on this day, a mixture of rice, yogurt and vermilion is prepared by the women, which is known as “tika”. Elders put tika on the forehead of younger relatives …
Strike? What Strike?
Demonstrations and strikes continue, petrol is unavailable and there is no cooking gas, but that doesn’t stop our resilient family at Ama Ghar. The little ones play and learn, the older children help out with preparations for Dashain, and our wonderful Dhana keeps on cooking delicious meals outside over a wood …
After Monsoon at Ama Ghar
As our monsoon season is over, we can now weed out the sandbox and use our soccer field, which was a sea of mud for several months. We are preparing for the upcoming Holidays so there is a lot of activity: cleaning the house, weeding the garden and setting up our “briquet factory” to start making briquettes so we have …