Salute to Lily Thapa
Salute to Lily Thapa
This is just to salute Lily Thapa for her untiring service provided to more than thousands of daily wage workers and low-income families during this difficult time. She and her team have been feeding two meals a day from the day of third extension of lockdown.
While responding to Post's Srizu Bajracharya's query, she explains about her feelings:
For many of the families that
we are trying to help, more than the virus, their current situation is
scarier. For many daily wage workers, the lockdown has stripped any
opportunities for work. Women who work mainly in the informal sector as
domestic help have been forced to stay home. There’s no doubt that our
current situation has hit the people from the lower economic strata
harder than the others. They have been urging us to provide two meals
per day because they really rely on this support.
There
are students living on their own, far from their hometowns and families,
and for them, this has been a difficult time. There was one student who
came to thank us because she could finally tell her mother that she was
having rice every day. Such are the times we are living in.
Socio-economic disparity has always been there, but the virus has
deepened that inequality even more.
For more details , I have pasted the link for your easy reference.
https://kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2020/05/07/women-are-the-most-vulnerable-right-now
