A Nepali mother fled school as a teenager. Now she's studying alongside her own son

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Parwati Sunar studies seventh grade in her village in the south-west of the Himalayan nation, where just 57 per cent of women are literate.

It's fun to be in the same class with Ms Sunar, says Bijay BK, one of her 14-year-old classmates.Ms Sunar gets along well with her younger classmates.Ms Sunar's efforts could inspire village women thirsty to learn beyond their domestic horizons in Nepal, where they still face discrimination and child marriage is widespread, even though illegal.

"She is doing a good job," says one of her neighbours, Shruti Sunar, who is in the school's 10th grade, though not a relative."I think others should follow her and go to school."However Federation of Community Schools president Krishna Thapa says nearly half dropped out for reasons ranging from lack of textbooks to poverty."Most girls drop out during their period because there are no toilets.

 

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