Raute children learning alphabets, without letting the chieftain know

Facilitators pull the tribe’s minors aside and briefly engage them in reading and writing.

Children of Raute community, a nomadic tribe that mostly lives in the forests and bushes of Karnali Province, have been learning to decipher alphabets over the past few weeks. Going to school for education is against the Raute norms, something their ancestors have defied for generations.