Schoolgirls come together to combat outdated pratices

Young girls rally against social ills, urging female relatives to shun harmful traditions like Chhaupadi, child marriage and caste-based discrimination.

Seventeen-year-old Anju Bista of ward 1 of Naraharinath Rural Municipality in Kalikot district stopped practising Chhaupadi two years ago. She experienced her first period at the age of 14. Since then she was banished to the animal shed for four days by her parents and grandparents following a practice known as Chhaupadi.