Province Government to Build Concrete Houses for Displaced Families in Madi

Makwanpur. Asmita Praja of Chitwan, Madi-7, has just turned 24. She can read and write a little and is also the mother of 3 children. Living in a small mud house on the banks of the Parevi River in Madi-7, she has a 7-month-old infant in her lap. Amidst poverty, she is struggling to raise her 5-year-old eldest son, a 3-year-old daughter, and the infant in her lap.

Asmita's husband works as a mason. They were displaced from Kusum River in Madi when the Chitwan National Park evicted their settlement, and they came there. They have no house to live in, nor land for farming. Their livelihood depends on a house built with a fence made from the riverbank and a hut built on reclaimed land.