Nepal’s 38-year-old company run by a 74-year-old woman sets an example of indigenous entrepreneurship

In her childhood, Shyam Badan Shrestha with her mother used to wake up at 2 am and knit caps under the light of a kerosene lamp every day. Little did Shrestha know that she was not only knitting the caps but also weaving her pathway to success.

As she has been told, Shrestha shares, “My father died before my birth, when my mother was still pregnant, and as a single woman in a deeply patriarchal society, my mom raised me by weaving.”