Covid-19 stops rising women entrepreneurs in their tracks

They are involved in sectors such as tourism, food service, agriculture and manufacturing enterprises that require daily transactions to stay afloat.

Madhu Maya Bashyal runs a home stay in Tansen, a scenic hilltop town in west central Nepal. Her husband was a former migrant worker who lived in Kuwait for 18 years. He was very unhappy there, and Bashyal decided to start a business of her own so she could make enough to allow him to return home.