Two generations in a makeshift home under a boulder

A Chepang family in Dhading has been living in a tiny, natural shelter, enduring elements, and foraging wild tubers.

In the rugged terrain of Maiwang in ward 9 of Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality, Dhading, a Chepang family has spent two generations living beneath a massive boulder. Though the constitution guarantees the right to safe housing, Istaram Chepang, his wife Bikhimaya, their son Subba and daughter-in-law Bishnumaya survive in a cramped, cave-like shelter, tucked on a hill slope at the edge of the forest.