Girls in Pipalgaun deprived of education

There are more than 30 girls of school-going age in Pipalgaun, a Dalit settlement in Achham, and none of them goes to school as the parents want them at home to help run the household.

At 16 years of age, Nabina BK can’t read or write. She is one of five daughters in her family of eight members. None of the five sisters have received a formal education although her two brothers are enrolled in a local school.