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Pankaj Khadka

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Nirmala Devi Mandal, wife of a labor migrant in Saudi Arabia, inside her house. Photo by Pankaj Khadka

Chandani Sada, 14, looks at some neighbor kids get ready for school on a Wednesday morning. Sada's family lives in abject poverty and cannot afford to send her to school, so she spends her mornings doing chores or looking after her younger siblings

A Dalit girl leans against the wall of her cob after finishing her lunch at a Dalit tole in Sakhuwa, Mahendranagar. The Dalits, who in the past were considered 'untouchable', are the most marginalized group in Nepal. While the law prohibits discrimi

A Dalit man takes a shower at a water pipe opening adjacent to irrigated plots at Sakhuwa, Mahendranagar, a village in Nepal. The water is used for agriculture, while women from the community bond over their chores and laundry. Not a single house in

Kusma Sada, mother of a labor migrant worker, smokes a bidi (tobacco rolled in leaves) outside her house in Sakhuwa, Mahendranagar, a village in Nepal.

Two Dalit boys dry themselves under the scorching Terai sun after bathing on a sunny afternoon in Sakhuwa, Mahendranagar, a village in Nepal. Most of the Dalit families here are too poor to send their kids to schools, so the kids have entire afterno

Two Dalit girls pose for the camera in an alley at a village in Mahendranagar. Photo by Pankaj Khadka

A Dalit mother, and her two daughters! Photo by Pankaj Khadka

A duo of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law peel hair off the heads and toes of chicken for dinner at Sakhuwa, Mahendranagar, a Nepali village. Because meant is too expensive to afford for these families, they make do with parts of chicken that are u

A Dalit woman seperates stones and rice husks from rice on a nanglo, a flat round bamboo tray, at Sahuwa, Mahendranagar, a village in Nepal. Similar to most of the other ethnic groups in Nepal, women in the Dalit community are responsible for most,

Dalit women and girls from Sakhuwa, Mahendranagar, a village in Nepal. Many men from this village have gone abroad, mostly to Gulf nations, to join the labor force, resulting in a starkly visible absence of young adult men in the community. Left beh

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