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The Tharu: Indigenous People of South Tarai of Nawalparasi

The Tharu is one of the ethnic groups of Nepal found through out Terai region from east to west. They have been living mainly in Dang, Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts including Banke, Bardiya, Dang, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Morang, Saptari and Jhapa. They have their own dialect. They are divided into various clan groups. They have deep affiliation with forest and river. They love fishing. Each Tharu village has a deity known as Bhuinyar. Holi and Maghi are the major festivals. Agriculture is the main occupation for them. They are working as a bondage labour in western part of Nepal.

The Tharu people, an indigenous ethnic group living in the lowlands of western Nepal, have a unique culture, language, and tradition. They also carry the burdensome heritage of indentured servitude.

With a population of 1.19 million (6.5 per cent of the national poplation), the Tharu are one of the country's largest ethnic groups.

They are indigenous to the Terai region where the vast majority is still spread across 22 districts from east to west. They are particularly numerous in the West and Far-Western Districts of Kanchanpur, Kailali, Bardiya, Banke, and Dang.

Government statistics indicate that 79 per cent of Tharu above the age of six have never gone to school.
The Tharu were feared by outsiders and the land they inhabited was infested with malaria, to which the Tharu have a natural immunity. They were consequently left to develop in comparative isolation for many centuries. It is only in t recent historical period that they have come into direct contact with neighboring civilizations.

Agricultural bonded labour:

Nepal is the second poorest country in the world, the land of Mount Everest, and the birth place of Lord Buddha. It is also famous for its natural beauty, its resources and its unique tradition and culture. Behind Nepalese culture there lie a number of traditions hidden from the outer world. One of them is forms of slavery. These include child labour in the formal and informal sector, child domestic work, and the trafficking of girls into prostitution in India. In agriculture, the Kamaiya and Haliyasystems are living examples of contemporary slavery in Nepal. About 57,000 bonded child laborers between age group 5-18 in Agricultural Sector in Nepal.

Since the arrival of democracy in 1990 many national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and trade unions have become aware of the extent to which these forms of slavery pervade Nepalese life. Anti-Slavery and its partner organizations have produced evidence of these before this Working

Communities making kids healthy

Communities making kids healthy

Local programs cut malnutrition at a faster rate than national ones 

Dhaubadi village in Nawalparasi is so remote that many urban Nepalis don't even know it's just 280 km southwest of Kathmandu. But this community has proven that local development is possible without relying on the central government.

In seven years, village women here have managed to reduce child malnutrition from 38 to 16 percent, while nationally the rate of stunting, a sign of early chronic under-nutrition, has dropped only 16 percent in 26 years.

According to the government's Demographic and Health Survey, around 51 percent of children below five years of age are affected by stunting. Around 48 percent are underweight and 10 percent are wasted or too thin for their height, an indicator of acute malnutrition.

The main causes for these problems are low food intake, high rates of disease, poor child and maternal health care, inadequate access to sufficient basic health services and unsanitary conditions.

But nutrition experts in the government and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are positive that child malnutrition can be reduced even in the poorest villages and among illiterate, socially and economically backward communities. "The village communities can be mobilised through education and awareness and empowered to take action to improve the situation by assessing the reasons and causes," said Pragya Mathema, UNICEF's nutrition officer.

On this premise, in 1999 the Ministry of Local Development with support from UNICEF started its Decentralised Action for Children and Women (DACAW) program, which is being implemented in 15 districts around the country and has helped cut malnutrition rates from 40 to 17 percent in those districts.

"We know now why our children suffer from malnutrition," said barely literate Karuna Acharya, a young mother of eight-month-old Kalpana. Acharya has learnt about healthy feeding, sanitation the symptoms of under-nutrition and how to respond to it from DACAW's local community mobilisers.

Thousands of young mothers like Acharya in the 15 districts have benefited from the program, forming their own committees to educate pregnant and new mothers about the importance of child nutrition. "The women now sit together, identify problems and find ways to solve nutritional problems," explained mobiliser Yam Kumari Rana in Dhaubadi. She added that the mothers are so conscious about the health of their newborn children that they queue up every month at the village's health monitoring centre to check whether their children are gaining weight.
"Such community-level initiative has been successful in combating malnutrition," said UNICEF's Pradeep Shrestha in Nawalparasi.

But such success has been limited to a few districts and the rest of the country still has a major child malnutrition problem. According to UNICEF's 2005 report Nutrition in Nepal, there has been slow progress in reducing the problem. For example, stunting among children aged six to 36 months has fallen only 16 percent over the last 26 years. "It will take up to 2040 before the Millennium Development Goal of a 50 percent reduction of child malnutrition in Nepal will be reached," said the report.

At that rate, it will take another 75 years before the malnutrition level reaches an acceptable level, it added. "The only way for Nepal to swiftly reduce child malnutrition rates is by empowering communities and mobilising them to get involved in community-level nutrition work," explained Rajendra Devkota, secretary of the Nawalparasi DDC. "There is a need to replicate such an initiative in the rest of the country. Both aid agencies and the central government should act," he added

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Nawalparasi Outlook

Nawalparasi district , a part of Lumbini zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia . The district , with Parasi, as its districtheadquarter, covers an area of  2,162 km² and has a population (2001) of 562,870. Which belongs to the Western Region of Nepal, and lies 147 Km. west of the CapitalKathmandu .

Nawalparasi is divided into three physiographic areas: Terai Region, Pahadi(Hilly) Region and Bhitri Madhesh ( Mountain) . It has 4 constituencies, 1 Municipality (Ramgram Municipality of Parasi) and 73 (Seventy Three) Village Development Commeettee. Out of 73 VDCs 36 belongs to the Terai Region, 17 belongs to the Padadi Region and 16 belongs to Bhitri Madhesh Region.

It is also famous for its religious sites, specially "Triveni Dham" of Susta VDC "Daunne" of Daunne Devi VDC and "Maula Kalika" of Gaidakot VDC are the most visited religioussites of thisdistrict. Every year many devotees in an around of this district visits these holy Temple to offer pooja.

V.D.C. Belonging to Terai Region of Nawalparasi

Sunawal ,
Guthiparsauni , Sanai ,
Swathi , Makar , Ramnagar , Hakui ,
Triveni Sustha , Jamuniya , Daunne Devi , Tilakpur , Gerami , Baidauli , Somni , Rupauliya , Panchanagar , Badahara , Thulokharetowa , Guthisuryapura , Pratappur , Narshahi , Manari , Jahada , Bhujahawa , Kushma , Kudiya , Sarawal , Rampur Khadauna , Harpur , Amaraut , Pakalihawa , Devgaun , Shukhrauli , Rampukha , Bajariya and Patahi

V.D.C. Belonging to the Pahadi (Hilly) Region of Nawalparasi

Kotthar , Jauwari , Dhauwadi , Dhurkot , Dada Jori , Mithukaram , Ruchang , Mainaghat , Bullingtar , Dedhgaun , Benimanipur , Upallo Arkhala , Rakuwa , Hupsekot , Bharatipur , Naram And Rakachuli

V.D.C. Belonging to "Bhitri Madhes" Region of Nawalparasi

 Gaidakot , Kawasoti , Mukundapur , Agyauli , Amarapuri , Kolhuwa , Rajahar , Kumarwarti , Divyapuri , Narayani , Pragatinagar , Prasauni , Pithauli , Tamsariya , Shivamandir , Naya Belahani , Dumkibas , Devchuli , Deurali And 
Ratanpur

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