A remote mountainous district in Eastern Nepal. She and her husband rent land and grow black cardamom using a third of the production going to the land owner. On the side, the couple runs a tiny plane tea shop, selling cold drinks, eggs and cornbread. She and her husband take turns working at the shop along with the farm and she promises to be doing okay, not terribly good, but just okay. Her life’s singular objective is to educate her children well enough so that they can be employed in offices. Lahjung is one a third of Nepalis who have benefitted out of your remarkable progress on poverty reduction the country has experienced in the latter decades despite overwhelming challenges of conflict and political instability. Yet, she one more one of almost one half of the country’s population who may not be poor based on nationwide definition of poverty but has to work constantly to make ends deal with. She may have some savings, but barely enough to cope in the event a small shock such as poor rainfall wipes out their cardamom yields, and even illness or an accident consigns her husband to sleep for a month or two.
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