Education for Freedom
In 2002 Operation Days Work worked together with MS on an education project for children of Ex-Kamayias.
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Education for Freedom - 1st up-date |
| 04 July 2006 |
In almost every VDC and municipality of Palpa district, communities of dalits can be found. Children who have surnames like Viswakarma and Pariyar are all being deprived of school education, because it indicates their dalit status.
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3 years of freedom without land |
| 20 July 2004 |
On the 3rd anniversary, the former kamaiyas still need to struggle for their rights to a descent life. Many of them lack the most basic needs and rights and as they say ‘without land and education we will never be truly free’.
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Deprived of Education |
| 21 May 2004 |
| Bardiya district has more than 200 government and private schools in several pockets of former bonded labourers' settlement areas. Kamaiya children have no or very little access to them. |
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Education for Freedom - third update |
| 20 December 2003 |
This update covers a period of extensive planning and initiation of a lot of activities disturbed by the celebration of the two largest annual festivals Dashein and Tihar
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No land yet |
| 13 August 2003 |
| More than half of the liberated kamaiyas in Bardiya district are yet to receive land as per the promise made by the government when they were declared free. |
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Caught between legal and real freedom |
| 08 August 2003 |
| Three years after their freedom was announced, most ex-kamaiyas still live in severe poverty. A vast part of them are without identity cards, without any land, without proper housing and opportunities of going to school. |
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On the road again |
| 01 August 2003 |
| Young representatives from the Operation Days Work (OD) Secretariat took to the highways in Nepal. Their mission was to find out who the former bonded labourers are. |
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A Better Future |
| 06 February 2003 |
| Although the liberation has relieved ex-kamaiyas to some extent, it has adversely affected the life of youths. In fact, youth is the group facing the most difficult situation because the major problem lies in unemployment. |
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Thumprints |
| 31 January 2003 |
| BASE Bardiya has handed over thumb prints of 10,000 Danish high school students to Nepal's Prime Minister to remind him of government promises to the kamaiyas. |
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Farmer like my farther |
| 06 July 2002 |
| The hopes and dreams of a young Tharu boy in Nepal, who's family is too poor to pay for his education. |
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