Dhan Maya Thapa, mother of Bhim Bahadur Thapa has been living with the guilt of having forced her son to leave for Kalikot to find work. “We didn’t have enough to eat, so I made my young son go to work in Kalikot. Now look what happened to him,” she says, tears in her eyes."

“My son is the first thing I think about when I wake up every morning, wondering if he will be home for dinner with the family that night. When he doesn’t show up at night I console myself that he will be here by next morning,”