4287 x 2848 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
25 settembre 2010
Ubicazione:
Danda Phaya Village, Simikot, Humla, Karnali, Nepal
Altre informazioni:
A Sunuwar (Gold and Iron smith) girl collecting drinking water in the community tap. She is a talent school girl. Sunuwar cast is a low Hindu cast and minority but socially strong work exchange with high cast society. Simikot is the main center hub to the Karnali, Humla district of Far Western Development Region of Nepal. This district is only air connected from Kathmandu-Nepaljung-Simikot or Kathmandu-Nepaljung-Surkhet-Simikot. This is a old trade route to Taklakot, Manasarobar, Mt. Kailash of Tibet, China for the Far Western Areas of Nepal. Now Simikot Airport is trying to Blacktop, it is now completed half blacktop in 2010. Nepal government have been trying to join the motorabal road from Surkhet-Simikot -Hilsa. Hilsa is a transit point of Nepal- Tibet cross boarder after Nara-La pass height 4500M. Karnali district specially above Simikot valley almost half year covered by snow and there is no more rice paddy for enough food, is known by food scarcity FAO and World Food Program distributed as "Work for Food". Half a year they put their cows inside the house with collected hey and foods, all the streams have been frozen in this season. Peoples are poor and appears young age wrinkles in their face.
