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By: Jenna Kunze. Vara is a year-old single mother in Dharan, Sunsari. In the time I spend in her kitchen, she is a hummingbird moving from the potatoes on the stove to the phone on the steel countertop, all while continuously nursing her small one-year-old child. In between the cooking, cleaning for her household, and caring for her daughter, Vara also deals drugs. She takes them, too, though not as frequently as she once used to. While there exist 15 rehabilitation and treatment centers for men here, female drug users are limited to just two. Nepalese women who are drug users, face obstacles in getting the help they need due to cultural stigmas and taboos. Though many others also began taking drugs for fun, the catalysts for female drug users in Nepal are often family neglect, drug exposure from a boyfriend, or coping with societal problems like poverty or abuse. Two women I spoke with were the daughters of a Gurkha—Nepalese soldier—which, in their cases, meant little supervision and ample money to spend freely. The Deputy Superintendent of Police DSP of Dharan, Rameshwor Paudel, cites this trend as a problem that has fueled drug usage throughout the city, regardless of the gender. Slowly, she progressed to pills, then brown sugar heroin, but switched to injecting morphine into her veins to cope with the pain of being gang raped by recovering addicts. Instead of guiding her to stop using drugs at the time, her five attackers took advantage of her. At Dristi, one of the primary goals is to educate women on their increased risk of, and preventative measures for, HIV and AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and domestic abuse. The group holds awareness programs in schools, where volunteer peer educators teach drug and sexual health. This is especially important, because much of the information is not made available in a typical school curriculum, or is not talked about openly. To further address these problems, Dristi runs a branch office in Dharan, in a small shop Parina pays rent for out-of-pocket. There, two volunteers maintain an information center and refer women to the head residency center in Kathmandu. Punam makes phone calls to drug-using girls to come and speak candidly with me about their situations. Punam tells her to sit and offers her a Coke to drink. There is no judgment as the girl speaks openly about her drug use, her husband in rehab, her personal trip with friends to India to come back with pills stashed inside her mobile phone. When her phone rings, she answers it, pausing to give the caller a number for where to get Nitrogen tablets, and nobody scolds her. Having been through it themselves, the recovered women in the office know the best they can do is educate and remain in touch with this girl. She takes eight tablets a day to make it easier to deal with the stress of caring for her home and daughter. Tasked with feeding and clothing her baby, without the help of a long-gone partner, creates a need for her to earn money by any means possible. For Vera—where dealings can be done from the kitchen where she cooks and feeds simultaneously—selling drugs is as good a business as any. At Dristi, workshops are held that teach Nepaese women skill sets for them to go on and earn money independently. A version of this article was originally published on The Kathmandu Post. Jenna is a journalist and photographer whose work has been motivated by travel. After two years teaching English and freelancing in Asia, she relocated to a small town in Southeast Alaska, where she reports for a local newspaper. Jenna is a staff writer for Unearth Women, drawing on her past and future adventures for ideas about global females. Your email address will not be published. Email Facebook Instagram Twitter. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Menu Looking for Unearth Women Magazine?