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Nyima is the orphanage’s house-
Born in 1974 in Kangjim, District Rasuwa, Nepal in a poor farmer family.
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4 sisters, 3 brothers / None of them had a chance to visit a school (in Nepal one has to pay for school). As simple farmers the parents had no money left for their children’s education / As a child Nyima worked in her parents fields and house.
In 1999 at the age of 25 love-
In 2003 the family moved to Kathmandu, Nepal’s capitol. Here they were hoping to find jobs for Tenjen in the tourism sector easier / At 31 the first daughter was born / In 2006 Nyima and Tenjen took the first orphan into their family…