Mother-daughter at SLC - 067

Mother-daughter at SLC
‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way,’ has been proved in the matter of education in Parsa district. The dream to continue education often gets broken into pieces when a girl is married off at small age in Terai. There are still thousands of girls who fail to carry on their education despite having passion for higher studies just because they are married off while they are still at schools. They get engaged in their family business before completing their student-life.
Koshila Devi of Biranchibarwa-3, Parsa was also victim of the same case who decided to re-start her education at the age of 42 to fulfil her incomplete dream which she had quit owing to child-marriage. She was not discouraged a bit even if she was to appear in the SLC exam of 2067 with her daughter Lila Sah of 18. It’s not as if people did not tease her looking at her going to school. But she did not back out from her aim: School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination. She appeared in the SLC exam together with her daughter at Mangal High School, VDC Vishwa of Parsa. She has taken the exam after completing her formal education from grade 8 to 10 with her daughter at Divya Kanya High School.
Her awareness towards female education is worth example. Breaking the old customs of sending the daughter to law’s home soon after marriage without letting her accomplish her dream to gain higher education, she has dared to challenge the traditional societies. Koshila hasn’t sent her married daughter to law’s home just because she wanted her daughter to take the SLC exam which is supposed to a milestone in the beginning of college level career.
Koshila has really done a commendable work for others to take a good lesson and re-think about education when a marriage is arranged.