I joined the war when I was still in school. I witnessed a lot of repression of the poor [and] this provoked me to do something when I was still a young girl… The UN rehabilitation package is not going to make things better for me. They want to train us to weave baskets and make candles. They want to sponsor my schooling, but I am already educated. I don’t want to spend my life making baskets.
— NEPAL: Shanta Karki, “I don’t need rehabilitation” from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
