Inspiring future generations

Recently, Kopila was invited to speak at a local college where young Nepali students are studying for their Bachelor of Business.  The teacher had heard about Samunnat and wanted to know more. Kopila wrote about the morning (which started very early-schools can start at 6.30 am for seniors!)...It was cold February Monday morning  and Mankumari and I had to travel 12 kilometres away from Birtamod at 7.15 am.  So I started my scooter and we headed off to Tridev Multiple College to talk to the students about Samunnat and our Polymer jewelry work. It was very interesting class for us, standing in front of the students with our jewelry and a block of clay.There were many questions for us and 45 min was not enough for time for both of us.  We had divided in two sessions.  Mankumari talked about Production and I told them how do we market them.This was very different experience for us in the college. We had prepared what we were going to say. It was Bachelors second years’ students class so our presentation was not too bad.   They had lots of comments after the session. The students want to know the price of the jewelry and even bought a key ring and ordered some earrings that Mankumari was wearring.   They queried about the process of making jewelry and how do we sell them.  They also wanted to know do we sell them in a shops.Mainly the college's motivation was to encourage the students in the field of small business and entrepreneurship.  From 1996 to 2007, Nepal was in the middle of the civil war and violence was common.  Now it has settled a little but our political situation is still very unstable.  Our economic condition is worse than before.  Corruption is everywhere and law and order is powerless. So women and children and youth are vulnerable.  Young people mainly want to work overseas and society admires it.   But we are losing our young people. This college was very impressed by Samunnat ladies' work so they want us to encourage the business class students and I think they were motivated a little bit.(In Birtamod, the ladies are becoming well known for their independence and drive. WM)