Sitaram Kattel (Dhurmus) and Kunjana Ghimire (Suntali) Said I Will Make Every Districts "Namuna Basti" - With Video

The acting duo of Sitaram Kattel (Dhurmus) and Kunjana Ghimire (Suntali) was in Paanchkhaal, in Kavre, and caught up in a quandary. Reconstruction works led by the duo was in full swing but the couple was running out of funds, having exhausted the money 1.65 million (Sitaram prefers to be precise) collected from their shows in the US prior to the quake. Kunjana had an idea “Let’s sell our house in Kathmandu” to start for the Dhurmus-Suntali Foundation, an organisation that has so far constructed three ‘integrated model settlements’ in three districts Pahari Namuna Basti, in Kavre; Giran Chaur Namuna Basti, in Sindhupalchowk; and the recently-handed over Musahar community settlement in Mahottari, which is now home to 53 marginalised Musahar families. For the second anniversary of the Gorkha Earthquake, Anup Ojha and Timothy Aryal caught up with the duo to talk about the Foundation, its work, and what keeps the duo going.