Hard Labour...

The plot of land next to where I live is used as a rock breaking site. Large lorry loads of quarried stone are brought here and women like the one in the picture spend all day breaking the rock down into ever smaller pieces using hammers.

Here's a link to a document published by the International Labour Organisation which provides a good overview of the links between women's employment, family welfare and child labour in Nepal.

Hopefully the picture invites a degree of reflection....