Old Tamang woman. She was drinking her morning tea, in the Lapsiphedi district, north of Kathmandu. She found it extremely amusing I wanted to take her picture. This image is in a rare moment of calm, as she looked outside. Young Tamang girls, because of their beauty, are often kidnapped from Nepal and sold to Indian brothels, 8000 of them yearly. I was helping a non-govenmental organization develop photo ID cards to help track little girls at border posts, as a way to curb this unfortunate traffic.
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