Sabgadha is located in Ward No 6 of the Gaur Municipality in Rautahat. It is 02 Km far from the Head Quarter of Rautahat, Gaur. It’s situated by the highway of Gaur to Chandrapur. The population of the Muslim community is higher in Sabgadha comparatively with other ward of Gaur Municipality. After all, many people of the community are illiterate and disadvantageous.
Mandwi has been implementing “Socioeconomic Empowerment of Nepalese Muslim Women of Rautahat District project” in Gaur ward no 6 with the technical and financial assistance from Penny Appeal. The project aimed to improve the status of women who are socially, economically, politically and religiously in line with the objective of Mandwi that strengthen and empower the Muslim women for their betterment. However, during the participants’ selection of the vocational skill training for Muslim girls and young women, it was found that most of the targeted beneficiaries had not a Nepali citizenship, however, it is very much essential in terms of getting driving license, taking a loan from a Bank, finance or cooperative for matching funds and operating a bank account for receiving seed money to start their small business and micro-enterprises. The main reason behind Muslim women are not having citizenship was people had the perception that after the divorce (TALAK) property should be distributed to women. The issue was massively discussed in the presence of Moulbi, Ward members, Mayor, Vice-Mayor and key community leaders. Finally, they realized the necessity of citizenship, agreed and took the citizenship of 40 Muslim women and young women. Now they are very happy after getting their right of having citizenship. They said finally we got our right of having citizenship. The women thanked Penny Appeal and Mandwi Rautahat for their prized contribution of motivating them for taking citizenship.
