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The Death of A Small Hope (Kaski Case)

Some mother groups in Kaski hast strong interlocking social structure that governs how its members work together. Their unity stands for the aggregate of personal connection and building of relationship among the members who share a common affiliation. The members always tend to perpetuate cultural and social values, promote continuous interactions among them, and provide social control on all aspects of the community affairs.   While some mother groups resist to change because their leaders are not integrating interests and goals of all members and are intentionally creating gaps in filling management abilities by undermining morale of members, who really want to do something for themselves and their group.

A president of a known mother group has a president, who is a political icon, and has a government job. The vice-president has a private job. The rest of the members are housewives, who have learnt skills on knitting, crocheting, and other craft jobs. The skilled members are thinking big and enthusiastic to run a garment house to bring their designs to life. Their creations are not branded, but undoubtedly have strong visual identity.

‘We have cut-make-and-finishing skills, and joined our hands in a small tailor. We have been working on similar patterns for a long-time, we really want to read and learn higher skills. The members can hardly learn in comfort at home. Yet, we do not have resources to invest in,’ a member stated. We cannot separate ourselves from key members of the group, they have political influence, they have superfans, who are always power-hungry. ‘The bad politics is always a good politics here,’ she added further. ‘They do not register the group at local authority, nor they let us do so,’ some members stated.   

The tailor, where the willing members regularly engage, is in danger of being pulled-out. None of the members are disagreeable except some key members.