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“I have a special sister, but I am the older one,” she says. By ‘special’, she means twin.

“It is true – she was born a few seconds before me,” Jamuna, Ganga’s twin sister, says confiendently. “She is indeed my older sister, but I take care of all of them.”

“I was so afraid. I thought the house would collapse,” she says. She remembers thinking she could die and her parents were not there.

Jamuna found her mother, her twin and younger other safe and alive, but their father was missing.

“When he finally showed up, seven hours later, I felt such happiness,” she says with a smile. “I had so many emotions running through my head that I couldn’t even talk!”

One of the volunteers working at the space is Kuisang Rumba, an actor famous from Nepali music video clips. He teaches his dance moves while making music with his lips. The strange sounds and moves make the children eak out in laughter.

Jamuna is the first to join him and repeat his choreographed moves, while Ganga watches and laughs shyly.

“On the first day, many of these children were shy, afraid of everyone and were mostly passive,” Kuisang says. “However, after three or four theatre and dance sessions, most of them start to participate, to interact and to join me in my funny moves.”

Jamuna has many dreams to fulfill, and she can’t wait to go back to school.

I like singing, dancing and playing at the child-friendly space, but now I feel bored. I want to write and read. I miss the past,” she says. “I heard that being a scientist is a good thing. So I want to study hard and do that in the future.”