After I left Nepal I also heard that Laljahri had successfully created a “community savings and loan fund” in her village following through on the first step in her plan for leading the village out of it’s debilitating poverty. Now that she could read and write herself her next step was to teach others these necessities and introduce a second kind of education to the villagers about dealing with money and finances. She wanted to learn how a person could develop a “business sense”, and know “how to run a business”, she told me, and she wanted to teach others in her village how to run small businesses and how to invest money. She saw these as essential for people to know to escape from the vacuum created by poverty that is so hard to get out of. A key part of her antipoverty program, too, that all important facet of sustainability, was to to improve the physical health of the villagers, particularly the women and children. A chunk of that was to try and eliminate alcoholism and cigarette smoking.