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Kamala, 15, is a confident young woman and a gifted dancer. She is lucky enough to live with her sisters and her natural mother, thanks to SOS Bahini's policy of employing widowed mothers as house mothers, in order to keep families together and to provide a family environment for girls who have none. Kamala has really captured the atmosphere and events of Dasain festival at Bindyabasini Temple, where the girls went on an early field trip, getting up close where some other girls hung back and observed from afar. Kamala wants to be a dance teacher.
Kamala 1: View from Sarangkot
Kamala 1: View from Sarangkot|Many people who see this photo think it is a postcard - but this dazzling vista of the Annapurna range was 100 per cent Kamala's own view
  
Kamala 2: Bindyabasini temple scene A
Kamala 2: Bindyabasini temple scene A|These hands were two of many in a great muddle of hands and arms, lighting incense, throwing rice, breaking open coconuts, moving swiftly from temple to temple, making it difficult to capture clearly. Kamala has caught them in a striking composition.
  
Kamala 3: Bindyabasini temple scene B
Kamala 3: Bindyabasini temple scene B|This is a great shot, beautifully composed with the diagonal cutting the picture in half, with the foreground in colour and the background, seen through the wafts of incense smoke, almost monochromatic.
 
Kamala 4: Belmaya lost in thought
Kamala 4: Belmaya lost in thought|"When books and pens are in my hands I have to study, but when I have the camera in my hands I can have fun taking photos. I never feel bored with the camera" - Belmaya
  
Kamala 5: Schoolfriend
Kamala 5: Schoolfriend
 
Kamala 6: My mother
Kamala 6: My mother|Kamala captures a candid shot of her mother, who is also an SOS Bahini house mother, having a tea break
 
Kamala 7: Belmaya
Kamala 7: Belmaya|Kamala has caught Belmaya just as she is, boldly looking at the camera without posing. That strand of hair across Belmaya's face, the closeness, sharp focus and strong light, make it a really arresting photo.
  
Kamala 8: Deities and film stars
Kamala 8: Deities and film stars
  
Kamala 9: Goat to the slaughter at Bindyabasini Temple
Kamala 9: Goat to the slaughter at Bindyabasini Temple