Village youth here face real pressure to migrate for work and schooling. These are the accounts of residents who chose to learn and sustain themselves on their ancestral land instead.

Several residents describe leaving for the city before finding their way back. Their accounts trace the economic and social strain of displacement, and the slow work of rebuilding a livelihood from the soil they came from.

Material hardship was real, and so was the support of neighbours who shared tools, labour and meals. Residents describe building practical skill together, and finding dignity in that shared effort rather than in individual escape.