Kathmandu, Sept. 10 -- Every day at eight in the morning, twenty-seven-year-old Shila Magar and her twenty-one-year-old husband, Suman Rimal, both daily wage workers, leave their rented room in Balkumari and walk towards Guheshwori near Pashupatinath Temple. It's a long walk, around an hour and a half.

Once the couple reaches Guheshwori's Shakti Peeth Guhyeshwari Temple, they head northwest of the temple's main gate to a secluded spot where the now-closed dirt road track that once connected Tilganga to Tamarganga is.

By the time the couple reaches the spot, a long line of hundreds of people has always already formed. The couple gets in the line and waits.

Around 10 am, a mini pickup truck from Metta Hope and Challenge, a non-profit org...