My Day: Sri Lankan fisherwoman
8 March 2014
Vijayakumar Thevarani works 18-hour days, but still does not earn enough to avoid getting into debt
Vijayakumar Thevarani, 42, has been working in fishing since the age of 16. She is a widow with four children, two of whom still live at home, and lives in Karainagar, an island joined by a causeway to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.
I have always done fishing work. The men go out to sea and if there is work available I do everything from tapping fish - that is, removing them from the nets - to repairing nets. This is the work I have always known and if there's no work in this village I go to another.