disability

During the pandemic, don’t forget leprosy

Early detection, treatment, rehabilitation and efforts to eliminate discrimination must continue even as Covid-19 threatens to undo past gains against leprosy

Nepal’s disabled get a shot at Covid

Nepal has started to vaccinate people with disabilities across the country against the coronavirus with the Johnson & Johnson single-shot jab. At...

Changing disability to this-ability

In 2010, my son who has Down’s Syndrome (DS), spent his first birthday in an Indian hospital due to severe pneumonia. During...

Changing disability to this-ability

In 2010, my son who has Down’s Syndrome (DS), spent his first birthday in an Indian hospital due to severe pneumonia. During...

Listening to the hearing impaired

In 2013, a government directive required every national television channel that broadcasts news to broadcast it in sign language at least once...

Hearing for the deaf, seeing for the blind

Sarah Yonzan Giri never intended to become a sign-language expert. The wife of Nepal’s famous Panchayat-era prime minister, she was living in...

Sightseeing for the blind

As Alex T James stood before a white lion statue in Kathmandu Darbar Square, his sighted partner took his hand and guided...

Nepal in the 2020s

Nepal is stepping up preparations for its 10-year census in 2021, which is slated to be the most hitech in history and...

Blind Rockers 2019

The second edition of Mr and Ms Blind Rockers was held in Nachghar, Kathmandu on 16 September 2019. Organised by Blind Rocks!,...

Paying an arm and a leg

https://youtu.be/M2XedSLYl-gHari Pun, 31, was working on the scaffolding of a building in the Malaysian city of Penang last year. He was wearing...