Shudarson
Shudarson is a lawyer and an indefatigable disability rights campaigner in Nepal.
Neeta
President of SHRUTI, Neeta is a DPO leader, campaigner and researcher working for the inclusion of people with hearing loss.
Fupu
Fupu took the IT training course for hard-of-hearing young people at SHRUTI in Kathmandu, and aims to continue in web design.
Agnishikha
“I am one of the first IT trainees at SHRUTI. I have always loved computers and editing photos as a hobby. I had some basic IT knowledge, as I took a computer course at high school. But I didn’t understand very well at the time. Thanks to this training I have a lot more knowledge […]
Gunaraj and Govinda
Gunaraj Khatiwada and Govinda Khanal both had polio in childhood, which affected their physical mobility. There were no rehabilitation centres nearby, or hospitals to provide timely operations and callipers. Govinda used to crawl to school, once he was too big for his mother to carry. And he recalls the heart-stopping moments for his mother when […]
Raju
Active community mobilizer in Nepal supporting many other disabled people into self-help groups and livelihood activities.
Jagadish
Journalist, DPO leader and co-founder of the Nepal Disabled Human Rights Centre.
Nor Bahadur
Nor Bahadur is a charming, gregarious person, of restricted growth, happily married to Tanka with whom he has a young son. Life was hard when Bahadur was growing up: as one of four brothers in a rural family, he was expected to pull more weight than was physically possible, and he felt that he was […]
Ambika and Ram Prasad
Ambika’s husband Ram Prasad became unwell over a decade ago, and has been unable to work ever since. Ambika cannot bring herself to recall those terrible days. She had sole responsibility for their five children, and no-one to help; all she remembers is the feeling of loneliness and discrimination. When she heard of DHRC’s WDIL […]
Yeamlak and Bisrat
(2019) Yeamlak is 8 years old and deaf. Bisrat, her father, travels 20km to school with her by bus every day and stays until school is over. The school operates a shift system to cater for over 4,000 children and is the first school in Adama to have special needs education and teachers, supplemented by […]