Bhakta, 23, has plenty to be unhappy about. In the last year or so his life has fallen apart. After contracting tuberculosis, a complication caused him to be paralysed from the waist down. After a period of time spent lying on ...Read More
Five-year-old Sristi is a lively, intelligent and delightful little girl. She also has profound hearing impairment. I first met her and her family last June at the Nepali government’s Western Regional Hospital in Pokhara, where she attends for speech and language ...Read More
Pare Budha is a 46-year-old man affected by leprosy, he comes from the Laxmipur village area of the Dang District in Nepal’s Mid Western Region, the poorest part of the country. He is married, and he and his wife have seven ...Read More
Recently I was invited to attend a five-day INF ‘wheelchair camp’ in Butwal, helping to assemble wheelchairs customised for clients. I travelled the six-hour journey from Pokhara in an INF truck with forty wheelchairs in the back, and met up with ...Read More
Subarna Khadka, aged 13, is a young girl with leprosy from the Paugha village area of Nepal’s Rukum District. When Subarna came to the INF clinic in Ghorahi in Dang District her face and limbs were swollen, her face had large ...Read More
