Deepak

Bandana is a waitress at Cocina Mitho Chha in Kathmandu, an excellent social enterprise that offers hospitality training and employment opportunities to disabled people. Bandana gives her perspective on the employment challenges for Deaf people in Nepal.

Dinesh has bilateral hearing loss (auditory neuropathy), which became apparent when he was 13. Due to the difficulty of accessing hearing aids, he faced difficulties in his studies and finding a job. Dinesh belongs to an ethnic indigenous group of the Terai in southern Nepal. He came into contact with…

Diya was born in Sylan District in Western Nepal, the youngest of 7 siblings. She lost her right hand in an accident at the mill where she had gone to grind corn. The loss of her hand left Diya depressed and pessimistic about her future: she thought everything was lost,…