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Kumari Magar accompanied by her husband, Milan Kumar Magar never gave up going to different hospitals outside their village in the hopes to cure their son, Kiran Thapa Magar of blindness. Kiran was born with blindness in a remote village in the Okhaldhunga District of Nepal’s Province 1 in 2010. […]

The Youth Global Forum is a unique event, which will gather together more than 150 participants from all over the world in Jakarta, Indonesia. The aim is to come up with the solutions for the most prevalent issues. The topic of the annually organized event is related to the location […]

Literary skills and social interaction can be daunting for Blind and Visually Impaired(BVI) children as well as children with multiple disabilities. It is imperative that their learning starts at a very early age. When all of them cannot be integrated into mainstream schools, access to support services such as accessible […]

The little boy who is suffering from both blindness and autism seemed upset and was crying in the arms of the caretaker. He had just been admitted to the Enabling Centre of  Children’s Hospital for Eye, ENT and Rehabilitation Services(CHEERS) in Bhaktapur, Nepal, that day for rehabilitation services which would […]

Just over a week ago I joined around 400 civil society representatives at the C20 Summit in Melbourne to draft a communique to present to G20 leaders for consideration in their deliberations during July and November. From the outset, tension hung in the air around the question as to whether participating […]