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In medical terms, Tila Maya Rai is blind. Suffering from cataracts in both of her eyes, her vision is extremely blurred. It was only a matter of time that her cataracts would mature, making her completely blind. Thankfully, by the time of writing this story, her cataracts have been removed

63 year old Chandrawati Harijan lives in Mahilwar, Lumbini — 15 minutes west of Maya Devi Temple, the exact place where Lord Buddha was born more than 2500 years ago. Her home is a three-room poorly-constructed concrete building which she shares with her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren. Her cattle,

Growing up, Soorya Mani Rai did not have access to education — there wasn’t a local school in her area, and her parents could not afford to send her away to study. But as it is in the hills of Nepal, there is plenty to do — even for a growing

One of the underreported tragedies of our time is that nearly 90% of the world’s blind live in low-income countries where poverty and blindness perpetuate in a descending cycle. The main cause of this often needless and frequently avoidable blindness is cataracts, which affect 95 million people worldwide. In

For over a year the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation has made unprecedented moves towards reducing poverty by curing those suffering from needless blindness in developing countries. So far, the foundation has served Nepal and has travelled across the nation to cure communities suffering at the hand of cataract blindness.

Bidur is a 52-year-old daily wage earner working in the shadow economy of Nepal’s informal construction sector. As a part of his job, he is expected to do a lot of manual and hazardous work such as carrying heavy loads, digging trenches and breaking boulders. Frequent lockdowns due to

When 48-year-old Mai Khanal’s kidneys failed six years ago, doctors said that she would need to undergo regular dialysis. At that time, kidney failure patients in Nepal still had to pay for their dialysis treatment. For Mai, the monthly cost of US $250 was more than what her family