KATHMANDU — Every morning at 9 a.m., Yami Jhakri Magar, a front desk officer at Hotel Hardik, navigates her wheelchair on the busy road of Bagbazar. The distance from her home to her workstation is less than 10 minutes. However, because both the road and her home are inaccessible for a wheelchair user like her, getting to work every day is a struggle.
But when she reaches office, her things are strikingly different. She easily moves around and does everything on her own.
“When I come to my workplace, it feels like heaven to me. I can do anything and move around the way I want to,” says Magar, who lost sensation to both her legs after a spinal cord injury and has been working in the…
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