Giving up one of their weekend days off, staff and board members of the Nepal Disabled Women Association came to the office to talk with me about the status of women with disabilities in Nepal, the founding of their organization, their work and their plans.
Rama Dhakal, Meena Pandel and Nirmala Dhital, all women with disabilities, started NDWA in 1998, in response to the discrimination they and other women faced in Nepal. As in many countries, they experienced gender discrimination compounded by discrimination based on disability.
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