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KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Ambika Bhandari, 26, is beautiful. She says her ex-husband, Krishna Bhandari, fell for her slender figure, gorgeous hair and pretty face. But he left her in 2007 after a car accident injured her spinal cord and paralyzed her legs.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Tourist vehicles marked by green registration plates stop at Basantapur, one of the major tourist attractions in central Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, and deposit hordes of tourists from various countries. As the tourists stroll around the area, their guides inform them about the century-old palace that once used to be the seat of the ancient monarchy.
NAIROBI, KENYA – Jane Akinyi, 32, locks her small shack in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, and swiftly makes her way through the narrow streets to join a file of women walking to South C, a middle-class suburb located in the south of the city, where they do housework.
It is a chilly morning, typical of the July weather here. But Akinyi says that after making the same journey every day for eight years, she is used to the cold.