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This page is collection of news and updates of CIL-Kathmandu.

Advocacy with Transportation Ministry

March 2, 2020

CIL Kathmandu advocacy team visited Ministry of Physical Construction and Transportation and met Ms. Pramila Devi Raj Bhandari, Joint Secretary of the Ministry. The team introduced the challenges that all people with disability are facing on public buses due to not well customized structure for enabling access to divers people. Similarly, the team requested to… Read more Advocacy with Transportation Ministry

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Group photo of wheelchair distribution program

Nepal Made Wheelchair Distribution Program

February 3, 2020

Today CIL-Kathmandu is delighted to handover ten well customized manual active wheelchairs in collaboration of Infinity Lab R&D. Special gratitude goes to Nepal Bangladesh Bank Ltd. for generous support on life-changing and value-adding work.

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Meeting with Women, Children and Senior Citizen Minister

January 30, 2020

CIL-Kathmandu team was delighted to meet Hon. Parbat Gurung, Minister of Women Children and Senior Citizen at his ministry on 24 January 2020. We could share our live changing activities and handed an appeal letter to support for implementation of accessibility guidelines approved by Nepal Government, allocate budget for wheelchair  production work in Nepal and… Read more Meeting with Women, Children and Senior Citizen Minister

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12th General Assembly of CIL Kathmandu

January 29, 2020

On 10 December 2019, the 12th General Assembly and 6th election of the Independent Living Center for persons with Disabilities CIL-Kathmandu elected 13 new Board members in leadership of Mr. Tek Bahadur Gurung to serve the Center’s vision, mission and goal for next two years starting from 2019 to 2021. Out of the new Board… Read more 12th General Assembly of CIL Kathmandu

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New Wheelchair Workshop

August 20, 2018

CIL-Kathmandu is very excited to announce our new Wheelchair Workshop. Located in Balaju, the new workshop will enable us to once again locally manufacture and repair wheelchairs and conduct innovative wheelchair research.

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