Prakriti Bhattarai - 34
My name is Prakriti Bhattarai. I was born as 1st child of my parents (Mr. Lokendra Raj Bhattarai and Mrs. Shanti Bhattarai) on the date 2042 B.S./1986 A.D. in Kathmandu, Nepal. When I was 10 months my parents took me to chitwan (my mamaghar)when I was 4 years old I was diagnosis with Cerebral palsy in Patna, India because nobody can find out (neither any doctors nor any physiotherapists) within all over Nepal what exactly happened with me because according to my parents I was unable to hold head, crawling and sitting till that time while other children already started to do these things so my parents took me to Patna and then they got to know that I have Cerebral Palsy so I wouldn’t be able to live my life like normal child but if I regularly do physiotherapy then my condition will not be worse. After return back from India my parents send me to my Mamaghar, (Uncle's house) Chitwan. (after then my parents took me for physiotherapy) I spend there((mamaghar) till I was 6 years old(It was at this time that my brother was already born) and then my parents bring me to Kathmandu then my parents try to send me to one normal school(Shining Star Boarding School, Sanepa, Lalitpur) where my younger brother was studying. I studied there till one year after one year due to not matching with their syllabus, lack of awareness of disability and lack of those children's concentration because of me in school the school management reject my admission. During this period my physiotherapy was still running at S.G.C.P and that time my father works on government job as police so most of time he stays in village and my mother was a teacher of one normal mainstream school she would lock me in a room and some time she leave me with someone who can do good care of me. Then Under Self-help Group for Cerebral Palsy Nepal, Special Education Program is opened on 2050 Falgun 12 and finally I joined S.G.C.P. with my mom, (she left her job because she want to teach children like me and she also think that children with Cerebral Palsy also need education according to their level) until I joined S.G.C.P. I was so disappoint because I am different from other children and due to this, non of any normal school is ready to admit me in their school and I was feeling hopeless and irritated with life because I was thinking that I am the only one who is born as different but after joined S.G.C.P., I saw lots of my friends who were more different then me and then I was feeling happy because comparison to them I am like normal and I can do lots of things I want, go anywhere and live my life like normal. There I studied till syllabus of class 4 and then I focused on extracurricular activities like sewing, cutting, arts and crafts etc and in between this I got the chance to participate different types of trainings such as sewing and cutting, basic knowledge of computer and computer’s graphic design course then I and my parents started to finding suitable jobs for me but it was very tough to find job for me because of my disability so me and my family feels very stressed but at last I found some jobs like Receptionist and Special and Normal school’s teacher (there I got the chance to experience happiness, bitterness, exclusion, sorrowness, humiliation, unity etc). During my job period I continued my study from Bigyan Secondary Boarding School, Kathmandu. I studied there till class 5 to 8 in private and after 8 it was uncomfortable for me to continue my study from home to the school so i studied at home based study till 8 to 10 and i give test and S.L.C from Bishwa Niketan Higher Secondary School, Tripureshwor through open learning. When I was a teacher in one special school, I got the opportunity to fill up the form for International Employment Achievement Award through S.G.C.P in 2018 organized and held by ADAPT (Able Disabled All People Together) Center, Bandra west, Mumbai, India on the occasion of World Cerebral Palsy day and fortunately I was nominated and got the award on title ‘Individual Employment/Entrepreneurship Award’ from ADAPT. On the year 2020 January 5 I got the opportunity to participate on Community Initiatives in Inclusion Course 2020 for master trainer through SAMA Nepal for three and half month at ADAPT (same place where I was went in 2018 for award) with my 2 other Nepali friends. There I learnt so many things about Disability, Inclusive Education, Multiple Intelligence etc from different trainers/lecturers of various faculties and I also got the opportunity to visit different types of special and mainstream schools from where I gained the ideas of management and implementing into my community and country. There I also got the opportunity to learn English language which helps me to improve my English learning skills and I also got the opportunity to participant yoga class which helps me both physically and mentally, and after taking this class increases the ability of anger and stress management in me that’s why now I am able to build my creativity (earlier I was very short tempered, stressed and was get angry easily thus I was unable to concentrate on anything) During this course I got the chance to meet and interact with the person from different environments, societies and backgrounds and it shows me life’s different angle. There I get love, care support and encouragement from everyone in everything like a family member thus I never felt that I was far away from my family. There we celebrate birthday celebrations, different occasions, and festivals and sometimes we all used to go for a walk around and shopping together. For this I would like to thank all of them. This course was about to complete but unfortunately corona virus spread all around the world, due to spread of this virus some lecturers of this course from women’s council of U.K. canceled their visit so some of our friends from this course returned back to their home town with the help of some rescue and chartered flights from their own country and rest of us stuck here at ADAPT in lockdown situation. This is very critical situation for all of us in the world especially for persons with disabilities because their immune system is very weak, they have lack of awareness about what to do and what not to do in this situation so they have to be more careful about their health and they have to be more careful not only about their health but they have to be more careful about their assistive devices also like wheelchair, white cane, walker, crutches, artificial body parts etc. In my point of view this is very critical situation for all of us in the world especially for persons with disabilities because they gets frustration, short tempered, stressed, dizziness, fear, anxiety, panic, sleep apnea, increased heartbeat, get angry easily etc. In my point of view we must protect ourselves and we have to be aware of our own safety because there is nothing more important than human’s health so during this lockdown period I maintain my physical and mental status by doing yoga, pranayaam and meditation. I make myself busy with creative and innovative work to avoid negative thought but some time by the seeing other friends are leaving through the help of their own country makes me very disappointment then I engage myself in other creative work like writing, dancing etc. For this ADAPT family also helped me, taking good care of me, talked and play with me because this is second time for me so I am more familiar with most of the ADAPT family so I didn’t feel any kind of stress, depression and bored during this situation. We had been living there for a long time and by that time all our friends had back to their country/home so we also want to come back to our country but it was not sure when we would return so we started to talk with our family, SAMA Nepal (organization through whom we came here) and ADAPT family. It took a long time to decide so my 2 friend was little disappointed thus they were trying to come to Nepal anyway, because of me, ADAPT family were trying to send us back to our country safely, so it was too late. Finally they all (ADAPT family, SAMA Nepal and our family) come to a conclusion that first COVID should be tested from ADAPT and rest of the things will be managed by family members and SAMA Nepal. This makes me so happy and I feel relief that as soon as possible we will be able to return back to Nepal. We did COVID test and result also came that we all negative/clear from COVID. ADAPT, our family and SAMA Nepal arranged all the required documents and made our journey like this, from mumbai to gorakhpur by flight, from gorakhpur to nepal border by a car provided by Shonali ma’am and from there to Nepal border a van provided by SAMA Nepal (Shankar sir with my father came to pick up us) We were very happy to return to our country and we also have all those documents which is necessary to show when required but after arriving Nagdhunga (near Kathmandu) some army and police stops our van till 3 hour and then they took us to basundhara(inside Kathmandu) quarantine center by escorting, we showed all the required documents/papers but they denied which makes all of us worried, sad and angry but that holding center was good and adjustable for me at that time so I stay there one night with my father and 2 nepali friends and next morning my mother came with chairperson of our ward and I was released to sit in home quarantine under the guidance of the ward chairperson home quarantine under the guidance of the ward chairperson. After finish quarantine, by god’s grace and blessings from my all well wishers from all over the world I got the opportunity to work as a computer operator in Women’s Development Branch of Lalitpur Metropolitan City from the date of 2077-4-23/7 Aug 2020 till today and this is huge opportunity for me to set example of myself in front of all PWD’s and their parents. Days passed by and on the 6th October I got the invitation for attend zoom meeting from ADAPT India and while attending that meeting they select me as one of the fifth winner of corona champion by seeing my performance during COVID pandemic.

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