How a family with four visually-impaired members scrapes by

Gopi Baniya has been sustaining his family by trading crops. But as he grapples with old age, the family stares at an uncertain future.

Even at 72 years of age, Gopi Baniya has to work from dawn to dusk for the livelihood of his family. Baniya, a resident of Ramawapur in ward 54 of Mayadevi Rural Municipality, has a wife, three daughters and a son. Only Gopi and his eldest daughter Sunita, who is married and now lives with her in-laws, can see.