Walking two hours daily for a free meal

Hundreds of families in the Capital are struggling to manage two square meals after they lost their means of livelihood.

It is noon on Sunday at the Bagmati corridor road just opposite the UN Park near Thapathali. Wiping the sweat off his neck with a handkerchief, Kashi Tamang, 10, struggles to keep pace with his mother Mina, who, all drenched in sweat, is walking a few steps ahead clutching her two-year-old son. To their right the Bagmati River flows emitting a foul smell.