The woman who gives a new lease of life to children of the incarcerated

In the last two decades, Indira Ranamagar’s organisation PA Nepal has provided more than 2,000 children of incarcerated parents with a safe environment to grow up in.

It’s 8:45 in the morning and Prisoner’s Assistance Nepal’s head office in Kathmandu’s Nayabazar is bustling with activity. In the office building, which also functions as a care home, young children are running up and down the stairs and getting ready for school. Outside, Indira Ranamagar, whom the children call Ama [mother], is trying to convince three-year-old Anamalika Rana to get ready for school.