Housemaids and elderly hit hard by prohibitory orders in Kathmandu

The lockdown has not just put many domestic helps out of their jobs, elderly people have also lost their caretakers.

Until recently, Manju Thapa worked as maid at a house at Sanobharyang in Kathmandu. But two days after the prohibitory orders were imposed in the Kathmandu Valley her employer handed her some money and a sack of rice and asked her to stop coming to work until the restrictions were in place.