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Kathmandu, Nepal – 11 April 2025
1. Various of Nirmala Pariyar and Khendo Tamang holding hands and walking
2. Sign board at the Disability Rehabilitation Center
3. Various of Pariyar and Tamang at the center with a friend chatting with each other
4. Various of center
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Kathmandu, Nepal – 19 April 2025
5. Pariyar at her family home holding prosthetic foot
6. Pariyar hopping on one leg exiting her home, holding prosthetic foot
7. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Nirmala Pariyar, earthquake victim:
"Our friendship is still very strong and she has been my biggest support even during the times when I am away from family, when I sometimes miss my family and cry she is there. She has been not just a friend but like my own sister to me. She has been supporting me in every time, loving and caring about me. When I am away from her I feel very lonely and she feels the same when I am not with her."
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ARCHIVE: Chautra, Nepal – 13 May 2015
8. Various of building demolished by earthquake
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ARCHIVE: Kathmandu, Nepal – 22 April 2016
9. Various of Pariyar and Tamang at a carnival
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Kathmandu, Nepal – 19 April 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Nirmala Pariyar, earthquake victim:
"She used to be alone mostly while I my dad and mum were mostly with me. She had also a broken limb. We were in the same bed, eating together, used to go out together."
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Kathmandu, Nepal – 11 April 2025
11. Tamang sitting down to get her foot adjusted at the center
12. Prosthetic foot
13. Low angle shot of the two girls
14. Various of Pariyar taking photographs of Tamang posing
STORYLINE:
The 2015 Nepal earthquake that killed thousands changed the lives of many in the Himalayan nation. But it was the beginning of a friendship for two girls who each lost their legs in the tremor.
Nirmala Pariyar and Khendo Tamang were 7 and 8 years old when they met at the hospital in Kathmandu after they were brought there for treatment. Both were injured during the April 25, 2015, earthquake, which damaged more than 1 million houses and buildings in Nepal.
They shared the same hospital bed and supported each other. They went on to attend the same boarding school.
“Our friendship is still strong and she has been my biggest support even during the times when I am away from family,” Pariyar told The Associated Press.
Pariyar was pinned under a fallen metal gate and concrete wall after the quake. She was pulled out when people passing by saw her hair, and was transported to the hospital.
“I was unconscious but I was told that one of my legs was barely attached to my body. They put the leg in a cardboard box and took me to hospital,” she said.
She regained consciousness at the hospital a week after the earthquake. A few days later she met Tamang, who was brought in from her village east of the capital, Kathmandu.
It has taken months of surgery and rehabilitation to get them walking and performing everyday tasks. Both girls have been fitted with prosthetic legs, and often have to visit the disability rehabilitation center to get readjustments.
Both girls, now in their teenage years, have just finished the national high school exams and are planning their future.
Pariyar is considering majoring in science in junior college because that promises better prospects — but in her heart she wants to be a singer.
Ten years after the earthquake, most of the buildings and houses that were damaged have been rebuilt. Schools and public buildings have been built to better safety standards.
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