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Street vendors are struggling to make ends meet despite life limping back to normal

Covid-19 restrictions ground Thamel’s thriving nightlife to a standstill, shutting many businesses, but perhaps the squeeze was mostly felt by night street vendors. Street vendors are struggling to make ends meet despite life limping back to normal
Forty-seven-year-old Sonu Lama waits for customers at a street in Thamel, Kathmandu. By selling cigarettes, recharge cards and tea, Lama is able to put food on the table, pay rent and children’s school fees.   Tsering Ngodup Lama/ TKP
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Tsering Ngodup Lama
Published at : February 3, 2021
Updated at : February 3, 2021 09:02
Kathmandu

Tsering Ngodup Lama

Tsering Ngodup Lama was a food and travel reporter at The Kathmandu Post, focusing on food security, labour, migration, tourism and travel. Before joining the Post, he was deputy editor at M&S VMAG, and a reporter for The Himalayan Times.


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