Door-to-door vendors, March 10 -- Kathmandu municipality considers that getting rid of hawkers and street food vendors makes the city "clean."

In Kathmandu's dusty streets, people pedal and push bicycles from dawn to dusk for their day-to-day livelihood. They exist like a species facing extinction. Who cares about them? This is a big but often ignored issue. Planners obsessed with car culture overlook them. But livelihood cyclists stimulate the socio-economic ecosystem of the city. Here we introduce Kathmandu's four foremost livelihood cycling groups.

sustaining local economies

Multiple livelihood cycling groups use bicycles for vending goods door-to-door. This informal sector offers an important platform of earning livelihood for the ...