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Yasotha runs a biscuit shop in a small village in Manthai East, Sri Lanka. by GOWSHAN NANDAKUMAR Source: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade The shop serves tea and groundnut biscuits from a glass cabinet. Yasotha welcomes customers into the shop with a heartwarming smile. “I enjoy being able to give something [to] people who are thirsty and hungry,” she says. Both Yasotha and her husband Senthilrasan live with disability after being hit with shrapnel. Yasotha was hit in her head when she was only 14 years old. Now, with the shrapnel still inside her body, she has difficulties with mobility and coordination. Senthilrasan was hit by shrapnel during two different incidents. He lost control over his right hand first, and then had an incident involving his leg. Confident he could work as well as any able-bodied person, he learnt to write with his non dominant left hand. The couple ...