Meet the disability activists campaigning to make Vietnam accessible

Hieu has garnered millions of views on TikTok after making videos that reveal the fraught reality of accessing public transport and services in the Vietnamese capital or even just crossing chaotic city streets. Photos: Chris Humphrey/dpa

When wheelchair user Hieu Luu goes outside her home in Hanoi, the cracked, street stall-covered pavements are inaccessible, ATMs are unreachable, most buses do not offer access ramps and city traffic is a terrifying frenzy of motorbikes and SUVs.

Yet Hieu, who is campaigning for change on TikTok, refuses to stay at home in fear.