Bilitaki Vakaloloma on his wheelchair at home in Tarai Village, Vanuavatu, Lau. Picture: SUPPLIED BEING confined to 30 years in a wheelchair hasn’t weakened Bilitaki Vakaloloma’s spirit. A work trip to Viria, Naitasiri back in the early 1990s ended in a horrific crash that made him paralysed from the waist down. But from the waist up, life goes on. “Being in a wheelchair and being dependent on others is not the life I dreamed and wanted,” he told The Fiji Times during an interview at Taira Village on Vanuavatu, Lau. “Nevertheless it is a life worth holding on to. You just have to figure out how to move on and be useful.”