Rotary Nepal Community Development and Training Project-June 2013
Posted by Michael Milston
President of the Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak, Murray Paterson, reports:"The 2013 Team has returned Maidi and Dhola Areas, of the Dhading District, Nepal - mostly intact! Dr David Watkins is sporting a “moon boot”, a consequence of stepping out at night without torchlight!
The rest of the Team showed they were seasoned travellers. David is also of course an inveterate and veteran world traveller himself! But he will always take a torch now on his way to the … well you know!!
A successful training program was again conducted in the Amarawati Secondary School in the Dhading District, Nepal. This time the training scope was increased – not just teaching but building, health and mental health as well.
Congratulations to all the intrepid travellers and to all our colleagues in Nepal – a job well done."
The local Nepali people have extended their thanks to everyone who has contributed to this program. And they want and need us back again they say. As Dr Arun Jha (a senior Nepalese psychiatrist) noted - “For me, it was an extraordinary experience to be with so many people from Australia staying in the tents and offering so many programmes to local people at the same time. I thoroughly enjoyed the work, but not the toilet facility!”
It would seem both Dr Jha and Dr Watkins have something to remember!!
That is the essence of our work – working together to build local capacity with the advice and direction of those who know best, our Nepali friends."Would you like to join us as we continue to adventure in the Himalayas?
Why not join us in April or in November 2014. Visit the villages, the mental health rehabilitation centre, have dinner with the local Rotary President, trek in Bhutan, ride an elephant in Chitwan; in November shop in New Delhi and meet the Tibetan community in the Indian Himalayas. See page 9 of the Newsletter (below) for information.
The Newsletter, with a record of the recent trip's achievement and future plans, is in the link on the left of this page.