Rotary Nepal Community Development and Training Project-April 2013

Posted by Michael Milston 
on Apr 9, 2013
 
 
ImagePresident Murray Paterson, Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak (RCOD), says "This newsletter, the second in our Orange Daybreak International Newsletter Series, details the 2013 project, where we stay, what we will be doing. It also talks about our lunch with the inspiring Gemma Sisia."
The Community Development and Training Project aims to benefit the lives of remote villagers in the Dhading District in central Nepal. The villagers have requested training in teaching, building, and health.
The team composed of 16 people (members and friends of RCOD) will be training 60 teachers from Maidi-Amarain in the Dhading District a day’s journey from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
 
ImageMary Brell, the team leader, says: "When you are part of the Nepal Team you get used to taking whatever else in your luggage you think may be of use in the villages. So when the Dream Cricket Program offered some cricket bats, balls and wickets what could I say!!"
The training team will include Barbara Adamthwaite (Molong Central School) Dawn Colcott (Victorian Institute of Teachers), Sharon Wittig (Guyra), Mary Brell (Keys To Success), Heather Grant and David Grant (Canobolas HS).
Further project work in building will involve 20 local builders being trained by two highly skilled and experienced Industrial Arts teachers - Kerry Adamthwaite and Mark Wittigin - in more advanced techniques allowing their houses and buildings to be more weather proof.
Health assessment and training component will involve:  Nurse Educator, Alison Ward (Ken Hazelton Practice in Orange) who has gathered supplies that she will use while working with the women on hygiene issues. Physiotherapist: Jenny Rodway (Physiotherapy practice in Dubbo) will be training the village women on how to look after their backs as they carry huge weights when going out into the fields each day. Dr David Watkins will conduct dental checks and dental hygiene education with the children and adults. And Mental Health First Aid training is being provided by Nepalese clinicians from Kathmandu to local “grass roots” primary care workers.

A copy of the newsletter can be downloaded from the Download frame to the left of this story