Nepal Friendship Project Does Good in the World

There are three main aspects to this District 9700 Project being coordinated by Bathurst and Orange Daybreak Rotary Clubs:

• Maintenance of the Bal Mandir Naxal Children’s Home for 250 children to the age of 18 in Kathmandu (a Rotary – Mitrataa Partnership);
• Teacher Training Program to enhance the skills of Nepalese teachers through running week long workshops for 60 teachers in April 2012, including 20 teachers from remote Mountain areas of Nepal; and
• Health professionals enhancing children’s disease prevention and treatment through education of house mothers’ in Dental and First Aid care.

Teacher training team & interpreters take a break in the village

A number of Rotary Clubs throughout District 9700 have donated funds and provided or promised working parties to support this RAWCS project.

This was an exciting, fantastic and at times overwhelming experience summarised by the following statements from some of those involved:

• A belief that this ‘cause’ will make a difference through the opportunity to use my professional skills to help others.
• To work with Rotary on an International project that is very worthwhile.
• Absolutely daunting on the first day; Whatever I expected it was more than I expected; By the second day absolutely impressed by the sense of hope, engagement, care and responsiveness of the children and houseparents (at the orphanage)
• The keenness of the kids in tooth brushing!