Nepal Bursary Project
Posted by Bill Bourlet
Dr David Wilson went on a trip to the remote Nepal region. He went as part of the Remote Area Medical Volunteers. There he found a German Rotary club in conjunction with a Katmandu club, had built a small medical clinic. They teamed up with a local nurse who traveled with them. There are many clinics in the main areas but not so in the remote areas. This is predominately a Buddhist country although there are other religions there and they practice freely. We traveled with a Dentist 3 nurses an optometrists and him a Doctor. They set out from Katmandu and travelled up the Valley with the Himalaya mountains in the background every day. They landed on a gravel air strip and walked in from there for 2 and half weeks.
They slept in tents every day. There were many prayer rocks along the way. There is no health care in the villages. We went to 4 villages. The Nepali nurse we met on the way was part way through her training 2 years to go. She is their life line to health. We were sponsored by the Rotary club on Mid Town in Katmandu. One of 26 Rotary clubs there. A bursary is now needed to help fund the balance of the Nurses training. 4 to 5,000 dollars would cover it. Wood is the basic heating and cooking fuel. They live in one room huts. The speaker was thanked by Harreson.