Rotarian Patti Lefkos gave a talk, illustrated by slides operated by her husband Barry Hodgins, about her solo spring 2014 trip to Nepal. During her time there she volunteered for two weeks teaching English at Bhairabi School in Ratmate Village, a seven hour hardscrabble dirt road Jeep ride west of Kathmandu. At the end of the two weeks she visited an even more remote school four hours further west. There in Aaprik Village, she discovered a 54 year old mud and stone school called Devi Jal Kumari, crumbling down around its 225 students.
 
In January 2015, she and her husband Barry Hodgins, both former educators, and three friends, another educator, a retired banker and a paramedic, formed the BC registered non-profit Nepal One Day at a Time Society in oder to raise funds to rebuild the school and support education in the Gorkha District. They have presented several slide shows, produced and sold photo art cards of Nepal and will soon begin a crowd funding campaign to raise funds. They are collaborating with Rotarian Prem K. Khatry, a two time Paul Harris fellow, member of the Kathmandu based Rotary Club of  Mt. Everest - Lalitpur, who is founder of the Nepali registered charity Sambhav Nepal. Prem has successfully collaborated with the Rotary Club of Wahroonga from Sydney, Australia on several projects in a nearby area for the past eight years.