Early on Friday 10th May our team of 11 headed off from Kathmandu in an electric minibus for the long drive to Balamchour in Lamjung in readiness for our eye and dental camp on the Saturday. Heavy rains the night before we left, added to appalling road conditions due to road widening works most of […]
Last month we finally made it back to Baruwa in Sindupalchowk to fulfil our promise of running a further camp. We last visited Baruwa in 2018 for an eye camp and this time around we also brought a team of dentists with us. We were extremely lucky with the weather as up until the day before […]
Background After much tooing and frowing with the local government bodies and an unexpected schools closure across the region, in the late spring of 2022 we finally got all the necessary permissions to start work on our planned water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). We planned to work in tandem with local government schools, district education […]
After our February plans had to be put on hold due to the ongoing Omicron surge Nepal was facing at the time, we were finally able to reschedule our planned eye and dental camp for mid-March and so on Saturday 12th, we packed our team, our supplies and 3 eye doctors from Kathmandu’s Teaching Hospital […]
We moved on to Shree Janachhana Basic School, a school that stands out against all the others we have supported, as its staff and school management committee is made up entirely of women, headed by their energetic head teacher, Mrs Sita Ghising. This is something very rarely seen here in Nepal, which is run very […]
