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Mission Statement To provide the Mothers Committees of 5 villages in the area with funds to assist them with health and hygiene and provide disadvantaged families with emergency healthcare when required.
In the villages the Fathers Committees are responsible for rules and regulations, while the Mothers Committees assume responsibility for health and welfare. |
In the villages the people survive on subsistence farming, so apart from teachers and the occasional nurse there are no professional people. With no policemen, doctors, social workers, etc, the villages have their own ways of dealing with everyday problems: in each village there is a Fathers Comm... Read More
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This project was initiated in 2006 by keen sewer Jan Hemingway. She brought needles, thread, scissors and fabric and introduced sewing patterns to the Mothers Committee of Okhle. Such was the enthusiasm that the following year, another group brought 3 Singer hand sewing machines and showed the la... Read More
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Funds have been provided for a partially sighted lady in the village to visit a sight clinic in Pokhara to keep her remaining vision healthy. Read More
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