Sunday, April 5, 2009



We hiked up the hill to see the orphange built by the South Koreans.  It houses 750 orphans who were lost or displaced during the civil war.

This quote, on the bottom of a picture, hanging in the gathering room of Indira's nonprofit organization designed to help empower women, is the perfect touch to a warm, welcoming facility.  My mind is racing to comprehend all that I learned from her and from Deepak.  Their commitment to help improve the lives of the Nepali people is evident at every turn.  Deepak and I took a two mile uphill hike to visit a local village that is being displaced by the Maoist Army; note the little girl swinging the baby in the basket while her parents till the soil that will no longer be theirs in a couple of months.

The tenacity of the Nepali people continues to amaze me.  They pull out a living in the most marginal of ways, sharing with their families and loving their children.  Reread the quote above.

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