When we built St. Devi’s nearly 2 decades ago the campus was situated in the country surrounded by rice paddies and with occasional visits by cobras. Yes, snakes! Very quickly the area grew up around us. The snakes are long gone and the only rice to be found is in [...]
The landscape of Nepal is changing. Traditional mud-brick homes and multi-story cement structures are being replaced with corrugated tin houses. There are several reasons for this drastic change of building materials. 1) Some feel tin will withstand earthquakes better than mud brick. 2) People don’t have the means to replace [...]
5:13 and the sun is slumbering. A rooster is calling everyone awake, taking his job very seriously! A second rooster has joined him then I hear the pitter-patter of feet on the floor above me. The residents of the LOT Children’s Home are waking, the pattern of their days nearly [...]
The children from the LOT Home in Relli send their happy greetings! Photos: Some of the children in their school uniforms, the LOT Home, The Lot School, girls jump roping in front of the school.
I was settling into an aisle seat, pulling an ipod and ear buds from a carry-on bag before shoving it under the seat in front of me. After sitting upright a hand appeared directly in front of me, palm side up, 3 shriveled tan colored balls the size of plump [...]
The children at St Devi’s Academy gobbled up delightful cake and bananas! For nearly a year they have lived with fear and concern. Life after the quake has been anything but normal, even so we tried to lighten the mood for a brief moment. With food shortages and exorbitant prices [...]
It’s been 10 months since the big earthquake in Nepal. Though in other nations the earthquake is ‘old news’, here in Nepal, it is up front and center. In Kathmandu and Thamel, the tourist district, the damage was not severe, yet in the central mountains 90% of the villages were [...]
Around a week ago the border between Nepal and India was opened! (See our October 27, 2015 blog). For 4 long months essential commodities were kept from Nepal due to the embargo. For 4 months the Nepalese people have endured exorbitant prices and/or lack of food, medicine, petrol, cooking gas [...]
Airports can be fun to explore even when long-haul travel becomes boring & tiring. We’ve traveled 12,319 miles and traversed 3 airports in the past few days. Chicago O’Hare is a busy airport but easy to navigate. When looking for food other than ‘fast food’ we found Wolfgang Puck’s quite [...]
It’s easy at times to lose a little faith in humanity, especially when listening to the news! At TWAM we are fortunate to see the good in people because we have magnanimous sponsors. In the past 2 weeks some of our supporters sent letters and a money gift for their [...]