Nepal-02: Visiting Schools

The Japanese group I met was 14 college students and their teacher from Kyoto. They were staying in the same guesthouse where I was. Mr. Fujiwara, the teacher, told me that he comes to Nepal with his students every year to help government schools in poor villages around Pokhara. They collect donation of about 10,000 USD in Japan, and then help poor government schools to build new classrooms. Not only donation but they help the construction as well. “That’s a part of our activity that the students help them by their own hands. It would be a great experience for themselves.” told Mr. Fujiwara. That sounded really interesting to me, so I asked them to let me join their tour. And Mr. Fujiwara willingly accepted my request.

Nepal-01: Prologue

In 2007, I visited Nepal for the first time. Until then I had stayed in India for 2 years. Most of the time, I was staying in Kolkata, volunteering at the Missionaries of Charity (as known as Mother Teresa's House). Mother House has several institutions and each of them is for different kinds of patients such as sick or injured people, handicapped people, mental patients, orphans or old people. Most of the patients have no relatives to depend on. The institution where I was working at is called Prem Dan, which is one the biggest institution among Mother House for sick, injured, old or handicapped people but not in critical condition.

Prem Dan (2006)