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    2023 Conscious Connections Annual Report

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    At the heart of CCF are partnerships—our Conscious Connections—that are powerful and through which our impact is multiplied. We are Nepali-led because the needs are best understood by its local people. CCF’s work is rooted in relationships built over more than three decades. Through collaborative partnerships, CCF brings input and resources while ensuring accountability and impact.

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  • Namaste

    Namaste

    Namaste from Nepal! 

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    There is nothing like seeing hope for the future in the midst of hardship and devastation that seems insurmountable. But it’s here, alive and well in Nepal and it’s unbelievable.  The unbeatable Nepali spirit is a constant inspiration and makes me realize that perception can often help us beat the odds. For Nepali’s they have no option so they make the best of a very, very difficult situation and amazingly theydo it with a smile.  So we move forward into a New Year (literally, the Nepali New Year is in a few weeks) with the odds still difficult but the will as strong as the Himalaya!

    Being in Nepal we get to see the spirit of the future in the brightness of the eyes of the 3 young women who received the Joy Attwood College Scholarship fund from CCF several days ago. Three girls who worked hard, even when they lost their homes.  Girls who had the tenacity to continue to work hard in school and apply for and win the CCF scholarships. They and their parents were so proud. The
           scholarship recipients
    y kept their hope alive through it all and see themselves becoming nurses and a cardiologist and returning to their villages to care for the poor. Their parents work with the Fair Trade organization, the Association for Craft Producers, which has had the foresight to organize stipends from CCF’s Power of 5 donations to enable the producers to keep their girls in school. It keeps hope alive. We have seen first hand the effect of your donations to Conscious Connections Foundation and the effectiveness that this money and kindness has wrought. We have been very deliberate with this money and have seen hope come alive in areas where we thought none could exist. We cannot thank you enough for that support, both monetarily and spiritually. CCF board member Cameron Conner and CCF volunteer Grant Gallaher have just completed an extensive evaluation of the work of CCF over these past 11 months of Earthquake relief so that you can see where your dollars went and how effective they were. We invite you all to take a look at this and realize how your donations have kept hope alive.
    Through these past 11 months we have also witnessed, in a very unique way, the value of economic partnership, through long-standing fair trade relationships. Fair Trade Federation members, in addition to Ganesh Himal, have kept producers hope alive and helped them weather an incomprehensible natural disaster. It strengthens my belief in the Fair Trade model even more and makes me understand how valuable it is in creating a future that is hopeful. There is a Hindu proverb that says it all “Help your neighbor’s boat across and lo, your own has reached the shore”. It really is that simple. We can help each other; it keeps hope alive.
    There are so many stories I could share with you but right now we have a clinic to build, a small rural K-3 school to finish, more food aid to distribute, producers to work with and new products to create!  Thank you for standing beside us and keeping our hope alive. I hope to have more amazing stories to share with you in the near future.
    Namaste,
    Denise & Ric

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  • A Day in Kathmandu

    A Day in Kathmandu

     

     

    Future Plans and New Connections

    We returned from our two week trek with a massive amount of information, amazing memories, and an entirely new understanding of the Nepali people and their current situation. Now we were faced with this question: with all this new information, how can the Conscious Connections Foundation most effectively help these people?

    As has been mentioned in several recent blog posts, the resounding message from the vast majority of the villages we visited was that they lacked permanent shelter and that their current temporary shelters were largely inadequate for the deadly, chilling winter. With this identified as the greatest need, we knew we had to do something to help the shelter situation. CCF, as a smaller organization, obviously can’t rebuild an entire village – no matter how much we wish we could. Different approaches were necessary to address this pressing issue. With this in mind, the organization is already putting into motion earthquake recovery programs that largely aim to achieve the following two goals:

    1. Spread new, innovative, earthquake resistant building techniques to villagers to promote sustainable rebuilding and to increase future resilience
    2. Supply villagers with warm, high-quality clothing and other necessary items for the winter

    This first goal seeks to provide a long term solution to the shelter crisis by empowering villagers with new ideas to build new homes and a better future. Cameron and I have done extensive research and contacted many experts on earthquake resistant building techniques such as earthbags, rammed earth, and gabion bands. All of these techniques have been shown to survive earthquakes, but again, CCF can’t build homes like these for every single villager in need. Instead, CCF’s shelter recovery programs will work to build sample homes in the villages using these techniques, giving villagers the opportunity to learn about and understand these new ideas, allowing them to decide for themselves what materials they want to use to rebuild their own homes. Additionally, these new ideas could also be applied in the villages in the rebuilding of permanent schools and health clinics (such as the one in Baseri!).

    See slide show here>>

    With our remaining month and a half in Nepal, Cameron and I are undertaking the project of building one earthbag house in Baseri. To prepare for this, we be heading back out into the field in the next few days to volunteer with another organization on an earthbag building project in the villages. We will then return to Kathmandu, gather materials and tools for our own project, and head up to Baseri to begin! Though it is unlikely that this house will be completed before Cameron and I have to leave in December, we will be working with experienced earthbag engineers and supervisors so that we can leave the project in capable, trustworthy hands. This first earthbag house will serve multiple purposes – being a model house for the villagers to possibly base their own homes off of, as well as being a test to see if earthbags could be a potential material for the future, larger project of rebuilding the Baseri clinic!

    The second goal is more of a short term band-aid for a much larger problem. Clothing and blankets won’t directly fix the shelter issue, but they may be the difference between life and death in the winter.  Almost immediately after returning from trekking, we set out to find a way to send warm clothes up to some of the remote villages we stayed in. This goal is already becoming a reality thanks to the amazing people and products of Everest Hardwear, a Nepali manufacturing company that produces excellent clothing and trekking gear! Sonam Sherpa and Ghyami Hyolmo of the company were generous enough to sell us 100 high-quality jackets at a ridiculously low cost, as well as donating 100 fleece hats to be distributed in the villages of Rasuwa! Even though it meant a loss of some profit for them, they were more than happy to partner with us in this endeavor to help those in dire need. I’m happy to say that out of this experience, we not only acquired this clothing to help people, but we also made some wonderful friends.

    See slide show here>>

    Ram, who left on another trek a few days ago, took all these jackets and hats along with him to distribute them to the people of Rasuwa. Hopefully we’ll have some pictures of that to share once he returns! In the future, CCF will continue to work with Everest Hardware and other partners on this sort of project to provide potentially life-saving winter items to the people of Nepal who need them most!

    We are incredibly excited to be starting soon on this earthbag project and other CCF recovery programs – it’s an amazing and inspirational feeling to be doing this work! Stay tuned for more details and pictures in the future! Thank you!

    All the best,

    Grant

    Check out Everest Hardwear at their website (http://www.everesthardwear.com.np/) and on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Everest-Hardwear-371079756430780)!

     

  • Peace, Primates, and Productivity

    Peace, Primates, and Productivity

    Check out our very first vlog and some pictures from our adventures! Please leave a comment letting us know what you think! Thank you!

     

  • Frontline Fair Trade

    Frontline Fair Trade

    Never in anyone’s wildest dreams did we imagine that our small foundation, set up for rural health care and the education of Nepali girls, would be involved in one of the largest humanitarian disaster relief projects of this decade. Spurred on by the dire need of Nepali friends and their depiction of a country that came crashing down around them, there was never any question of if CCF would get involved, only how.

    On April 25th of 2015, CCF leapt into action. As news came to us, drop by drop, we broadcast it, far and wide, through every channel we had at our disposal. The kindness and generosity we at CCF observed during those hours of shocked silence on the morning of the 25th was overwhelming. Within hours of the news, your support came flooding in. Within days, that support was transformed into the most vital emergency aid: food, shelter, and medicine. Within less than a week, these resources were in the hands of the Nepali people. It is thanks to your prompt and generous actions that this, and much more, has been accomplished. It is thanks to you that CCF has been able to accomplish what it never before thought possible. Within less than a month of the earthquake, CCF had distributed $26,000 worth of food and shelter, and here is what that looks like:

    • Over 6,000 people immediately provided with food for one month
    • Approximately 1,200 people immediately provided with shelter 

    Thanks to the compassion of individuals hailing from every corner of the globe, CCF was able to rapidly reach thousands of people, spread through four Nepalese districts, all of which had been heavily affected and largely isolated from outside assistance.
    From June through August, we provided an additional $10,300 to the Association for Craft Producers (ACP) as a portion of our Artisan Relief Project. This money has been put towards rebuilding the homes of ACP artisans which were either destroyed or damaged during the Earthquakes.

    We Are Proud!
    The earthquake relief undertaken by CCF has been our largest project to date, both in number of resources expended, and lives impacted. As of September 10th, we have been able to raise a staggering total of $155,000! During the initial “emergency r elief phase” we distributed close to $40,000, now, with the need for immediate aid gradually diminishing, CCF has turned its focus on long-term rebuilding and recovery. Out of our remaining funds, we have set aside $60,000 for the reconstruction of the Durali Community Service Center (which houses the Baseri Clinic) and the remaining $55,000 for the process of permanently rebuilding homes, schools, and other vital facilities.

    Where Will We Go From Here?
    In light of all that has transpired, we at CCF felt obligated to fully explore and understand the impact of where we’ve been and where we will be going. To this end, in October of 2015, four representatives of the Conscious Connections Foundation (CCF), Chair Denise Attwood, Vice President Ric Conner, Research Associate Grant Gallaher, and Vice President Cameron Conner, will be traveling to Nepal. Our hope is that this work will result in a clear and concise list of recommendations, aimed at addressing where and how we can best help our Nepali partners begin to rebuild their villages, families, and lives. Ultimately, our goal is the restoration of these communities to the extent that there is no longer any need for any further earthquake relief and we can return CCF to its primary initiatives, including the Power of Five and Deurali Community Service Center.The Research
    The focus of our work in Nepal will be on the three primary Earthquake Relief Projects (ERPs) of CCF: Artisan Relief, Beseri Relief, and General Relief (check out CCFs upd ated website to learn more about each!). We hope to achieve the most accurate and useful information through a simple and elegant Nepali custom: having tea. By sitting down with those who have benefited from CCF assistance, or those who have played a key role in this relief process, we hope to have honest, open, and comfortable conversations. To find the most authentic idea of how and where CCF’s help is most needed, the four CCF representatives mentioned above will be trekking through the districts of Dhading and Ghorka for close to one month, visiting six CCF assisted villages. Following this initial month long stage, Denise and Ric will return to Spokane, while Grant and Cameron will remain in Nepal for an additional six weeks, continuing the research and evaluation and volunteering in the rebuilding efforts.Update!
    While in Kathmandu, Grant, Cameron, and fellow CCF partner, Ishwor Basnet, will also be attending a two day long course on the construction of natural, earthquake proof, affordable Earthbag houses, taught by former director of Builders without Borders, Dr. Owen Geiger. If practical, CCF hopes to propose rebuilding the Deurali Community Service Center in this style to the village committee of Baseri. If agreed upon, the clinic could then potentially be used as a model for other rebuilding projects in the area.Strength, Compassion, Resilience
    In my many trips to Nepal, I have seen many heart warming actions amidst unimaginable suffering. Through all this the Nepali people glide with a seemingly untouchable attitude of optimism. Perhaps the most stirring example of this came just days after the initial earthquake, days after the Deurali Community Service Center had been reduced to rubble. The story of the Baseri Clinic provides a fitting testament to the character of strength, compassion, and resilience possessed by the Nepali people, and a physical demonstration of CCF’s driving values. In this unique spirit of unshakable optimism, the villagers of Baseri unearthed the most useful supplies that were intact from the old clinic and, using what little materials they had, reopened their clinic on May 15th. With the supplies salvaged from the rubble, it now operates out of a makeshift tin hut. It was among the first buildings to be rebuilt. This new manifestation shows once again that, though the physical building of the old Community Center is no longer, its spirit lives on! Moreover, it is your support and compassion that has allowed for the cultivation of these channels through which this spirit now flows!

  • Light Up Rural Nepal!

    The Conscious Connections Foundation (CCF), a registered 501(c)3 EIN# 471602190 founded in 2014 by Ganesh Himal Trading, is working with Alison Thomson, Third-Wave Volunteers and Solight Design to bring SolarPuff lights to remote areas in Nepal where CCF has been working.  SolarPuff has committed to  donate between 100-200 lights that CCF can distribute to the areas where we have contacts and where there is dire need. In the future we are discussing the possibility that they ship the lights directly to Nepal for a low cost and then hopefully together we can help someone set up to sell them in Nepal, preferably in the remote areas.  Fully waterproof and shatterproof, with a built-in rechargeable battery, all-in-one SolarPuff lanterns hold a charge for up to 12 hours and stay bright all night. The small solar panel is viable for 10 years and the LED lights last 2-3 years. http://www.solight-design.com/#solarpuff These lights will be invaluable to people who have no electricity and in areas where electricity is erratic. To find our more about their fundraising to bring more lights to Nepal please visit https://www.crowdrise.com/lettherebelight/fundraiser/lahafinc

    Watch their beautiful video here:

     

  • Back to School Fair Trade Style 2015
    Denise Attwood
    Co-Owner
    This is the time of year when we in North America think “back to school”.  There’s a bit of excitement in the air as we anticipate minds filling with new ideas and dreams of a brighter world to come.  I have been thinking a lot about education of late as we delve deeply into learning about earthquake relief and the best way to distribute resources to those who are in grave need. I think about the learning required to rebuild lives and yet carry on tradition; the learning behind how to work with partners who are suffering great loss but who must still strive to support themselves and their families. Once again I am brought back to the importance of relationships and how it is through interaction and love for each other that we learn and accomplish the most.
    In the past few months since the earthquakes we have allocated resources to many of our producer partners through both Ganesh Himal Trading and through the Conscious Connections Foundation’s Artisan relief fund.  We have watched as these funds have been put directly into people’s hands and used to provide monetary relief, emergency food, tin for roofs, tarps, medicine and more. These resources were provided to directly address the self declared needs of those affected by the earthquake.  Having up to 30 year long relationships with the individuals dispersing these funds and knowing that we could trust their judgment has helped us learn and further appreciate how listening to your friends and trusting them to control resources results in amazing accomplishments. People are now beginning to rebuild and restore, and, in order to catalyze this process, as you have seen through our recent shipments, they are getting back to work.
    We are poised to learn more in the months to come as Ric, myself, and our son Cameron together with his friend Grant travel to Nepal, at our own
    Food and supplies delivered to Baseri, Nepal after the earthquake

    expense, to explore further how CCF and GHT funds have been used, evaluate their effect, learn about how to do it better and discuss with our partners in Nepal the next best steps in moving toward permanent rebuilding and what our role in that can be. We will spend a month visiting the villages and producers who received relief as well as talk with the village council in Baseri about the rebuilding of the clinic there. Then Cameron and Grant, taking a bridge year before they head to college, will spend the next 2 months looking at other small, medium and large scale aid to try to learn about what worked best and where.  Follow along by visiting the Conscious Connections Website. They will be writing a blog on our findings and we’ll post that on the CCF and GHT Facebook pages as well. This is a huge learning curve and you can be right there learning with us!

    Just as there is a need to restructure the trading system through relationship, partnering and Fair Trade, we believe that as the world deals increasingly with disaster we must learn to restructure the “aiding system” as well. It is imperative that we begin the discussion about relationship in aid, learning from those on the ground who we believe have much to teach us.

     

    Thank you for all of your help!
    Denise

     

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    UPDATE: The Baseri Health Clinic and surrounding village was destroyed in the massive earthquake today 4/25/2015.  It appears no lives were lost but all structures are destroyed. We will be trying to see if the infrastructure exists to send food and emergency supplies to the village. Then we will begin to help them rebuild. If you would like to help you can make your tax deductible donation to Conscious Connections Foundation by check at PO Box 342 Spokane, WA 99210 or by paypal. 100% of the funds will go to the rebuilding of this beautiful village and clinic. Thank you for your support.

     

    The Story of the Baseri Health Clinic,  Baseri Nepal

    Denise and Ric met Sita Gurung in 1984 while they were trekking through her remote village of Baseri, Nepal. She was 14 at the time! Sita was an enthusiastic girl in the village and immediately they became fast friends. Over time they dreamed together of someday building a clinic in her village where there had never been any healthcare before. When Sita’s mother, Ama Gurung passed in June of 2006 and Denise’s good friend Dr. Marilyn Ream passed in July of 2006 their memory gave Sita and Denise the inspiration to pursue that dream. Now 24 years after their initial meeting in Baseri they decided it was time to build a clinic!

    In the fall of 2007 Sita went back to her village and met with the village leaders in the area of Besari, in the mountainous region of Northwest Nepal to talk about creating a clinic.  The villagers were thrilled with the prospect of having their first health clinic ever! They were so interested in the idea that they formed their own non-profit, donated community land for the clinic and agreed to donate time and labor to helping build it. In the spring of 2008 Sita and Denise held a fundraiser at Denise’s parent’s house in Spokane and raised the initial money to start the construction. Denise contacted a friend of hers, Carol Schillios, who has a foundation for her work with women in Mali and asked if her foundation would be the umbrella 501©3 for the clinic so that donations would be tax deductible. Carol met with Sita and discussed the project and lovingly agreed to have the Fabric of Life Foundation became the home of the Baseri Clinic funds!

    In the meantime, the villagers chose a site that they felt was accessible to everyone in the surrounding area and started building in the fall of 2008. They agreed that they wanted this clinic to be available to anyone who needed help and that they would not turn anyone away. They designed a 4 room, one story building in the traditional architecture of the village and located a local water source. Trees were cut from their local community forest and milled by hand. Slate for the roof was cut from a nearby quarry (all by hand). By the spring of 2009 they were able to construct the main shell of the structure.

    Over the summer of 2009 the villagers were busy planting and harvesting their local crops of millet, barley, corn and rice. Sita and I were busy planning out the future staffing of the clinic as well as where to source electricity (the village of Baseri has none).  Sita and I dreamed of finding a local woman to staff the clinic. We preferred a woman who could be a mentor to young girls in the area. Remarkably, just as we were investigating the staffing, the Michalko family in Spokane approached Denise about helping the clinic and their main interest was in helping to find a permanent staff.  Sita then was able to find a young woman from Baseri who had dreamed of being a nurse but couldn’t afford the tuition. The Michalko’s jumped at the chance to fund her training. So, Nisha Gurung, a Baseri village girl, applied for and was one of 4 rural Nepali’s accepted to the field nursing program at the National Medical College in Birgunj, Nepal. In 2009 Sita visited Nisha’s college and was very impressed with the facilities. This program is a demanding 3 year program which will be finished in the fall of 2012.   When Nisha finishes she will be qualified to do minor surgery, maternal and infant health care and primary medicine and at that time she will become the lead medical personnel for the clinic. She is thrilled since this has been her life long goal and she never dreamed she would have the money to complete the schooling!  In the interim a local man who was a medic in the Nepal Army and worked for 10 years in the Army hospital in Kathmandu has agreed to fill in as the medical personnel. Sita had the medic come to Kathmandu to meet with Sita’s friend Dr. Holly Murphy, an Infectious Disease Specialist, who is working in CIWEC Canadian clinic in Kathmandu.  Holly worked with him to make lists of the supplies of medicines necessary for the village clinic and to make sure that everything needed would be ready for the clinic opening.

    Also in the summer of 2009, Sita was busy with a fundraiser in Seattle that raised money specifically for the solar, toilet and water systems for the clinic. The fundraiser was sponsored by the Living Earth Institute in Seattle http://living-earth.org/ and raised almost $5,000 for the clinic. There was a fantastic program of traditional singing and dancing by Sita and others and many members of the Nepal Seattle Society came to support the clinic. Sita, contributes the proceeds from her traditional music CDS to the clinic project.  With this money we were able to fund a solar panel, five small tube lights (the first light in Baseri!), a battery, the design and installation of a toilet system, a 5000 liter water tank and piping and have them installed in the clinic.

    The building was completed in the winter of 2010 and then a grand opening ceremony was scheduled for February. Sita, Denise, Ric and Cameron were all able to make their way to Baseri for the grand opening. Also two other people, Harimaya Gurung and Dhane Gurung, who had been instrumental to the construction of the clinic were also able to attend. The grand opening ceremony was held on February 26, 2010 with all of the villagers turning out and much music and fanfare and a ribbon cutting ceremony! On February 28 the first 35 people came to receive care! By Sept 29, 2010 1600 patients (an average of 10 people a day) have been seen at the clinic for everything from maternal health care issues to burns, breaks and intestinal disorders. The clinic is supplied with basic lab testing facilities for urine and blood tests an otoscope for ear infections, stethoscopes, a blood pressure cuff, thermometer, and saline iv drip system.

    News travels fast in the remote areas of Nepal and now people living in even more remote areas than Baseri have heard of the clinic and are coming seeking primary care treatment. It is obvious from the popularity of the clinic that we will need to increase the staffing so our next steps will be to create funding for 2 full time medical staff people and perhaps one part time assistant. The villagers have agreed to take on trying to keep the clinic stocked with medicines and the care and upkeep of the facilities. We have agreed to pay for the staffing.

    On this journey we have had incredible help from many different people. We have one 5 year old who raised over $70 selling bracelets he made and 10 year old twins who asked people to donate to the clinic for their birthday present. A 90+ year old man who is a friend of Sita’s has been a great supporter and dozens of others have given generously to this dream. This clinic is dedicated to the memory of two amazing women who have held the light aloft for many of us to follow in their service and love of humankind. Aama Gurung, Sita’s mother, was a kind and powerful woman who is from the village of Baseri and led by example. She gave Sita the opportunity to become the first female to have a high school education in the area. Amma Gurung instilled great faith and humanity in all she encountered.  Dr. Marilyn Ream, a physician in Spokane who worked in many rural clinics was bursting at the seams with compassion and love. Both were amazing healers in their own way.

    If you knew Aama and Marilyn you would know this was their dream too. Thanks to everyone who has helped. We’ll keep you posted along the way!

    If you would like to pay by check please make it payable to:

    The Conscious Connections Foundation
    PO Box 342
    Spokane, WA 99210
    Please write Nepal/Besari clinic on the memo line

  • Creating a Grassroots Healthcare Clinic in Nepal

    Sita Gurung, Denise Attwood, Ric Conner (Ganesh Himal Trading)

    The Story of the Baseri Health Clinic,  Baseri Nepal

    How does a small, locally owned, grassroots health clinic in Nepal get a start! Here’s the story of how the clinic in Baseri Nepal did!

    Denise and Ric (of Ganesh Himal Trading) met Sita Gurung in 1984 while they were trekking through her remote village of Baseri, Nepal. She was 14 at the time! Sita was an enthusiastic girl in the village who walked long hours to get an education. They became lifelong friends. Over time all of them dreamed together of someday building a clinic in Sita’s village where there had never been any healthcare before. In 2006 Sita’s mother, Ama Gurung and Denise’s good friend Dr. Marilyn Ream both passed away. Their lives and memory gave Sita and Denise the inspiration to pursue that dream.  24 years after their initial meeting in Baseri they decided it was time to build a clinic!

    In the fall of 2007 Sita went back to her village of Baseri  in the mountainous region of NW Nepal and met with the village leaders. She asked them if they were interested in helping to create a clinic.  The villagers were thrilled with the prospect of having their first health clinic ever! They formed their own non-profit, donated community land for the clinic and agreed to donate time and labor to help build it. The team was forming!

    In the spring of 2008 Sita and Denise held the first fundraiser in Spokane and raised the money to start the construction.  Carol Schillios, of the Fabric of Life Foundation, who works with women in Mali met with Sita and Denise, discussed the project and lovingly agreed to have the Fabric of Life Foundation became the home of the Baseri Clinic funds!

    In the meantime, the villagers chose a site that they felt was accessible to everyone in the surrounding area and started building in the fall of 2008. They agreed that they wanted this clinic to be available to anyone who needed help and that they would not turn anyone away. They designed a 4 room, one story building in the traditional architecture of the village and located a local water source. Trees were cut from their local community forest and milled by hand. Slate for the roof was cut from a nearby quarry (all by hand). By the spring of 2009 they were able to construct the main shell of the structure.

    Over the summer of 2009 the villagers were busy planting and harvesting their local crops of millet, barley, corn and rice. Sita and I were busy planning out the future staffing of the clinic as well as where to source electricity (the village of Baseri has none).  Sita and I dreamed of finding a local woman to staff the clinic. We wanted to find a woman who could be a mentor to young girls in the area. Remarkably, just as we were investigating the staffing, a Spokane family approached Denise about helping the clinic. They wanted to help with finding qualified permanent medical staff.  Sita knew of a young woman from Baseri who had dreamed of being a nurse but couldn’t afford the tuition. The Spokane family jumped at the chance to fund her training. So, Nisha Gurung, a Baseri village girl, applied for and was one of 4 rural Nepali’s accepted to the field nursing program at the National Medical College in Birgunj, Nepal. She started the demanding 3 year program in the fall of 2009 and Sita visited her at the college soon after.  Nisha has been a star student and will be finished with her program this fall, 2012.   When Nisha finishes she will be qualified to do minor surgery, maternal and infant health care and primary medicine and at that time she will become the lead medical personnel for the clinic. She is thrilled since this has been her life long goal and she never dreamed she would have the money to complete the schooling!

     

    While Nisha has been in college, a local man, who was a medic in the Nepal Army and worked for 10 years in the Army hospital in Kathmandu, has  filled  the position of medical personnel for the clinic. In 2009 he come to Kathmandu to meet with Sita’s friend Dr. Holly Murphy, an Infectious Disease Specialist, who is working in CIWEC Canadian clinic in Kathmandu.  Holly worked with him to make lists of the supplies of medicines necessary for the village clinic and to make sure that everything needed would be ready for the clinic opening.

    Also in the summer of 2009, Sita was busy with a fundraiser in Seattle that raised money specifically for the solar, toilet and water systems for the clinic. The fundraiser was sponsored by the Living Earth Institute in Seattle http://living-earth.org/ and raised almost $5,000 for the clinic. There was a fantastic program of traditional singing and dancing by Sita and others and many members of the Nepal Seattle Society came to support the clinic. Sita, contributes the proceeds from her traditional Nepali music CDS to the clinic project.  With this money we were able to fund a solar panel, five small tube lights (the first light in Baseri!), a battery, the design and installation of a toilet system, a 5000 liter water tank and piping and have them installed in the clinic.

     

    The building was completed in the winter of 2010 and then a grand opening ceremony was scheduled for February. Sita, Denise, Ric and Cameron were all able to make their way to Baseri for the grand opening. Two other Nepali’s, Harimaya Gurung and Dhane Gurung, who have been instrumental in the construction of the clinic were also able to attend. The grand opening ceremony was held on February 26, 2010 with all of the villagers turning out and much music and fanfare and a ribbon cutting ceremony!

    On February 28 the first 35 people came to receive care! By Sept 29, 2010 1600 patients (an average of 10 people a day) had been seen at the clinic for everything from maternal health care issues to burns, breaks and intestinal disorders. As of Feb 2011 over 3600 had been served! They have been able to save 3 peoples lives, one pregnant mother and child and one very dehydrated young boy! The clinic is supplied with basic lab testing facilities for urine and blood tests an otoscope for ear infections, stethoscopes, a blood pressure cuff, thermometer, and saline iv drip system.

    News travels fast in the remote areas of Nepal and now people living in even more remote areas than Baseri have heard of the clinic and are coming seeking primary care treatment. It is obvious from the popularity of the clinic that we will need to increase the staffing so in the spring of 2012 we hired a young woman of Baseri as a part time assistant to help with record keeping.  Our next steps will be to explore funding for 2 full time medical staff people. The clinic charges cost for medicine and a small fee for those who can afford it and a bank account has been opened in a nearby village. Their goal is to be able to replenish their medical supplies with the funds that they receive. The villagers of Baseri take part in  the care and upkeep of the facilities. Our organization has agreed to pay for the staffing.

    In the summer of 2011, Greg Starling, a board member of the The Nepalese Women’s Health Foundation contacted Denise about their interest in helping to fund women’s health care at the clinic. Sita met with their board member Dr. Devi Dawady, and they agreed to fund specific women’s health care issues at the clinic for $1000 for 3 years. With the first $1000 granted  we have been able to create 1) an emergency fund for pregnant women who may need emergency transport to Kathmandu, 2) purchase prenatal vitamins that are made available to all pregnant women who come to the clinic free of charge and 3) begin to explore hiring a teacher for an adult women’s literacy program at the clinic.

    At present, in the summer of 2012, the clinic is serving on average 10-15 people per day. Last February Sita went to the clinic twice and held meetings with the village board, the medic and the village people in an effort to determine how to make the clinic more effective and self-sustaining. Great progress was made and the village board is taking on more responsibilities. Records are being kept of the illnesses treated and medicines distributed, vitamins are being distributed to women who are pregnant and much more.

    Sita has been working hard to put a strong foundation in place by talking with the village committee members and organizing a plan for the future and her hard work is paying off! The clinic is truly growing from the ground up! In September of 2012  when Nisha  graduates from nursing school  Sita has arranged for her to attend a 3 month training in intensive care at the Dhulikhel teaching hospital in Kathmandu. When she is finished she will return to Baseri and become their lead caregiver! The first woman health care provider in the first clinic in Baseri! A dream come true!

    Nisha has decided that she would like to live at the clinic so our next phase for fundraising is to raise $2500 to build a 4 room addition to the clinic. Two rooms for Nisha and two rooms that we can use for guest physicians, health care educators and perhaps women’s literacy or economic development groups in the future. This project will hopefully be completed this fall.

    On this journey we have had incredible help from many different people. We have one 5 year old who raised over $70 selling bracelets he made and 10 year old twins who asked people to donate to the clinic for their birthday present. A 90+ year old man, Mr. Biele, who is a friend of Sita’s has been a great supporter and has donated more than $10,000. There are dozens of others who have given generously to this dream. This clinic is dedicated to the memory of two amazing women who have held the light aloft for many of us to follow in their service and love of humankind. Aama Gurung, Sita’s mother, was a kind and powerful woman who is from the village of Baseri and led by example. She gave Sita the opportunity to become the first female to have a high school education in the area. Aama Gurung instilled great faith and humanity in all she encountered.  Dr. Marilyn Ream, a physician in Spokane who worked in many rural clinics throughout the world  was bursting at the seams with compassion and love. Both were amazing healers in their own way and a huge inspiration to others.

    Aama and Marilyn inspired this dream and so many of our friends have worked to make it come true!  Thanks to everyone who has helped. We’ll keep you posted along the way!

    If you would like to make a donation:

    For online donations, visit http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/denise-attwood/besarihealthclinicold

    To make a donation by check, please make the check payable to “The Fabric of Life Foundation” and send to the address below. Please write Nepal/Besari clinic on the memo line.

    The Fabric of Life Foundation

    PO Box 547

    Edmonds, WA 98020

    Please write Nepal/Besari clinic on the memo line

     

     

  • Nepal Health Clinic

     

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    Grand opening day Feb 2010

    In 2007 Ganesh Himal Trading owners and their  friend Sita Gurung embarked on creating a small primary health care clinic in the rural Nepali village of Baseri near Ganesh Himal. With great help from the villagers and many US donors, the clinic was opened with a local medic in February of 2010. Now one year later over 3000 people have been treated for gastrointestinal problems, burns, broken bones, pregnancy issues and more. For the a more complete story see our First Giving Page for the clinic.

    The Fabric of Life Foundation is the clinic’s fiscal sponsor.  In early April Sita and Denise met with Carol Schillios, the founder of FOL, to evaluate the progress of the clinic. We are all thrilled that the clinic has been such a huge success and is serving so many who never had local health care before. We look forward to many years of local health care in the future and the possibility of transferring this village inspired model to other local communities![/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]