My heart is filled with admiration for three women whose courage and dedication have helped to change the lives of cleft palate children and young students.
They live in Nepal, one of the world’s most beautiful countries. It has been called a “Tiny Mountain Kingdom” and is filled with raw natural beauty. Nepal’s crown jewel, Mt. Everest, lies among the highest peaks of the Himalayas stretching the length of the country. Despite Nepal’s ancient temples, and breathtaking vistas it is undergoing a brutal civil war in which an estimated thirteen thousand have been killed in the last nine years. The group that has suffered most are villagers outside Kathmandu. The capital is Kathmandu and is very different from the rural areas. It is a city that was noted in a new publication “The City Book” as being the fourteenth top city in the world. But when one leaves the borders of Kathmandu it is a very primitive world, much as it was eighty years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
