Newsletter 1 - 2016
Dear family, friends and supporters
We have been in Nepal for one week today, and we have been so busy we forgot what day it was,
When we arrived in Kathmandu last Monday we stayed in a hotel for two nights then left for the village in the mountains where we were going to plan our village visit which was about 150 kilometres from Kathmandu.
We left the hotel on the Wednesday morning and headed for the hills which was a ten hour 4x4 mountain ride seeing loads of landslides on the way which blocked the roads making them just passable for the 4x4 vehicles, however we reached our destination on time,
When we come to the end of the road we had to take all of our belongings out of the truck and set off on a one hour trek by foot for about 2 kilometres, We were greeted by about fifty of the villagers which played fluted and drummed music until we reached the village of Dumkhim.
The footpaths were no wider the 2 / 3feet wide with drops to one side from 10 feet to four kilometres to the bottom of the mountain. Very scary, but we were protected by having the village Sherpas which were our guardian angel either side of us all the way.
When we reached the village we were welcomed by all off the villagers which there are about 300 people, us not knowing that we are the first WHITE PEOPLE to ever come to there village,
They made a big arch made of welcome flowers, and a big welcome sign on the school playground. The children just starred with amazement never seeing a white person before.
We were made very welcome and ready to enjoy our visit and work in this village, after the welcoming we were showed to the house we were going to stay in, it was very badly cracked by the earthquake they had last year, it was another half kilometre trek on very steep footpaths from the village school were we were greeted to the house,
All that they have in the village is running water, and nothing else, it's like going back 100 years, our accommodation was very put together having a board as the bed on four props, the pillows were like sandbags, jug and bucket shower very cold water outside behind the plastic sheeting, outside hole in the ground toilet, but the weather never goes no lower the 10 degrees so never that cold.
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Best regards,
Bob and Jenny
The orphanage fund.