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Thanks for letting us tell the story of our service trek through
Nepal on behalf of the Mount Everest Foundation for Sustainable
Development of Nepal and Tibet. Here is a photo showing Nirinjan Rai,
Elselien Te Hennepe, and John Vavruska looking at a photo of a Lami
Danda village family John took 20 years before. Niranjan spent the
morning hours trying to locate this family. However, it seems they
had all left, seeking better opportunities elsewhere. In fact, John
said the village was much quieter with far fewer people than when he
lived in the area 20 years ago. Even though it seems like a very
green and agriculturally productive area where a hard-working family
can grow to crops a year, plenty to sustain itself. Why is that?
Hmmmm.
Here is a photo showing a health post sign board in a village four
days walk below Patale. Its a simple cartoon-like information board,
encouraging people to take care of their sick children and if their
kids don't get better quickly, to consult a health clinic. We hope
that we will be able to post such informational sign boards around
Patale village health clinic in the near future.
Here is a photo showing the mighty Dudh Khosi River. The same river
flows past Mount Everest. Here we are seeing the river from the
foothills below Patale, and at this low altitude (about 350 meters
above sea level) the river is enormous, about 200 meters wide. "Dudh"
means milk, and "Khosi" means river. The "milk river" gets its name
from the glacial silt which fills the river up in its higher
reaches, while down here, the river is a beautiful aquamrine blue,
surrounded by tiny villages, rice paddy terraces, banana, pipal,
banyan and pine trees
Thanks for listening
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