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19
Feb
- Video of the pouring of concrete
floor
at Hope Centre in Gulmi, really
interesting how they do this in Nepal,
with lots of people, this is one big
pour and they do it all in one day,
starting with filling the columns.
Click
for Video |
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6 Feb - Photos
from Ganga
(click for all) - "Please
find attached photos I took at Hope
Disability Centre. How sad are the lives
of people with Disability in Gulmi
district. Our Hope Centre building looks
great, soon the slab will be put on the
second floor. All these patients came in
Hope Centre today. Hope Centre employs a
man who, amongst other things, grows
mushrooms for sale. This year there has
very good training for mobile repair and
mushroom growing. Twenty people with
disabilities from ABILIS and also twenty
people took loans. Soon we are going to
start sewing and honey making training.
Thank you, supporters, so much for your
great efforts!" |
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5
Feb
- People to Admire -
How did he build his boat? It’s a
question armless boatie Rod Haines
answers with a smile – with his toes, of
course. Even though it floats and spends
summers taking Rod and wife Leonie on
adventures, the boatahome is actually a
motorhome registered with the New
Zealand Motor Caravan Association.
Click for Story and Video link |
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5 Feb - The
Fundraising event held by Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK event has
raised a total
of £11,124.68
for the Hope Centre in Gulmi. The money
has now arrived in Hope's bank account,
a total of Rs 14,00,000 which is
around NZ$22,000 a fantastic amount and
part of this money will be used to buy a
small ambulance (Suzuki or Mahindra
Jeep) to transport patients to and from
the Hope Centre. Thanks so much
Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK for
the fundraising. |
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4
Feb
- Coldest Winter in Kashmir at -28
degrees C - Click on image for snow
photo Gallery at Hope Centre Srinagar,
Kashmir, India. |
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3
Feb - MEND is
supporting the set up an outreach office
of
Hope Centre Kashmir for documenting
and assessing disabled persons of the
Bandipora district in Kashmir, India.
One physiotherapist and one helper/
field worker will be working from this
centre. Bandipora district is one of the
22 districts in Jammu and Kashmir state
in northern India. The district is
bounded by Kupwara district in the west,
Baramulla district in the south and
Kargil, Srinagar and Ganderbal districts
in the east.
Click on image to enlarge Google Earth
image of the District |
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3
Feb
- Dr Masood Shah of the Society for Uplifting
of Kashmir
(Uplift Kashmir)
started the Facebook page .
Click
HERE to
Open |
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2
Feb
- Ganga is
selling the first Mushrooms grown at
Hope Centre Nepal, This is a project
supported by ABILIS Finland to train 40
disabled persons at Hope Centre Nepal
and then back them up with micro-loans
so they can buy materials, pay rent for
premises, and also buy tools . Click to
enlarge photo -
More mushroom photos here |
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2
Feb
- This young
man (25) came to Hope because he was
100% deaf
after testing him they thought, but
trying a hearing aid after cleaning his
ears full of wax, Ganga tried to
communicate with him but she found he
could hear, but couldn't speak for all
these years . Click to
enlarge photo |
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1 Feb - Michael
a chartered
accountant from London is volunteering
at the Hope Centre in Nepal at the
moment. He is teaching computer skills
to staff and disabled small business
owners supported by Hope, mainly spreadsheets but also
backing up files, etc. Click to
enlarge photo |
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22
Jan - Here you can see how they
build the second floor at Hope
centre in Nepal. First go up
the pillars which have reinforcing bar
inside.. now they will tie them together
with beams at top all made with steel
bar.. then the slab floor.. which they
pour all in one BIG day.. maybe 100
people all mixing and carrying cement up
and down by hand! So in 3 weeks
that will be made.. supported by 100s of
bamboos that hold the corrugated tin
that is fastened under the steel
framework.. and keep it all in place
until dry. Click on image for
more |
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20 Jan
-
Hope Centre Gulmi report for ABILIS
sponsored training project in .pdf format
Include stories of successful trainees. |
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17
Jan 2012 - MEND has sponsored the
purchase of a new wood
heater for Hope Disability Centre Kupwara,
Khasmir, India. It is Winter there and
very cold, so the heater is very
welcome. Click to enlarge. |
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11 Jan
-
Click on Hope Disability Centre logo,
Srinagar, Kashmir, India to download
their latest newsletter in .pdf format
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8
Jan 2012
-
Click on image see photos of the
construction of the second floor pillars
of Hope Centre, Gulmi, Nepal.
This project is sponsored by an
Australian lady. |
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7 Jan
-
Microsoft through
TechSoup NZ is sponsoring MEND NZ
with donated software for their
computers.
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6
Jan 2012
-
Click on image to read
interview published in UK Everest Times
about Ganga Rayamajhi, the manager of
Hope Centre, Nepal during her visit to
the UK in December. |
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20
Dec - Today
Ganga had a 2 hour long TV
interview for a documentary.
Lots of questions about the fundraising
and her background. As soon as we can
hold of the video we will publish. Ganga
is very happy in London for the
International Disability Day
celebrations and that so much funds have
been raised by all Nepali People. Please
click on image for Ganga's speech video,
its all in Nepali though. |
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19 Dec
-
The Fundraising event held by
Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK event has
raised a total
of £11,124.68
for the Hope Centre in Gulmi.
Ganga also visited some of MEND's
sponsors in the UK. New photos have been
uploaded, please click on image to see
then all. |
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13
Dec - MEND is seeking the next
most needy area to set up a new
rehabilitation centre in the Kashmir
Valley that will expand Hope Centre's
services to many more neglected kids and
youth with disabilities." Anantnag is
one of the districts being considered,
which had a lot of years of militancy
and lack of medical facilities. It would
be great to get support from Kashmiris
who live overseas to make this new
centre modern and effective!
Click on image for more |
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12 Dec
-
MEND
Newsletter December is now online |
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11
Dec - If you know of anyone who
has a spare hearing aid we also recycle
them! Thanks to the Hearing Association
of NZ and other donors we have helped
200 deaf kids and youth in the past year
to hear well.
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8 Dec
-
Introducing our new Treasurer
Sarah Nicolson (left on photo).
Sarah and her friend Nicola
Macklin visited Hope Centre
Gulmi, Nepal this year where they met
Rob, our Director. Both worked on some
projects, and both expressed that they
were very keen to get more involved with
MEND's projects, which resulted in
Sarah's appointment as Treasurer after
Brian's retirement. Nicola will also be
involved with MEND on special projects
in the future. Both are full of energy
and have impressive CVs. We are sure
they will be a great asset to MEND. |
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7 Dec -
Brian Clarke,
MEND's
valuable treasurer for a number of years
has recently resigned to hand over his
position to Sarah Nicolson. We like to
thank Brian and his wife Judith for
their great support, work and their
continuing support of the disabled in
Nepal, they are sponsoring several
children's school fees and have visited
the centre last year. We wish them well
and we are sure they will keep an
interest in MEND's activities in the
future. Again, Thank you Brian and
Judith. |
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6 December
-
The Fundraising event held by
Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK event was
a huge SUCCESS and it represents first
of its kind ever organised in UK in
recent years. We should be proud of
their accomplishment and everyone had a
great time. We understand that a large
amount was raised for Hope Disability
Centre at Gulmi. More details as they
come to hand, in the meantime check out
their website for many photos. Click on
image. |
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5 Dec -
A typical bus ride from Kathmandu to Dolakha
on YouTube, click on image.
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4 December
-
Click on image for
Team photo of Hope Disability Centre Kupwara,
Kashmir. Celebration of
International Day of Persons with
Disabilities.
Dear All, It
is my pleasure to inform you that we
celebrated International Day of Persons
with Disabilities at Hope Disability
Centre; SHS, Kupwara on 02 December
2011. It was attended by Government
officials from district administration
apart from our beneficiaries. The event
showcased some competitive activities
among persons with ...
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30 Nov
- Ganga, the
manager of Hope Disability Centre, Gulmi,
Nepal and her companion have arrived in
the UK as guest of Gulmi Samaj UK which is organising
a dinner and dance party fundraising on
4 Dec for Hope Centre, she will stay at
the home of Chairman Mr. Thapa.
Photos of her trip added to the Photo
Gallery - Click on Image to view, new
photos will be updated as we receive
them. |
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29 Nov -
We have added a Guestbook for
your Feedback, please select
from the main menu on the left or click
on image. |
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28 Nov -
New photos
of Kupwara building added to the Photo
Gallery - Click on Image |
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26 Nov - Buy a
Dinghy for only $849 inc. GST and support
a surgery.
Weight: Only 35 kg
Seats are sealed & waterproof for
buoyancy
Colours: Grey, Red, Yellow,
Blue, Green, Black, Rescue-Orange
2.5
x 1.3 metre polyethylene, tough, stable,
easy-to-row, easy-to-clean and carry.
Click on image to
enlarge or go to the
MEND Shop Page |
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25 Nov -
A great slide show about Ganga and
Hope Disability Centre, Gulmi
with lots of interesting photos. These
images are from a Powerpoint
presentation that Ganga will present at
the Gulmi Samaj UK fundraising on 4 Dec
in UK.
Made by Nina Wells.
This is
actually the best presentation to get a
good idea of what is happening at the
centres.
Click on image to view the slides.
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24 Nov - Anna
Penrose (UK) is a great
fundraiser for MEND and Hope
Disability Centre. Anna will
meet Ganga when she is visiting the UK,
invited by Gulmi Samaj UK which is organising a dinner
and dance party fundraising on 4 Dec
2011 for Hope Centre, Gulmi,
Nepal. Ganga will meet several other
supporters during her short trip. Click
on image for link of Anna's nomination
to carry the Olympic Flame with Lloyds
TSB in the London 2012 Olympic Torch
Relay. |
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23 Nov - Final
MEND Accounts and Director's reports 2011 are
now available,
click on image |
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21 Nov -
A generous donation from an Australian
lady allows us to start building a
second floor on the Hope Centre building
at Gulmi. Work will start soon. |
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17 November
- Click on image for
photographs of Hope Disability Centre Kupwara, which is now functional
with following rooms;
1.
Physiotherapy Room.
2. Office
3.
Night Stay Room
4. Meeting Room,
along with
5. Kitchen and Bathroom
Beneficiaries have already started to
visit this treatment centre to avail
benefits of our services. we are in need
of some physiotherapy equipment to
upscale it in order to enhance our
quantity and quality of services here.
MEND has supported to construct fence
around the the vicinity of this centre
and installation of Roof, which is
likely to be completed in 10 days. I
would like to thank both ALTSO and MEND
in lending full support to accomplish
the construction of this Centre, which will help us in
Rehabilitating more and more Persons
with disabilities in the area.
Sami Wani, Director Hope
Disability Centre, Srinagar, Kashmir |
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5 Nov - A new
option at the top of the menu.
MEND makes excellent use of every
dollar donated to it. If you would
like to support our work, please use the
Gift and Donation Form to make a payment. Click on the
Form to download it in Word format. |
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1 Nov - Make
your own wood stove.
If you can get a large old gas
bottle turn it upside down, cut a door
hole and door that is airtight, put
chimney on you can make very good
woodstove. Put a grill inside for making
fire on and some small holes for
ventilation at bottom. This is sample Rob
made from smallest gas bottle and good
for a small room. But get the large gas
bottle and it will get hot and keep the
room warm. If you can use glass door
that is heat proof.
Click for photos. |
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26 Oct -
ABILIS Finland has granted funds to
train 40 disabled persons at Hope Centre
Nepal ... and then back them up with
micro-loans so they can buy materials,
pay rent for premises, and also buy
tools. So the first training was in
mobile phone repair and there are 12
disabled persons doing that for 2
months. And 12 persons attended the
mushroom farming training held at Govt
Agric Centre. Each trainee went home and
made 5 plastic bags with boiled straw
inside and the mushroom spores were
inserted through holes in the plastic..
so after 1 month VOILA! Lovely white
baby mushroom. At $4/kg that will be
good business because few are growing
them there.
So now they need decent
sized tunnels that are quite dark inside
and yet moist which we help with the
black plastic and the seeds for shitake
mushrooms... grown separately and the
marketing. We have one tunnel being made
at Hope as the pilot!
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for more photos |
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17 Oct -
Denis Buchanan is Rob's
(Director MEND) brother who owns a fruit
orchard in Tasmania. He is a keen
tramper in the Himalayas and recently
visited the Hope Centre in Srinagar,
Kashmir. Denis looked at fruit growing
in the area and how to improve
production and .....
Click for more. |
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15 Oct - Sam (left)
donated the five magnifier for partial
blindness and three Blind stick which
can be folded easily. Ganga, the manager
of Hope Tamghas on the right and Hope's
center Physiotherapist Pradip Rai
Click
for more photos |
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14 Oct -
A poor epilepsy woman received
a loan from Abilis to buy 2 pregnant
goats. Rather than Hope have to pay
regular bills each month for a patient's
medicine, ( which we sponsor if they are
very poor.) it is better to plan a
micro-loan so that they can start their
own small business.. so they can buy the
medicine with their own funds. So two
pregnant goats will soon be 6 goats,
since Mama Goat has two babies within!
And a pregnant goat costs $125
each...with 2 babies. So the goat herd
of 6 will be worth $825 in 6 months...
In Nepal if someone can earn $!00 per
month that is a minimum but decent
salary! Goat farming suits the drier,
but grassy parts of Nepal where few
other businesses can be started.
Click
for more photos |
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25 Sept
- Photos just taken of 20 Army boys all
tidying up our access road to Hope
Centre, Nepal, what a great resource and
no one seems to call on the Army to help
and these boys all want to come EVERY
DAY! We had a grant from the local
council of NZ$1000 to level and gravel
the road... and now a top finishing of
harder limestone gravel will be done
soon..
Click
here for
photos |
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23 Sept
- Here is an article in NZ newspaper
about a great NZ NGO that gathers up
surplus medical equipment from all over
NZ and allows MEND and others to
literally take a shopping trolley around
their storage facility in Auckland ...
in fact a supermarket of recycled
essential PT / medical items... and we
just brought a load of physiotherapy
equipment to Nepal kindly donated by
MAA. and the bonus is that we can take
free any items if for projects
overseas.!!
Thanks MAANZ -
Click to download article in .pdf
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19 Sept
- Hazim, at the age of 8 years is
suffering from hearing and speech
impairment. He lost his father, when
Indian army shot him dead in a tragic
incident and his mother takes care of
him now. She was eagerly waiting for
help that can make her son able to hear.
Last week, on 7th September 2011, she
came to know about Hope Disability
Centre (HDC) and she visited here on the
same day with her son. Hazim was
immediately provided
...........
Click for full story
(pdf) |
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17 Sept
- Om is testing a donated ALTSO
artificial hand for its functional
ability and Prakash is now walking with
recycled prosthetic parts kindly donated
to MEND by APC and ALC Limb Centres in
Sydney Australia. He was fitted at NOPC,
Nepal Orthotic and Prosthetic Centre
Kathmandu"
Click for Photos
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16 Sept
- Hope Centre team held a camp in Naram
village 25km from the centre. Julie and
Marcus' motor bike took them there...
lots of kids with wax and pain in
ears... all sorts of disabilities... we
now start working on those cases... some
needing big surgery so they can walk...
also a bench chair we want to have made
for INSIDE Hope for visitors.. Also the
6 local kids coming for some extra
tuition at Hope.. given by the
physiotherapist for 2 hours... kids here
all want to learn more as they have
homes and environments with little
opportunity to do so....
Click for Photos |
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15 Sept
- Sita had her 2nd operation on the
other clubfoot
Click for Photos
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14 Sept
-
September newsletter Hope Centre
(pdf) |
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12 Sept
- Gulmi Samaj UK is organising a dinner
and dance party fundraising on 4 Dec
2011 for Hope Centre, Gulmi,
Nepal. Please check out their website:
Gulmi Samaj UK
Click on
invitation image to enlarge.
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9 September - Rotary
Club of Dhulikhel-Nepal implementing a
matching grant # 74335 to support school
education project in Bhuwoneswori Lower
Secondary School Baluwa. In the school
physical infrastructure are very poor
and students of grade five does not have
proper desk and benches to accommodate
45 student. On 28 August 2011 two
visitor from New Zealand visited the
school and surrounding village Baluwa.
During School visit Sarah Nicolson and
Nicola Macklin handed over the school
furniture.
Click for MORE
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8 September
- A DAY in THE LIFE of Rob in
Nepal: We were busy yesterday,
mobile phone repair started which has a
2 hour mobile phone study and 1 hour
computer basic course so the trainees
can programme the phones too.. and we
sent another two boys to work in
furniture factory in Kathmandu both
happy to have a job and we identified a
small girl with bent neck needing
intensive PT, she and grandfather will
be here again tomorrow for 1 month every
day to correct that. We attended a
monthly regular screening of disabled
persons of Gulmi and so we get new cases
there, so photos and stories of ABILIS
training coming, bamboo cut now for
building mushroom farming building and
sewing trainer came and we took a hour
or so to negotiate the cost and
conditions for training of of 23 year
old former patient, burn hand boy to do
diploma course so he can cut and make
clothes better, nice and who will help
us lots in future at low cost... so lots
on... we even got a 50,000 rupee grant
approved at LDO office ( Mayor) and that
is for gravelling the driveway as that
is grass and slippery and I got new old
Indian bike going but found hole in
petrol tank so we bogged that with epoxy
that is 4 valve job sounds like 400 CC
but is only 125 cc!
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5 September - See
great clay & stone cooking fireplace at
Hope Centre Nepal, made by volunteers
Sarah and Nicola from NZ but working in
Australia! Click image to
enlarge
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29 August -
MEND's webmaster is working on a new
website for "Voice Ghana', formerly
known as VOLPHIG Volta project, check it
out, almost ready. Click on
image
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28 August -
Chetan, a little boy who has Cerebral
Palsy is making a lot of progress since
his mother brings him every day for
exercising and treatment.. so that is
the reason for success..! The walker was
donated from NZ and the stand designed
and built by Rob.
Thanks
ALTSO for continues support for him.
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photos
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27 August -
Tricycle builder in India
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for more photos
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26 August -
'Opening of residential and post surgery
care hostel has come as a relief to
Ghulam Haider, who is a carpenter by
profession as his son Asif Haider,14,
required continuous rehabilitation
services after he received CTEV (club
foot deformity) corrective surgery.
Ghulam Haider said, "Initially I could
not afford medical treatment for my son Asif that is why his condition left
unattended for almost 13 years. It was
in June 2011 that my friend
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22 August - We
need sponsors for these patients. This
hand of a woman aged 30 was burned when
she was a baby. All patients
are from our last camp at Kirani.. on
road from Ridi to Santipur ...in Gulmi,
Nepal
Click on Image to download full page
with photos
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20 August -
The great "unfolding' story of this burn
victim boy's arm. Dr. Kiran Nakarmi at
Model Hospital plastic surgery team did
first of 3 surgeries to release the
burns in July 2011. He will have 2nd
surgery to release his elbow soon and
finally surgery to release his hand.
Then we will help him start his
business with training and a loan/
grant... So in a month or
so when the Model Hospital plastic
surgery team call him, he will have the
next stage done.. freeing up his
elbow... and later his 3rd surgery for
wrist.. Thanks so much Dr
Kiran Nakarami and the Model Team.. and
ALTSO...
Click
here for Photo Gallery.
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19 August - One of our staff, Ajidshafi , who is a Speech Therapist and audiologist & myself had went Kupwara to attend hearing aid camp where beneficiaries with hearing disability were consulted. These beneficiaries were identified by our community workers. All these hearing aids were fitted to beneficiaries at
HDC Kupwara .
Click on Image to download full report
with photos
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18 August -
Mubeena, is a beneficiary of Hope Disability
Centre, Kashmir, we have visited several times to her home and she was coming to HDC in 2008-09 for rehabilitation.. During that year we used to pick and drop the beneficiaries. She came her with a walker on top of our HDC van. Now she is able to walk with a walking
stick after suffering for 18 years.
Click on image to enlarge.
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11 August
- Nina Wells
has completed a video for ALTSO about
Teke with footage supplied by Rob
Buchanan and MEND, click on Image for
video in YouTube. |
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9 August -
Deformity
Empowerment Foundation (DEF).
Maiduguri the Borno state capital,
North-eastern Nigeria, has witnessed
increased limb injuries from gun shots
resulting in amputation arising from
Islamic insurgence within the year which
is still on going. Effort to set up limb
prosthesis centre was intensified within
the year to meet the rising need of the
prosthesis for the victims of this
violence with the donation of three
cartons of limb components by Amputee
association of Sydney through MEND NZ.
Select DEF page from the main
menu on the left |
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30 July
- Ganga and Rob visited the new Hope
Centre in Kupwarra, Kashmir yesterday
and were pleased to see it will be soon
inaugurated. A number of items remain to
be
finished. But great to see that already the
4 fulltime Hope staff, funded by
Handicap International support, are busy
identifying and assessing and referring
patients from this Kupwarra centre for
treatment. ALTSO sourced the funds
(about US$25000) from the Dorothea Haus
Ross Foundation to build this Centre.
Click image for photo page |
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24 July
- Kathy our secretary has arrived in
Kashmir and joined Rob Buchanan and
Ganga, the manager of Hope Centre Nepal,
Kathy has been busy and already seeing
lots of things. Kathy Light is a very
generous person and MEND's main sponsor,
she and her Husband Ken have helped
establish new centres in
Nepal and Kashmir and helped many
disabled people on their way to independence.
Click on photo to enlarge.
Kathy on the left with Ganga and a post
leprosy patient in his trike. Rob in the
background. |
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21 July
- Rob and Ganga (Manager Hope Nepal)
here in a mountain area above the new
project location in Kashmir with DaD
partners on horseback. They were
actually assessing some new patients
while on this short ride !! They are
family of the boys holding the reins...
Click to enlarge photo, from the
right on the horses: Rob, Dr.Waris,
Ganga, Dr Masood. |
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17 July
- Rob is back in Kashmir as they start a
new project and centre for disabled
persons in another remote district. They
are helping a 30 year old man with
physiotherapy and soon an orthoses so he
can walk better, after being shot by
security forces recently. He
saw an old man lying in blood on the
road...so went over to help him and then shot him in the knee and
then 3 others came to the rescue and all
were shot - it's a dangerous region -
Photos in Gallery -
More about Kashmir |
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29 June
- This young patient from
Janakpur, Eastern Nepal has serious burns to arm and body.
This is a huge case. Dr.Kiran K. Nakarmi,
MD, Director, Interplast Surgical
Outreach Program Department of Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery Kathmandu
Model Hospital Kathmandu has offered to
operate this patient. Release the axilla
(arm) in the first stage. It requires
lots of skin graft from the thigh, and
do the elbow in second stage after three
months, but the patient will need to
stay in Kathmandu for almost a month
....
MORE |
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26 June
-
Sita is a 25 year old woman from a poor
family in Chitwan, Nepal. She was born
with two club feet.
This is a case of neglected bilateral
club feet and required MAJOR surgery,
probably more than once in each foot.
This may be followed by casting. The
duration of treatment may vary from 2
months to one year. If an ilizarove
frame is applicable, she will need to
stay in hospital for at least five
months. The
surgery of the right clubfoot has now been
done in Kathmandu Hospital -
Photo Gallery with images of operation is updated |
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11 June
- Rob is now in Phaplu, back from
opening the Ideal Health Centre up near
Mt Everest area, after a 12 hours walk
over a mountain and wild rain while
doing so after a hot shower is making
life easier.. some hard climbing..but
body taking it well.. even had a porter
help over hardest part! Back to cyber
cafes! and flight back to Kathmandu in 2
days...
Now designing modern toilet and shower..
state of the art in that area... and
decided to stone lay and then cement the
floors from earth floor... though $50
per bag.. as donkeys carry it for 5 days
to get there..one donkey carries half a
bag on each side... .
Photos
in Gallery.
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8 June
- On 5th June DAD Kashmir organised another free Medical/Dental Camp at Mujipather in
Distr. Budgam. A quite good number of patients attended the camp and they were assessed,
treated and medicine was distributed
accordingly.. There was a rush of KIDS having oral problems
and they were counselled to maintain oral hygiene and toothpastes were distributed among them...
MORE .... and .... Photos
in Gallery.
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28 May
- Today Hope Centre had its application to
ABILIS in Finland approved today for
10,000 Euros so we will start next month to assess 40 disabled youth to start training in some new
skills with loan support to start their businesses.
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27 May
- Nepali volunteers Graham and Jenny Wigley
have sponsored Ganga Ghimire, she is the girl who was cataract blind almost from age
1 and at age 13 both eyes had Hollows intra ocular lens inserted.
Last year the Treasurer Brian and Judith and MEND each paid a third of her costs.
Rob visited Dab Bahadur's school yesterday and took a few photos of Ganga..
looking happy.. and slowly moving up classes.. as you can see she is still in the smallest classes.. New
photos of Ganga in Gallery.
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25 May
- The Charlie Runners, Charlie and
Wendy, Julie and Marcus, Anna, Katie and
Jennie, the UK supporters, raised £600
on Sunday 22 May for the Hope Centre in
Nepal . Charlie organised a run 2 years
ago which helped raise 33% of the
building cost of Hope Centre! The run
was in the Curry Mallet 10km loop, in
Somerset, near Taunton. Julie came all
the way from Petersborough for the run, its about a
6hr drive away.
Photos in Gallery.
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23 May
- Ganga is just fitting a young girl
with a hearing aid, she had not heard
much in last 5 years after some
infection in the ear, so she is happy.
Rob has been making these standing
frames which hold up kids who otherwise
flop over, this boy is getting stronger
every day, he calls Rob "father:"!
Photos in Gallery.
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21 May
- A very exciting camp was held at
Resunga Hospital yesterday and 75
disabled persons of Gulmi received free
quality limbs, wheelchairs and
artificial arms, thanks to the great
teamwork of NdF and Handicap
Internatonial and support from LIons
Club. About 25 patients are under ALTSO funding.
Many came as far away as Chitwan,
Santipur and another group from Dhurkot
came to be measured for aids that will
made and sent in the next few months.
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16 May -
Fitting hearing aids at Hope Centre Nepal. Checking for infection or wax build-up which will need treatment first. Testing hearing levels with a screening audiometer to make an audiogram. Fitting a donated behind-the-ear hearing aid or in-the-ear hearing aid.
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15 May
- An assessment camp was held in Dhorkot
village about 20km from Hope Centre in
Nepal. Access was by Jeep. Rob and Ganga
were assisted by Chief District Officer,
and two doctors. Ganga and Rob saw a
whole range of disabilities. Ganga had
to walk down a steep hill to get there
in hot sun.. and testing a girls' ears
who just suddenly lost her hearing 2
years ago.. but we think can get much
back with a hearing aid we will fit
soon..
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14 May
- We have added a new page,
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a patient,
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10 May
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Two new videos uploaded of
a boy in India
BEFORE and
AFTER he received a prosthesis. With
help from ALTSO the WALK Foundation in
Andhra Pradesh India is getting kids
walking with low-cost, locally-made
prostheses.
This boy will now have better mobility
to be able to face what life's
challenges will also throw at him!
Please see the Support 2 WALK website. |
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6 May - Jim,
the webmaster has been talking to Rob
via Skype at the Hope Disabilty Centre in
Nepal where he is working at the moment,
Rob was joined on Skype by Teke Bohara, the
14 year old who had surgery on both
feet and his sister Radhika who speaks a
little English. Rob will take some
photos around the Hope Centre to give us
a better impression of what life is in
the area. Click on image to enlarge.
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5 May - India by Handtrike - Shasa
Bolton here. So I have come to learn
that there is a need for mobility
devices for the disabled in the poorer
areas of India. Due to birth defects,
accidents or disease, a person may spend
their life crawling in the dust of a
rural village unable to travel far from
home. A simple low cost tricycle can
improve their mobility and future,
allowing them to travel to school or
work within the village. Check
out his Blog |
4 May - UPDATE - Bite
the Bullet - Buy a BULLET ! MEND, with the help of
KRUSHNA SEVA
SAMITHI, is importing 2 classic
Royal Enfield motorbikes from India to
sell in New Zealand. Any profit will be
used to help disabled in India.
ADM7380 is 1979 Model, and ADG7140 is
1985 Model. The Motorbikes have been refurbished and
serviced and ready to be exported to NZ. Photographs of two
refurbished bikes
are shown from different angles. If
you are interested in purchasing one of
these motorbikes, or interested in one
particular model, please contact mend@xtra.co.nz
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May - Rob met this man
(click on image to enlarge) at the Hope Centre yesterday
and he has very good function with this
operation, its called the The Krukenberg procedure also known as the Krukenberg operation,
a surgical technique that converts a forearm stump into a pincer.
It was first described in 1917 by the German army surgeon Hermann Krukenberg
The procedure involves separating the ulna and radius for below-elbow amputations, and in cases of congenital absence of the hand, to provide a pincerlike grasp that is motored by the pronator teres muscle. The prerequisites for the operation are a stump over 10 cm long from the tip of the olecranon, no elbow contracture, and good psychological preparation and acceptance.....
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28 April
- Teke is a great kid (he says
he is now 14) and has no parents.. he
was staying with his grandparents in a
village. He now stays at the Hope Centre
and he is having to wash his own clothes
and dishes to help us .. and soon how to
cook.. as Nepali males don't cook much.
His second
day now at a new school .. and they even
have a school bus to collect him and
others from Hope Centre. He stays at
Hope and is being sponsored by an
Auckland teacher Sam Buckley. Before and After operation photos of
Teke Bohara's disability
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24 April
- Aaron Fotheringham was born
in 1991 with a Spina Bifida a birth
defect of the spinal cord.
Watch this amazing, inspirational video
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21 April
- MEND has received a formal
proposal for help from DEF to set up a
limb centre in Nigeria. However we need
help from other organizations because of
the high cost involved. Deformity
Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is a non
governmental organization based in
Maiduguri, North eastern Nigeria. The
organization is involved in assisting
under privileged children that have
deformities or disabilities with the aim
empowering them through appropriate
surgical correction or rehabilitation
for those with disability...
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14 April
- Mend director Rob Buchanan
will arrive in Kathmandu on Sunday,
fully packed up with 50 kgs of
supplies...with hearing aids and 30
limbs... he
will visit the centres in Nepal and
Kashmir to help the volunteers and staff
and also be present at the opening the
new
Ideal Health Centre in Nepal. He
will also meet with officials,
volunteers, doctors and government
representatives to ensure smooth running
of the centres. He will meet patients
and their families and help with fitting
of limbs, etc. He will be a busy man
during his 5 months stay. Rob will
report back on this site regularly, so
please check this page .... |
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10 April - On 7th April (World Health
Day) DAD team organised a camp in
collaboration with a prestigious society
of the valley namely Voluntary Medicare
Society headed by a renowned ENT
specialist Dr Mohammad Maqbool, aimed to
work for the disabled and mentally
challenged children. ..... MORE
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8 April
- Nepal Orthotics
and Prosthetics Centre - Photos of kids
and others that have fitted using the
limb parts donated from NZ and Australia
by APC and ALC.
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31 March
- Kashmir -
Along the tree-lined road that passes
through here, it is impossible to miss
the factories that earn this town its
keep. Building after building is buzzing
with the sound of machines and clouded
by plumes of sawdust. The cricket bat
industry of Awantipora is a major source
of equipment for India's voracious
sporting goods market and an important
source of income for for the economy of
the troubled state of Kashmir......
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29 March -
Photos of Bishnu Shrestha, the first
person to have the hands fitted supplied
by ALTSO -
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27 March
- Pauline and Mark travelled to Nepal
and India in 2010 and worked at the Hope
Centre at Tamghas, Gulmi, Nepal. They
made a great Blog of their experiences,
well worth to read and check the photos.
It starts when they arrive in Nepal with
a Culture Shock |
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25 March - DaD
Team visited the Leprosy
Colony in Bahrar area of
Srinagar, Kashmir. Bahrar is after the
name of a sufi mystic poet Aziz Bahrare.
This colony was founded in 1892 by a
British lady Miss Mary. The colony has
population of 250 persons including
children. Out of 250 almost 90-100 are suffering from leprosy and rest are recovered from the disease.
The colony has population of 250 persons including
children. Out of 250 almost .........
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23 March 2011 - The
Ideal Health Centre
is being built, with the help from
the local Youth Club, 50 km from Mt Everest ...as the crow flies!
It is a
very remote area of Solukumbu with no
electricity or phone and everything must
be carried by porters, no roads. Its first mission is to promote maternity care in that mountainous region where it is a 12 hour
walk to the nearest hospital and airport. So many women have died in childbirth.
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18 Mar - Bite
the Bullet - Buy a BULLET ! MEND, with the help of
KRUSHNA SEVA
SAMITHI, is importing 2
classic Royal Enfield motorbikes
from India to sell in New Zealand. Any
profit will be used to help disabled in
India. ADM7380 is 1979 Model, and ADG7140 is 1985 Model.
The Motorbikes will be refurbished and
serviced before they are exported. Photographs of two Models
are shown from different angles. If
you are interested in purchasing one of
these motorbikes, or interested in one
particular model, please contact mend@xtra.co.nz |
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17 Mar - I am Ganga from Hope Disability
Centre, Nepal. Today we had a big event, all local media and Nepal Television people came to film and inspect our Hope Disability Centre.
Also today the Gulmi Jilla Samaj
UK, a charitable association of Gulmi people in the UK,
visited from U.K. and they handed over a donation to Hope Disability Centre of Rs250,000 (US$3500) They are very nice people and we gave them respected Nepali Sal Award.
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15 Mar - A Leg To Stand On
("ALTSO") has supplied 20 artificial hands to Hope Centre in Nepal donated by
Americares.
Click for Hand Evaluation Video
Click
for Hand Training Video
Click
for Hand Fitting Video
Click
for Hand Grips and Use Video
Click
for Hand Photo Gallery
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for Hand in Action Video |
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11 Mar - About 300 patients including children visited the camp which
was organised at Mujpather Budgam primary school.
We were 5 team members who went for the camp.
Medicines were distributed among the patients.
Those who were disabled were assisted and were advised for
physiotherapy ........ More
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4 Mar - These were some of the 100 patients
at the medical camp on February 14, 2011 at Resunga Hospital in Tamghas Gulmi, ( partly-owned and managed by the Hope Centre Treasurer) who had surgery by the Model Hospital plastic surgery team,
surgery and travel costs were covered by
ALTSO
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3 Mar - Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK, a small charitable association of Gulmi people in the UK.
They are active in Gulmi since its establishment on 7 August, 2007.
During
their visit 18-21 March they will hand over a
donation to Hope Disability Centre,
Gulmi, Please read their donation offer
by email HERE. (Word format)
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28 Feb - Rob Buchanan has been doing this sort of thing for over 20 years in various parts of the world.
Nina Wells volunteered at this centre in
Nepal and also shot an update story for BBC World Challenge on behalf of One Planet Pictures.
This short video is an insight into one of his projects in the foothills of the Himalayas.
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25 Feb - Images
by Nina Wells of Hope Disability
Centre Doco Project, Nepal. 2010
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24 Feb - Partner Krushna
Seva Samithi have distributed four
Wooden Shops to disabled. For a long
time they have been running small
businesses on the footpath and were facing
difficulties in summer and the rainy
seasons, with the help of a local ngo,
they have arranged the wooden shops freely
to the disabled. More photos HERE
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23 Feb
Visit
by ABILIS team to Kashmir and meeting
with DaD team.
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22
Feb
DaD
Kashmir (Disabled & Disadvantaged)
photo story from their first camp 2 Dec
2010 (pdf 1.8MB)
or View
photos only in Photo Gallery
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19
Feb - With every pair of shoes
you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of
new shoes to a child in need. One for
One. www.TOMS.com. |
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18 Feb
Patient file before and after photos |
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17 Feb
February
MEND Newsletter (Word) |
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16 Feb
Photo from
a recent camp held with Krushna
Seva Samithi in Andra Pradesh.
MEND
sponsored these 12 wheelchairs..
The patients all need
assessment and follow up. |
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12 Feb 2011
ALTSO
are going to ship a box of (20) transradial prostheses to
Hope Disability Centre in Nepal this coming Monday.
Rotary will take care of Customs clearance for
the shipment and Rob will be in Nepal mid April and will also help get those 20 hands fitted
.. and report back to ALTSO.. ... Click
for Hand details (pdf) |
