So many people sharing the joy…
Whitsunday Shire Council LIBRARY: Cannonvale
Redundant kid’s books find a new home at the PA Nepal kid’s home. The blue bookcase at the back houses most of their existing books.These kids are rescued from prisons where they lived with their mothers. Clothed, schooled and fed, now well read!
Whitsunday Lions Club
Indira, the founder of PA Nepal gives lew a receipt for moneys donated for kids food and school books. Many of the kids education is sponsored by members of NAFA (Nepal Australia Friendship Association). There is always a new, bewildered face, each time I go, but safe now and enveloped in loving kindness.
Shechen Monastery Hospital Clinic
Sarita and Keshab, our sponsored full time staff in Nepal (they work at NAHOH – Nepal Association for the Hard of Hearing ) now conduct a clinic here every Monday. Pictured, they train on new equipment (USB Oscilla 300B audiometer, yes that’s it in the headset! (includes Bone conduction and masking). It, and a USB Hi Pro for programming the digital hearing aids is powered by lightweight solid state hard drive lap, A battery colour printer saves the manual audiogram report process. Thanks Doug at GN Resound for putting it all together at a price “most kind”. He, like Keshab, is such a good boy.
Teku Slum – Kathmandu
As part of our arrangement with Shechen Clinic, we run a camp in the surrounding slums once a month. Anyone requiring further treatment or referral is then sent to NAHOH’s clinic in Kirtipur, where medical follow up is completed, hearing aids fitted or inclusion in free surgery camps is organised.
Teku Slum Hearing Camp exposed:
Sarita Logs the clients in, and completes personal details on their primary ear care record. The clients keep their own medical records.
And then they wait under a tree.
From tree to a queue, which spills into the primary ear care room. Personal space, let alone privacy is not much valued, curiosity and the willingness to help each other rules!
Remember that good boy Keshab? Here he is doing that which he does so well. Ears are checked and cleaned, or drops given for a future syringing. 
Infected ears will be cleaned and drugs prescribed. Keshab will asses whether they have a hearing loss with a tuning fork, placed out from the ear, on the bone behind the ear and then on the forehead. Sensorineural, conductive right or left losses are highlighted.
Either Keshab will test them with the diagnostic audiometer at the end of the day, or if lew or Sue or a “Trained volunteer” is with them, then they will do it. If a hearing aid is prescribed, a mould impression is taken, and the clients will have to go to Kirtipur for the fitting. There is no charge for the aid, but they must still make an effort to be fitted, to place value on the aid.
And the “precious” are given “Mini” alternate listening devices, thanks to Andrew and family at Word of Mouth, in Melbourne.
