General Donation
The world keeps turning
Twenty two years ago to the day, in a remote Nepali village reachable only by 4 days on foot, the first of its kind – a small pre-school and nursing post opened to the sound of gongs, pipes and dancing.
After this ceremony and hidden up to then, emerged from a pile of rags, a young mother holding a 10-day old baby all skin and bone and clearly never been fed since birth. What to do? It turns out she had reticulitis and couldn’t digest or even swallow her mother’s milk. She was literally starving to death in her mother’s arms. The mother had walked 3 days to reach the post.
Another 4 days later of walking with mother and child to Pokhara and a subsequent flight to Kathmandu. A $200 surgical procedure and she began to blossom.
Ariel(Not her real name) is now a 22-year-old healthy, vivacious, confident young woman who knows little of how close she came to dying in some remote village in Nepal.
It was being part of that effort, that showed me just how much can be achieved with so little effort and how lives can be saved and changed.
Child Welfare Scheme, a Hong Kong charity of which I am proud to have been a member since its inception has over the past 23 years been transforming the lives of children and their mothers through education and healthcare.
CWS has over its life created over 14 daycare centres, a clinic, child-friendly school programmes, a vocational centre etc. and 5 schools were rebuilt in the aftermath of the Nepal 2015 earthquake.
At this time the world is concerned about its health, earning a living and is uncertain about the future. It’s time that those who can take to doing rather than talking, thus the reason for this letter to you.
At this time the world is concerned about its health, earning a living and is uncertain about the future. It’s time that those who can take to doing rather than talking, thus the reason for this letter to you.
Since its creation, I have had the honour to raise funds for CWS by running in hot dry places.
In August, I am dusting off my running shoes, slipping once again into latex and taking on a 240km run in Georgia to raise funds for CWS to support the programmes that to this day we continue to run.
