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Terry's Travel Log (Blog) lll - Rural Nepal

Greetings from a cold and damp traveler in Nepal

I made it through the first night and day. The night ... my friends are taking good care of me. The bought me a big warm comforter type bed cover that is at least queen size. There is no heat in the homes here. The floor in the home I am staying in is either granite or ceramic and not very sock feet friendly. Everyone takes their shoes off at the door here.

Once I jumped under my cover last night, I gradually got warmer. I was a little cool when I awoke at about 5:15 AM when the power went off and my CPAP breathing device quit working. When I got up and felt the real cold, I fell in love with my pink bed spread. They will have to pry it from my cold clenched hands when I leave.

The day was spent meeting with our PArtner SAP Nepal and Faruq Faisel, a long time friend and associate who is now acting in an advisory capacity for World Accord in some of our programs (especially in Asia.)

Faruq was born in Bagladesh. After graduating from University in journalism, he went abroad and eventually wound up in Canada. About 10 years back he went to work in Ottawa for South Asia Partnership (SAP). SAP is a consortium of development agencies like World Accord who work together and share resources and what we have learned with each other.

SAP Nepal is a counterpart agency in Nepal that World Accord still has a partnership and funding relationship with. SAP Nepal spent the day outlining their program, their various funding partners including World Accord. This agency has done good work for many years among the poor people here. Nepal is one of the poorest nations in South Asia.

In 1992, a new Director of SAP Nepal launched it into a new and creative direction. I liked it then and attended the inaugural meeting in Nepal. The program has contued to evolve and World Accord has been a funding partner, moral supporter and cheering squad ever since. The stage is set. SAP Nepal and World Accord can now begin to plan some new, creative and unproven strategies to help the poor and help relieve the tensions around the ongoing civil war and armed conflict.

Stay tuned for more news from the forefront of Peace in Nepal.

posted by World Accord Staff @ 11:04 AM