the main Kathmandu Seven Women centre serves as a safe refuge for women who have been victims of domestic violence, or those needing medical attention. Here, the women are taught education and vocational skills, thus breaking the cycle of poverty and despair.
Fundraising for causes such as polio eradication, brain cancer and human trafficking takes many traditional forms. Testing human endurance in extreme physical and mental challenges was a non-traditional method taken on by one exceptional Rotarian on multiple occasions.
Homelessness – its something that happens to others, to people we don’t know, to people who aren’t like us. We wrap ourselves tight in the cosy comfortable blanket of denial and privilege.
We don’t get to choose how we start our life, or who we start it with. Some kids are doing it really tough; neglected and hurt by those closest, they face an uncertain future.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day serves to promote greater awareness and support for the estimated 1 in 4 individuals and families whose lives are irrevocably altered by the death of their children during pregnancy, at birth, and in infancy.
It’s stealthy, silent and cruel, and still out there – even today Polio can paralyse and take the lives of children.
