We reported how tragically Apshara's mother died when she was only ten days old. She lived in a remote village area of Nepal,and was looked after by her grandmother who was desperately poor. She sold everything to buy milk formula to feed the baby, this quickly ran out and without milk Apshara would not have survived. The Nestling Trust continues to support the welbeing of this child and is delighted to see that Apashara is now a beautiful healthy baby girl.
This grandmother's love for her baby grandaughter Apshara (meaning Angel), shines through the grief of losing her daughter so tragically when Apshara was only ten days old. She is now a healthy baby thanks to her grandmother's devoted care and support from The Nestling Trust.
The family live in a remote village area of Nepal in a marginalised community. They had sold everything to buy milk formula to feed the baby after her mother died - this quickly ran out and the baby would not have survived. The Nestling Trust continues to supply milk formula. We are delighted that already a 4-day update training course for Female Community Healthcare Volunteers has taken place at the Baiteshwor Health and Birthing Centre, which was funded by the Nestling Trust together with the Government of Nepal and inaugurated in May '23.
The FCHVs’ main role is to promote safe motherhood, child health, family planning, and other community-based health education. Their work is vital in the rural, mountainous areas of Nepal where medical facilities are so sparse. A valuable part of their work is to facilitate mothers’ group meetings, where women from local villages gather and discuss health issues. Well done to all those involved in arranging this training and to all those who worked so hard to pass the module. The Nestling Trust continues to fundraise to establish this desperately needed facility to help save the lives of mothers and their babies. Health and Birthing Centre - work on a retention wall for emergency vehicle access continues.This is Nepal in the remote mountainous areas, and this, with lack of mechanisation, is the effort and determination of local village builders. The Baiteshwor Health and Birthing Centre is complete but work still continues to make a retention wall in the mountainside for emergency vehicle access. The Nestling Trust has huge respect for those undertaking this work and for what has already been achieved through sheer hard work and the resilience of the Nepalese people.
We share this, along with our grateful thanks, with all those who have donated, and those who are continuing to donate towards the establishment of the Health and Birthing Centre. Baiteshwor is an area where 12,000 people live without such facilities. The BigGive '22 - starts in one week! Midday 29th Nov. '22 until Midday 6th Dec. '22. Donations made to The Nestling Trust (TNT) during this week will be doubled. TNT's Baiteshwor Health and Birthing Centre Centre Project has been chosen to receive match funding! To Donate click the link: https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a056900002NDpOpAAL Manju's legacy - The Baiteshwor Health and Birthing Centre21 year old Manju died from haemorrhage while she made the long journey across mountain tracks to the closest hospital. Health Services in rural Nepal are constrained by harsh terrain, inadequate roads, lack of transport, and natural disasters including flooding and landslides, only 61.8% of households have access to medical care within 30mins and of those 89.9% are in towns and cities.
12,000 people live in the remote mountainous area of Baiteshwor that currently has no birthing facilities. The Nestling Trust in collaboration with the local government is funding a Health and Birthing Centre. Due to be completed in March '23 funds are needed to create an emergency vehicle access area, staffing and provision of an outreach programme for Health Education. Congratulations to Ms Devi Chaulagain who has just completed and passed Midwifery Training exams at Parapakar Maternity and Women's Hospital in Kathmandu. Devi is a nurse at Marbu Health Clinic in Dolakha. This is a great achievement, the skills she has learnt will be invaluable - well done!
The plan is for Devi to transfer to the new Health and Birthing Centre when it is finally complete. To everyone who has so generously donated to help build the Health and Birthing Centre in Baiteshwor Nepal - see the progress, and thank you!
The walls and roof are built. When complete 12,000 people will have for the first time access to medical and birthing facilities near where they live. Without your help, this would not have been possible. Thank you all so much. This happy little boy is Krishna, now 9 years old, celebrating Tihar Festival with his friends at SERC School, Nepal. Six years ago he was unable to speak, stand or move his arms or hands. Rescued by the Nestling Trust (TNT) two weeks before the Nepal earthquake, he has been cared for at SERC School for children with special needs, receiving daily physiotherapy and speech therapy. He now can run, play and communicate in simple sentences and is independent in all activities of daily living.
TNT wishes to thank all physios and staff for their care, skills, and compassion. We also thank all those who have donated to the Nestling Trust making it possible for us to support Krishna When hope was fading and fear rising, nurses have been able to continue providing medical care to families living in the remote village areas of Dolakha, Nepal.
Since the start of the pandemic, thanks to the generosity of our supporters, TNT has provided support and essential medical equipment, including oxygen and PPE, as well as soap and handwashing supplies to the 5 Health Clinics it established together with Sitara and HDS - Nepal, in Bhirkot, Lapilang, Marbu, Chilankha and Melung. Each clinic in partnership with the Ministry of Health serves approximately 6000 people. Nurses have continued with their routine work - wound care, antenatal and postnatal care, child immunisation and acute and chronic illness management etc. while working tirelessly to help prevent the spread of the Coronavirus as well as caring for those affected. TNT pays tribute to the dedication and efforts of these nurses who with liitle concern for their own safetey, have put the needs of others first. It has been fantastic to receive the news that each Health Post is now providing Coronavirus vaccine to the villagers in their areas. As we hear of this vital work being undertaken TNT is deeply grateful to all who have supported our Health Initiative projects over the past 7 years, without your help none of this would have been possible - thank you. The Nestling Trust is unable to arrange our usual social fundraising events due to the Coronovirus restrictions. So we have been busy producing a lovely calendar for 2021 - it depicts typical Nepali scenes as well as a few showcasing our work. The calendars - for which we are asking donations (minimum £10), are available from: Market Lavington Post Office Devizes Books, Devizes Alternatively please contact Sue Hamblin 07973414601 We would be most grateful if you could support this fundraising idea, the calendars would make great Christmas gifts! Finally after weeks trying to locate essential medical items such as masks, gloves, aprons and thermal gun thermometers etc Sitara, our partner NGO organised delivery to four of our five Health Posts today with a further delivery planned on Thursday to Lapilang Health Post and the District Health Office medical staff.
In these exceptional times with the Covid-19 virus spreading so rapidly around the world, it is hard to find such equipment, even in developed countries, so we can understand the difficulties Sitara has faced in gathering these items and also for arranging the transportation despite the 'lockdown' in Nepal. In particular finding infrared thermal gun thermometers, vital in trying to identifying those likely to be suffering from the virus has proved to be almost impossible with stocks in the country having been bought up by a syndicate for sale on the black market. Police arrested the perpetrators and confiscated the thermometers. After days of contacting different suppliers and hours of negotiations Sitara has finally secured ten.The Nestling Trust thanks SItara most sincerely for their commitment and determination. Thank you also to our loyal supporters - without you this would not be possible. The Nestling Trust through SITARA, our partner NGO, has contributed to life saving surgery for Ram Thapi, a 15 year old boy from Dolakha, whose brother tragically died a year ago. Ram has been in hospital for 8 months. He requires a bone marrow transplant and undergoes surgery today. We hope and pray that all goes well for Ram, and wish him a speedy recovery.
Site of the Health and Birthing Centre at Preeti!
A huge thank you to everyone who donated to the Nestling Trust Preeti project, through the BigGive Matchfunding Christmas Challenge. We are delighted to say that through your generosity work can begin in January 2020 to build and establish a Health and Birthing Centre at Preeti, a remote area in Nepal where currently 30,000 people have no medical facility. Imagine having to trek for miles across difficult mountainous terrain to find the nearest health post, sometimes arriving too late to help very sick patients. We are enormously grateful for everyone's support, which has come from as far away as NZ, USA and Canada as well as many places in the UK and of course from our local supporters in Wiltshire. Thank you for all your loyal support, for believing in us and encouraging us in our work in Nepal. It is through you that we are able to make changes to improve the health and the lives of the most needy, disadvantaged and marginalised people - thank you. Sue. The Nestling Trust is delighted to say that today - the first day of the BigGive campaign, £1,230 has been donated to help us build a Health and Birthing Centre in Preeti, where currently 30,000 people have no medical facility. A huge thank you to those who have donated. That figure will be doubled through the BigGive.
The campaign runs until midday on the 10th December '19 - please continue to donate our target figure is £20,000. TOMORROW is the Big Day! A Window of Opportunity! Donations to the Nestling Trust for Health and Birthing Centre at Preeti will be doubled through the BigGive from midday Tuesday 3/12/19 until midday 10/12/19. With your help the Nestling Trust can help provide medical care in an area where 30,000 people currently do not have any medical facility or Health Education. www.nestlingtrust.co.uk See what donations to the Nestling Trust achieved last year through the BigGive - 5000 people now have access to medical care locally in Melung, Nepal! ONE WEEK AND COUNTING! - This year's BigGive begins on 3rd December at midday 'til 10th December '19 midday. Please help us fund a Health and Birthing Centre, this time for Preeti, a remote area in the Ramechap region of Nepal, currently without medical facilities. For more information check out the website www.nestlingtrust.co.uk Mike and Barry TNT directors, visit Nepal for the first time and meet up with Sue, Bijen and Subash for a meeting in Kathmandu, to discuss the itinerary for the next two weeks. On the agenda will be the 'Completion Ceremony' of the Children's Home at Sarangkot, and visiting the four Health Clinics in the Dolakha region. 2 Years Ago Today a devastating earthquake hit Nepal. TNT have funded the building of 3 Clinics In Dolakha a badly affected area - they are now complete. TNT has continued to support Marbu clinic which had also been destroyed, the nurse has been working within a corrugated iron shed. However, this is now being rebuilt by the District Health Office and is almost complete. Equipment is now desperately needed - so much was lost, crushed under the rubble. TNT wish to provide each clinic with necessary basic equipment and the following list includes items still to be purchased. If anyone wishes to help us we would be most grateful. To contribute either click on the My Donate page or Tel. 07747062757 thank you. Rate Per Unit Total Amount Rs.British pounds
AUTOCLAVE £68.21 FRIDGE £151.16 PRIVACY screen CURTAIN £34.80 EXAMINATION BED £104.65 STRETCHER £17.05 STRETCHER £89.14 STOOL TO CLIMB UP ON TO EXAMINATION BED £18.21 TABLES £36 CHAIRS 6pcs - £36 CUPBOARD FOR STORING MEDICATIONS DRESSING £158.90 EMERGENCY MEDICINE TROLLEY (CRASH CARD TROLLEY) £310.00 B.P MONITOR £14.72 STHETHSCOPE £6.97 OPTHALMOSCOPE £124.03 SUCTION UNIT £96.80 NEBULIZER UNIT £27.13 DRIP STAND £18.21 KIDNEY BOWL 29p x 4 = £2.90 SPECULUM S,M,L £10.46 each ARTERY FORCEP £3.01 PLAIN FORCEP 0.93p each x 10 = £9.30 SCISSORS £1.43 TORCH £3.75 FIRST AID BAG TO TAKE TO PATIENTS HOMES WHEN EMERGENCY with items £25 PLASTIC BOWLS x 4 £10.46 PLASTIC BUCKETS x 4 £7.36 MOP & BUCKET FOR FLOOR CLEANING £7.36 Walking, and with real hope for the future ..........
After 3 months in hospital undergoing corrective foot surgery to enable her to walk, Shrijana is today returning to her village where she will be under the care of local health post staff until she returns to hospital in 6weeks time for follow up treatment. Our grateful thanks go to Dr Govinda KC, staff at Kathmandu Teaching Hospital, Shrijana's cousin who has provided personal care, Himshikhara, our our partner NGO through whom TNT is able to work and Bijendra Aryal, TNT director, who for the past 3 months has supported Shrijana in the absence of her family, giving his valuable time to ensure that prescribed medications and nutritious food has been available. Unlike the UK NHS, in Nepal hospitals rely upon family members to provide this. Shrijana is now able to look forward to a life free from disability and pain - thank you to everyone involved, especially our loyal supporters who have made this possible. Two clinics almost complete! The Nestling Trust working with the District Health Office in Cherikot and SITARA Nepal, are helping to bring healthcare into the remote villages of Lapilang, Chilankha and Bhirkot. Villagers are constructing the clinics themselves with materials and support provided by the Nestling Trust. Lapilang ClinicSITARA Nepal funded by the Nestling Trust, are supporting villagers in the construction of a health clinic in their remote village of Chilankha, high in the mountains near the Tibetan border. Work is well underway.
Many remote villages no longer have access to running water due to water levels having dropped following last years earthquake.
During a visit to the remote areas of the Dolakha region of Nepal, Subash and Sue from the Nestling Trust UK, and SITARA Nepal, found that Marbu in Namdu, Khartal in Chilinkha, Leptung in Lapilan and Bhirkot in Daduwa were all without running water. Villagers had no option but to carry heavy vital water supplies daily, from other new sources. across the rugged mountainsides. The Nestling Trust is supporting SITARA in the building of new health posts in each of these villages - TNT has now undertaken to fund the piping, taps etc. necessary to provide each village with running water. The manpower is being provided by the villagers themselves. Following permission from the Ministry of Health, agreement documents are signed between NGO SITARA and the Nestling Trust UK - construction work for three simple health shelters can now begin in the remote villages of Bhirkot, Chilankha and Lapilan.
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