Healthcare workers visiting mountain village

The little lady on the right in the lower photo is Pinkey Malla, our staff person in Nepal and one of our many visiting home health care nurses. Pinkey is a delightful little lady, full of love and laughter. The photo above shows three of our workers entering a typical mountain home perched on the edge of a precarious path. These are ladies that we trained as visiting nurses two years ago who live in Kathmandu, but make the trek to the villages to care for the families who have no access to health care.  Pinky brought candies for the children, who heard that she was coming and skipped school in order to play with her for the day!   In order to get to these mountain villages, the healthcare workers take a motorcycle or bus many hours to the "end of the road", where they walk across a VERY long suspension bridge that swings in the wind over plots of potato and rice fields, climb a perilously thin path up the mountain to the homes, where they stay overnight with the family.  They bring with them minor medicines, a lot of practical advice, and a huge heart for caring for the village people. I should add that Pinkey is an exceptional chungi player (the Nepali version of hackeysack), in spite of the fact that the "hackeysack" was made from a little bit of twisted wire.