Update project by Resie Moonen

Dear friends of homeopathy in Nepal,
First of all I want to wish all of you an inspiring, colourful and healthy 2011.
Last year there have been so many people helping us with the project in Bhaktapur-Nepal.
A lot of people sponsored the students and the facilities in the Clinic and in the College, and European doctors went again to work as a volunteer in the project.
Also organisations and individual persons gave us a special gift after the death of our beloved president of the project, Tinus Smits, who gave so much of his energy to this project for many years. In the short videofilms on the weblog, you can see his dedicated contribution.
The gifts show the appreciation for his work, and for this project, and we all hope we can continue to work on his dream to make homeopathy available for all people in this beautiful country, and to bring better medical care in the remote areas.
Dr. Ortrud Lindemann, one of the founders of the project, just returned from Bhaktapur. She had a very intense stay: a lot of things had to be organised. The Homeopathic Health Assistant (HHA) College has now started its third year.
That means that we have students in all three levels of the HHA training, most of them being highly motivated to become good homeopathic health assistants. For most of the students this is the only chance for them to study, with the help of the European sponsors. They are willing to bring all their knowledge to the area, where they come from; remote areas with a severe lack of medical care. In some areas of Nepal, there is only one doctor for 200.000 people. Can you imagine: in Europe we have 3.3 doctors for 1000 people!
The clinic, the college, the administration, the labs and the sleeping room for the European doctor are all in one building, the white building on the video, and as you can believe, this building is getting too small for all these functions. Happily there is ground to build a new building in Bhaktapur area.
In 2011 we want to realise the first floor of this building, where both clinic and college will have room, with library, labs and all the facilities needed for the College, recognised by the Government. There are some strict rules about location and equipment of the teaching institute and for the official recognition in the future we have to fulfil them.
This year will be an important year for the project. Now Xavier, a doctor from Spain, is working in Bhaktapur and in April/May I myself will go again. We all hope we can continue our work with your help.
Thanks to all of you helping the students and the people in Nepal, and we hope we can count on your help again this year!
Namaste,
Dr. Resie Moonen