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Outreach Updates with Dr. Wells

 

 

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Welcome back!  And much gratitude again for all those who donated shoes to Somaly Mam... we collected over $100,000!

A few years back I visited Nepal to do work with women and children in shelters.  While there, I visited Dr. Sarita Shreshtha, an OB/GYN who has a holistic village clinic called Devi Ma, right near the epicenter of the recent earthquake.  She is partly funded by a humanitarian organization in the states called The Growing Edge. 

 

Here is a letter from the Growing Edge organizer Savita.

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Dear Friends of Sarita Shrestha, MD Ayurveda
  
On behalf of Dr. Shrestha, I want to first thank everyone for the immense love and support expressed for her personally, and for her family, beloved ancient city and country, as the Nepalese population now faces the deep and painful challenges in their recovery from such a devastating earthquake. 
  
Sarita's heart is full of both grief for the loss and suffering taking place, and gratitude for the support being expressed. A week prior to her arrival at MMC last Wednesday (2 days before the quake), she was in rural villages giving health care to 300 villagers a day, in the very area at the epicenter of the 7.8 quake. You cannot imagine how this feels for her to know these villages have been completely destroyed. Her biggest clinic in the ancient city of Bhaktapur is miraculously still standing. We do not know yet about her village clinic in Sipadole.
  
We are calling upon your support to help her people in this time of severe need. She has generously served the Ayurvedic community and hundreds, if not thousands, of clients in the US and in California especially, for the past 15 years - with clinical expertise, deep compassion, commitment and humility. 
  
The Growing Edge is a 501(C)3 California non-profit corporation I founded in 1993. We have been supporting Dr. Shrestha's work since 2000.  One hundred percent of the funds we raise each year during her programs in the US go directly to The Devi Ma Kunja, her NGO in Nepal.  These funds have been supporting her clinics in Kathmandu and Bhaktapur, the development of a small rural out- patient hospital in Sipadole, and regular "health camps" in rural villages. 

 
Dr. Sarita will be returning to Kathmandu this coming Wed...the earliest we could get a flight. 
In addition, we are currently cancelling all the programs in the US that she was scheduled to offer... which means she is losing her primary support for the year's expenses in her clinics!
  
AND NOW THE NEED IS SO MUCH GREATER!!
  
If you are able, please be generous .  The Growing Edge is raising funds to help her directly support those in need - specifically with medicines, food and temporary shelters. It is raining. Swine flu and cholera are already breaking out.

 
All donations are fully tax deductible and 100% will be directly passed on to the Devi Ma Kunja and go directly to the people.. 
Dr. Shrestha will personally and directly oversee all monies we raise and will determine how best it can be utilized, based on how things actually are on the ground and in the villages.

 

DONATE :)  Thank you! 

 

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