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Our Problem
Children
(January 2007) |
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Without
our help, some of our children would have had to die. Tsering was suffering
from Tuberculosis in an advanced stage. In the hill resort that belongs to my
friend, Shyam, he received an eight months' therapy. Now Tsering has
recovered, his face is no more pale, and he smiles. In Phugmoche, he teaches
his mother tongue, the Sherpa language. It was comparatively easy to help his
friend, Ngawang Tharchin, who now studies in an Indian Buddhist institute.
His heart trouble could be cured. Soman's
life was saved by a 'last minute' operation. He was only twelve years old
when we discovered that a middle ear infection had inflamed his scull bone.
The inflammation was just about to affect his brain. Today he is a happy boy
in his teens. As soon as he notices the European woman climb up the steep
rock to Phugmoche, he runs into his room, and greets me with a scarf of honour.
Recently
we were able to have Pasang operated so that his leg did not have to be
amputated. Two years before, while playing, he fell against a rock. For a
long time he had haematomas, and he suffered from pains in his thigh. As he
never complained, nobody was worried – until an infection of his bone was
diagnosed which without our help would have turned Pasang into a cripple for
all his life. Just now
Cheji's eight months' Tuberculosis therapy is coming to an end. Children
often bring diseases from their homes on returning to school after the school
holidays. In their families they are not well nourished, most of them do not
have a bed of their own and sleep on a mat spread on the floor.
Our sick
children cause high expenses. There are not only the medical costs, but also
the air fare from Phaplu to Kathmandu and back to Solu Valley. Sonam Dolkar,
for instance, still has to go to Kathmandu for regular check-ups which result
in continuous expenses for transportation and medicines. We have just taken
Tsering Dorje who already attends school in Junbesi and Chepal to Kathmandu
for thorough examinations. We are still looking for a place to stay for them
as they do not have any relatives in the city. |
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