Caring for People Affected by HIV & AIDS in Nepal

Sometimes our plans don’t go according to how we thought!

We had planned to have a workshop on healthy families and HIV and AIDS Awareness  at Chapakot.  We arrived on Sunday as the training was to start the next day. We woke up on Monday morning with hope to see new people, but as time passed, no one came. One hour later a sick woman came. I did not understand completely what was happening.  We gathered together with the lady and we sang a couple of songs.  Shortly after that, participants slowly started to arrive at the venue.  Sixteen people came for the training and three of them were touched in a significant way.

One baby boy was unable to suck from his mother breast.  Our team member visited their family and interacted together with the woman.That night he began to suckle successfully! A baby girl was sick with stomach pain, headache and vomiting.  Her parents asked us to pray for her and after three days she was completely healed!

The first woman we mentioned had many different problems in her life. She was feeling alone and not feeling loved.  She had fear because of all the stress and anger.  She joined us for the four days of training.  Every day after training we interacted with her and listened.  By the end of our time together, she was so much better than when she arrived.   

We did not have plans to visit any schools, but a door opened to go to one, and so we did.  The school head principle gave two hours’ time for HIV and AIDS Awareness class.  We had 22 students join us from the 6th, 7th and 8^th gradeclasses. They learned how HIV is transmitted and how it is not transmitted.  All the students were interested to listen to the story and learn action songs. 

We found that even though our original plans did not go the way we had thought they would go, it turned out even better!