By Cesca Eaton | UK Operations Manager
Namaste!
Our charity’s name is DOCTORS FOR NEPAL, but did you know that we also offer scholarships to nurses and now, for the first time, to midwives?
It is with great excitement that we can announce the creation of the first midwifery degree level course in Nepal. In late June this year our founder, Dr Kate Yarrow, went to Nepal for an extremely busy and successful week. After months of hard work, Kate finally signed agreements to support the first ever midwifery degree-level course in Nepal. Doctors for Nepal will provide scholarships to the most needy and deserving, impoverished students from the Karnali region in mid-west Nepal. We have teamed up with the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS) in Jumla, where we are already sponsoring Prabha in her nursing degree studies. We are now able to provide two more nursing scholarships at KAHS along with three midwifery degree level scholarships.
We have also just taken on a new nursing student at Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) in Kathmandu. While Kate was there in June she welcomed 17 year-old Neelam into the DFN family. Neelam comes from the Terai region in Nepal and is 17 years old. Her parents are impoverished farmers who lost their home and income in recent flooding. Neelam is the youngest of 6 siblings. Up until now, her paternal Uncle has been trying to support her studies but cannot continue financial assistance. We are delighted to be able to step in to offer Neelam continued financial assistant so that she can enter into her 2nd and 3rd years of her staff nursing training. Welcome to the DFN family Neelam!
Exciting times for DFN as we continue to support doctors, nurses and now midwives to improve healthcare in rural Nepal.
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