Introduction
Welcome under the Roof of the World!
Do you have an idea about what the Mount Everest is and where it is? Silly question. However, the fact is that poor people living just few dozens kilometers from there do not know. “Where is the Everest of your country?” pupils ask, looking at the map of the World. They are in the last grade and still try to find Nepal in Africa.
The quality of education in remote areas of Nepal is terribly bad: most of English teachers don’t understand a word English and children work in fields rather than going to school. Hardly can you blame them – we all have to eat something! Still, 55 % Nepali children live on one meal or less a day. Every fifteen minutes one child dies.
90 % of Nepalies depend on what they grow in their gardens and fields – mainly rice, millet and corn. Houses in villages are simple, often made of clay, with open fires on the floors and beds full of fleas. The richer can afford hens, goats or even a buffalo. Virtually they haven’t got any money. There are no roads to such places, there is no electricity, no shops or proper toilets, nothing to eat but rice and boiled vegetables. If somebody needs a doctor, he must rely on friends’ help, who would take him on a bamboo stretcher to the nearest bus stop. By and large a road is not tarred, so there are other tiring hours of bumping to the hospital for the patient ahead. He is still not home and dry. National health budget is four aspirins per person per year.
Regardless, Nepalies are smiling. Far away from the Western World, computers, supermarkets and mortgages they live in the same way as their ancestors did decades and hundreds of years ago. Yet, the difference is they’ve already seen white people spending “fortune” for a simple dinner and pictures of our houses, roads, hospitals and schools. They also want to live as we do – and they could. Some of them are clever and diligent enough to become managers, software engineers and financial consultants. The problem is they didn’t get any opportunity. Let’s give them a chance!
Bla bla Hug the World doesn’t venture to search for general solutions. We want to help real people who are willing to develop their potential. We want to give them a chance. Learn more about what we do, who we help to and how you can contribute!
