PAHAD News 11

Times have been turbulent in my country and life has been difficult for us all. However, I never seem to be amazed at the resilience of the human spirit in that day to day things get done in a day to day manner. This does apply to us here at PAHAD where we do our jobs conscientiously no matter what is happening around us. Those of us who are studying study hard, others work hard at their jobs and at the same time all of us find the extra time to devote to our organization and thereby contribute significantly towards the helping of the less privileged in our society. Let me give you a few examples.

Major Rai is always there when we need him, running around on his bicycle, trying hard to earn more money for PAHAD. With Major Mallal the two of them must have cajoled most of their friends and relatives to become members. Mrs. Rai together with member Kalyani Moktan are the mainstay of our now successful annual mela. It was great to see the spouses (mine included) take an active part at the mela. They gave up a Saturday to help us out.

Then there are our young members like Hikmat and Bhaba who are trying to balance hard so many different activities successfully. Members like Ram Babu Subedi and D K Sherstha, so busy with their jobs at Budhanilkantha, have contributed greatly to PAHAD’s activities. Mr. Subedi is now helping to raise funds by bringing out a magazine “Glimpse” which will also be a window into the world of Pestalozzi. Here, I must not, of course, forget our student members like Tara, Sushila and Ambika who redeem themselves by turning up and working very hard just as I am threatening dire actions against them! PAHAD is a motley team with members from different walks of life but we meet and we work together to try and make life a bit more bearable for a few of the underprivileged in our society. Thinking of all this makes my job as the Chairperson very easy and I am grateful to all members who work so hard for the organization. At the same time I am also grateful to our members and honorary members living abroad. They remember PAHAD again and again and help us out financially. Every little bit helps and I thank them.

Finally it is so good to learn that our children at the Asian Village are doing so well. Our wards here at various schools in the valley and outside are also doing well and that is definitely something all of us have contributed towards and we should be proud about. Let us hope that 2006 will be a good year not just for PAHAD but for our dear country and my very best wishes to all our readers.


Jana Thapa