Breaston Ladies Conservative Coffee Club
Our September speaker was Dot O’Brien Dot and her husband had been trekking in Nepal for 14 years and decided to help the Nepalese in a village called Mirge where there was no electricity, poor water supply and very poor conditions. Mirge is very remote, 5 miles from Katmandhu and the road is dreadful, un-tarmacked and very stony. The countryside is mountainous and very beautiful but the roads are often impassable in monsoon weather. We were told about the family unit they decided to help who understood English well but wouldn’t speak it. The homes of some of the families are very basic and the whole family work very hard on the land in various ways, even the old people. The father of the family they helped earns 80p per day quarrying slate whilst the women grind millet to make flour. Many men work in the trekking industry. It is a poor subsistence and a cashless society with people swapping their goods to enable a living. Women wear nose jewellery to indicate their married status. After the earthquake in 2015 the school, health centre and nearly all of the houses and other buildings were left unusable and the army were allocated one week in the village to clear the rubble. No help was given to rebuild so Dot and her husband helped fundraise for a new school and health centre. In the meantime, people were sleeping in tents provided by the Red Cross and children were being taught in tin shelters. Some children walk for 2 hrs each way to get to school and back. There is no health and safety out there for building workers, who were seen balancing on scaffolding in flip flops and wearing only sunglasses to protect their eyes whilst welding. A young man who they funded to train as a pharmacist in China does everything from helping in childbirth to sewing on a severed finger. Midwives have been provided with their own special equipment bags which contain only a plastic sheet and a razor blade. Our next talk on Wednesday 18th October is ‘A potted history of the garden’ by Julia Powell 9-45am The Navigation Inn, Risley Lane, Breaston. New members welcome.
Our September speaker was Dot O’Brien Dot and her husband had been trekking in Nepal for 14 years and decided to help the Nepalese in a village called Mirge where there was no electricity, poor water supply and very poor conditions. Mirge is very remote, 5 miles from Katmandhu and the road is dreadful, un-tarmacked and very stony. The countryside is mountainous and very beautiful but the roads are often impassable in monsoon weather. We were told about the family unit they decided to help who understood English well but wouldn’t speak it. The homes of some of the families are very basic and the whole family work very hard on the land in various ways, even the old people. The father of the family they helped earns 80p per day quarrying slate whilst the women grind millet to make flour. Many men work in the trekking industry. It is a poor subsistence and a cashless society with people swapping their goods to enable a living. Women wear nose jewellery to indicate their married status. After the earthquake in 2015 the school, health centre and nearly all of the houses and other buildings were left unusable and the army were allocated one week in the village to clear the rubble. No help was given to rebuild so Dot and her husband helped fundraise for a new school and health centre. In the meantime, people were sleeping in tents provided by the Red Cross and children were being taught in tin shelters. Some children walk for 2 hrs each way to get to school and back. There is no health and safety out there for building workers, who were seen balancing on scaffolding in flip flops and wearing only sunglasses to protect their eyes whilst welding. A young man who they funded to train as a pharmacist in China does everything from helping in childbirth to sewing on a severed finger. Midwives have been provided with their own special equipment bags which contain only a plastic sheet and a razor blade. Our next talk on Wednesday 18th October is ‘A potted history of the garden’ by Julia Powell 9-45am The Navigation Inn, Risley Lane, Breaston. New members welcome.
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