User:Laxmighimire

[RCCD Nepal and Learning Center Project]www.rccdnepal.org

RCCD Nepal is a non-profit charitable organization founded by Laxmi Ghimire, a medical graduate from Nepal. It is dedicated to working for better education and health care services for the underprivileged Nepali kids and adults.

People in most of the villages of Nepal are either illiterate or school drop-outs. A majority of them are either compelled by their domestic situations to start working as laborers (with minimal wage) at an early age or most of the times education and school maybe plain boring for these easy going children and young adults. Most of these people belong to the underprivileged lower socioeconomic strata and are usually from the scheduled caste and ethnic groups within the country’s socio-cultural diversity. They do not have access to basic education or primary health care / education and hygiene. Hence even preventable common infectious diseases like diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid, cholera end up in serious complications most of the time. Due to lack of knowledge, sanitation and poor nutrition minor trauma like cuts and bruises lead to prolonged hospitalization.

Idea behind the project

A kind soul from Finland ( Keijo Matikainen) sponsored me( Laxmi Ghimire, the founder) all the way to the high school, and it is due to this that I can see the greater world and I want to give others a hope for a better future as well. Of the twenty friends I attended school with, none of them graduated from high school despite some of whom had great potential.. In February of 2009, I traveled back to my rural village Nepal, and saw most of them married with kids and working as laborers. I got the opportunity to go to a better high school where the academic environment was stimulating and my quality education paved my way to becoming a doctor and providing me with ample opportunities to see and know the world outside my country. Now I have the opportunity to help the ones who need my help so that they are not deprived of basic education and health care, the backbones of development. I dream to make my village one in which its majority are high school graduates with access to basic healthcare and knowledge of preventive health.