Spring-Summer Newsletter 2012

 

In early March 2012, our V.P of Asian Programs, Scott Hamilton, made a personal site visit to the new orphanage, (above) being constructed near the village of Dhulikhel.  For a number of years Dooley Intermed has provided ongoing support for the children at the New Youth Children’s Development Society Orphanage in Kathmandu. Dooley quite literally saved these young children from being turned out into the streets a few years ago when their situation was truly desperate, and has since provided them with food, medical care, bedding, new clothes and shoes. We are happy to report that an American couple recently established a non-profit organization specifically to provide ongoing support for the NYCDS. Thus we are very pleased the needs of this original group of children will be met on an ongoing basis. Dooley has provided vital assistance to these children during a time of great need, and we can now shift our attention toward helping more orphaned children in Nepal who desperately need our help.

  Gift of Sight Program Update

Dooley-Intermed’s eye and vision project is focused on the Mustang region of Nepal, and has provided free examinations, eyeglasses and ophthalmic surgeries to all in need. The cataract eye surgery program helped thousands of patients to see again – Dooley-Intermed hosted 12 clinics, screened 1600 patients in remote villages during the 2011 project and will continue this life changing program in 2012 and beyond with your help.

The story of Chime…

As mentioned above, last summer Dooley Intermed sponsored an ambitious eye project in the “Forbidden Kindgom” of Mustang, an area of Nepal adjoining Tibet, one of the poorest regions in the entire country.  While hosting our eye and medical camps in the ancient walled city of Lo Manthang, we heard about a young girl who could not see.  She lived with an elderly mother who was unable to escort her to the Dooley sponsored clinic. Late on our second day, after seeing almost 900 patients, we made a house call, walking to the small hut where they lived.  Inside was Chime, age 14, rendered profoundly blind by an eye infection when she was an infant.  Click Here to Continue the history

NICARAGUA

We are pleased to report to our generous contributors some exciting new developments that have taken place over the past year in our Maternal and Child Miskito Indian program:

Working closely with our long time local partner, the Santa Ines Clinic of Waspam, Dooley-Intermed established an innovative educational project training local mothers to act as Community Doulas in their remote, isolated villages. A doula is a trained assistant who provides physical, emotional, and practical support to women during pregnancy, childbirth, and care of their newborns. This new and successful initiative is culturally appropriate, since it builds upon the time-immemorial Miskito tradition of cooperative village life known locally as “pana-pana” (“buddy to buddy help”); that is, a strong commitment to reciprocity among extended family networks and neighbors.     Click Here to Continue the history

Thailand

For over 30 years, Dooley Intermed has provided financial support to a self help, small enterprise project, training village women and displaced refugees in handicraft techniques, making marketable products and earning them much needed income.

With ongoing assistance from Dooley Intermed, Vanida Mongkhone, Director and founder of the handicraft program has been able to expand her program, and has established a training center in the town of Nong Khai in northern Thailand on the Lao border, with a staff of five highly skilled trainers who are expert in the techniques of sewing, weaving and handicraft design. This training program is much in demand by village women, as they know it represents an opportunity to have a better life for themselves and their families.

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