Handing out our handout

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Vince has been to Nepal three times and has some good friends there now. One family belongs to the highest caste and have some backing behind them. Another girl, we’ll call her Monica, is not so lucky. On the second visit, he took several Australians with him to visit Monica and her family. Some of them have visited her on other occasions. For a couple of years now, we have been paying the school fees for the girl’s nephew. Because of the coronavirus, seniors in Australia have received government handouts. We earmarked half of ours for next year’s fees for Neev, the little boy but have since discovered that the situation in Nepal is dire. We found a way to send money to Nepal without wasting heaps of it in fees. Vince’s Australian friends and ourselves have now sent money to Monica. Here is what she is doing with the money. Some has gone to a single mother who was on the point of starving; she has bought supplies for her husband’s grand-mother who had no food, she has bought essential medicines for her husband and father-in-law, both of whom are diabetic, and with the rest, she is buying supplies for her own and her in-law families. Hopefully, this will tide them over the worst period. Once again, I’m counting my blessings. The photo is of some school-children in Kathmandu.