Nepal Trip is Booked!
Peter Travis
Issue date: 3/19/10 Section: Life & Times
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Aditya Mahara (Class of 2012) came to Rollins last year and saw a need as well as an opportunity. He saw the need to do something about the inequalities within the education system and healthcare standards among the populations of underprivileged regions of the Asian nation and his home country, Nepal.
Luckily, and more importantly, Mahara saw the opportunity to dedicate the time, passion and resources found in the Rollins student body to Nepal where there could help be part of a solution to the severe poverty facing the nation. So Mahara decided to propose a new international program that would give students the chance to travel to his home country and give first-hand aid to those in need.
"This came about my first semester freshmen year. I did stuff like this in rural areas, so I just thought we could do this with Rollins students on a really broad international level," said Mahara.
To achieve his goal, he came up with an eight-page proposal for a joint initiative with the Sagarmatha Health Foundation, a non-profit organization established by a group of medical professionals who aim to provide good health services to the poor Nepalese living in the rural areas of Nepal. This international mission would aim to be what is being called a "Quick Win Project." This project "will aim to provide basic health care services in conjunction with educational material distribution and education for women, children and communities about HIV and AIDS," as quoted from the organizations website.
Mapsofworld.com has information of not only all the countries of the world but also their political, social and economic information, and they identify Nepal's healthcare system as lacking "absent of primary health care centers," having "very few good and qualified doctors [who are] not efficiently trained and qualified" as well as Nepal having a "lack of modern and technologically advanced equipments" to work with.
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