One meeting - and hope that I can help them again and again...

September 2009. During a one-week homestay with Lhapka (our local representative in Kathmandu) and his wife Rita, I was fortunate to experience their everyday life of these Nepalese friends. The children we support in Kathmandu, and their families, knew that I was in Nepal and I spent the first few days anxiously looking forward to meeting them. Unfortunately, thanks to some bad luck, when student Tenzin Woeden and his mother decided to spontaneously visit me at Lhapka’s house, I happened to be out of town, breathing the fresh air of Pokhara for a few days. Upon my return to Kathmandu, I was delighted to find a short but touching note that Tenzin had left for me. It was thus my turn to go to their place!