Voice of Hope

Excerpt from Sangeeta’s newsletter

In Biratnagar, Nepal, Svoyamsevaka community health worker Sangeeta spends a great deal of time helping others. As a professional nurse and volunteer health worker, she visits clients who are in need of care, health education, or advocacy. Below is Sangeeta’s written account of her time with client Binita Paswan:

“In my community, most of people are from lower class family. Among that most of people are uneducated so most of them careless about their health and some of them are having high blood pressure and diabetes and they do not take prescribed medicine. Not only that but the financial condition also not so good because of that they are unable to afford medicine also. Near by me, I have one family in my community members named Binita Paswan who is 76 years old. She is having one sided paralysis and speech loss. Somehow they visited hospitals and doctors prescribed some injection medicine and they requested me to apply daily so I was serving he since two weeks. At the day of end while giving injection she started to speak some words and it make me so happy. Now she is getting more better than before. Till now I am visiting and serving her.”

We are so grateful for our colleagues who put such compassion and care into their communities, and for supporters like you who help make stories like Binita’s possible!