One of the most satisfying aspects of our work is providing timely, strategic help—instantly and without red tape—to many desperate people. These small acts of assistance make a crucial difference. Here is a very partial list of good works we have been able to do, with help from our supporters:

• We have subsidized heart surgeries for 50 patients at Nepal’s only heart hospital. Most of these were children. Interestingly, all these life-saving procedures were the result of contributions made by a single NYOF donor. Our hats off to him – he has helped to save 50 lives! The average contribution of NYOF to each surgery was about $300. The heart hospital donates some of the cost of the surgery and hospitalization, a foundation established with funds from the estate of a member of the royal family also donates a percentage, and some of the children’s families, all totally impoverished, are able to raise funds in their communities. Click here if you would like to learn about some of these heart-wrenching stories. But all’s well that ends well: the children you will learn about have all been operated on successfully.

• We paid for surgery for a young boy who was seriously injured when he was run over by a tractor. The accident happened when the boy, in his excitement at seeing a vehicle for the first time after a new road to his village was opened, ran beside the tractor and fell under it.
  
  
• We have paid a number of times for destitute families who were stranded in Kathmandu to return to their villages.
  
  
• We pay the room rent for the alcoholic parents of some of the children at K House who would otherwise live on the street.
  
  
• We have provided life-saving support for children with leukemia, cancer, and kidney failure. One of them is a very bright and sweet-natured l4 year old orphan boy with leukemia. His two sisters, 10 and 12 years old, are both working as child servants. NYOF has been financing his chemotherapy treatments.
  
  
• On regular visits to remote areas where we have programs, our field workers identify children in need and bring them to Kathmandu with their parents for medical care or other assistance they may require.

Suffering abounds in a poor country like Nepal, but the flip side is that it takes so little, in developed-country terms, to make a big difference.