Seeing Hands in the Lonely Planet!

We're delighted to announce that the clinic has featured in the latest edition of the Nepal Lonely Planet, which came out at the beginning of September. Marketing-wise, this is a huge leap forward for us and should help dramatically to raise awareness about our services and bring many more paying clients through the clinic's doors. This is key to the project's sustainability as the clinic's income from customers helps to cover the cost of training more students, and expanding the project so more blind people can benefit and be employed as Seeing Hands Masseurs. To buy the book visit: http://shop.lonelyplanet.com

Jo Returns

Yet another big thankyou to Jo Chatfield who returned to Nepal in August for her third stint of volunteering for us, along with her friend Sarah (pictured doing theory revision with Chiran).







They've spent the past few weeks, refining the students' techniques and doing revision and mock tests in preparation for their final exams. All the students are now progressing well and have worked hard studying during the monsoon months. They have done plenty of massage treatments on volunteer clients too, and we now expect them to all qualify when we return in October. Pictured are photos taken by Jo of all the students in action.




Jo and Sarah took over from Andrew Toal and his daughter Lorna, who braved the monsoon rains to spend a few weeks volunteering for us at the beginning of August. Andrew is an experienced Sports Masseur, a lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology, and more Nepal-savvy than most (having visited Nepal countless times for trekking and climbing trips over the past 25 years). Lorna is a recently qualified therapist too so the students got real value from them as a team, and are well on their way to qualifying. We particularly like the great new t-shirts (Pictured in Jo's photos) that they kindly arranged for and gave to the students as gifts. Pictured below is Andrew with the students.