Thursday, June 02, 2011

Why no girls? Although we are anxious to help blind women in Nepal, we do not yet have sufficient funds to open a third clinic in the next year, so it is possible these latest students will have to seek work in local spas and hotels when they graduate. Since such places would expect female therapists to massage males too, we feel the risks (the seedier side of massage still exists in Nepal) would be too high. We do however hope to train more girls in the future when we are sure we can offer them work within a safer, more caring environment.