Our current needs – can you help?
Nepal Emergency Flood Support
Nepal Flood Relief: Emergency Appeal
Please consider making an emergency contribution to Dooley Intermed’s Nepal Flood Relief effort today. Gifts of every size will help us deliver urgently needed supplies and assistance directly to people whose lives have been devastated by catastrophic flooding.
Immediate Relief Underway
Dooley Intermed, working with our in-country partner Asiatic Roads, is delivering relief materials to families in urgent need following the recent floods in Nepal. Supplies are being transported to a holding center in Trishuli Bazaar, where a hot kitchen is serving displaced families.
Relief teams are also traveling to hard-to-reach communities on the opposite side of the Trishuli River, where regular road access has been cut off. A hot kitchen in that area is assisting approximately 110 families but is now facing a food shortage. The only available route is a 4WD track via the Prithvi Highway, with an estimated travel time of 11 hours from Kathmandu.
Supplies Being Delivered
The current delivery includes food-service items and staple ingredients to help the kitchens continue preparing meals:
- Paper plates
- 50 kg potatoes
- 50 kg tomatoes
- 50 kg yellow lentils (dal)
- 25 kg dry beans
- 30 liters of cooking oil
- Approximately 25 kg salt packets
- Additional cooking ingredients and essential supplies
- A water dispenser requested by kitchen operators
Support for Remote Families
With your help, we can continue supporting villagers in remote, far-flung communities. The next phase of assistance will provide family packages with essential cooking and serving items.
- Cooking/frying pan, 1 unit — NPR 800 / USD 4.40
- Serving spoons, 2 units — NPR 190 / USD 1.25 per set
- Dinner plates, 3 units — NPR 300 / USD 2.00 per set
- Pressure cooker, 3-liter, 1 unit — NPR 1,800 / USD 12.00
- Bowls, 3 units — NPR 150 / USD 1.00 per set
Estimated cost per family: USD 20.65
Your Gift Can Bring Hope
Together, we can help families recover, keep community kitchens operating, and bring hope to people facing extraordinary hardship. Please make an emergency contribution today to support Nepal flood relief.
Together, we can bring hope to the community!
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Ongoing needs – can you help?
“The Florence Nightingales Of Nepal”
Female Healthcare Volunteer Training Program
An article in the British publication Lancet referred to these incredibly dedicated female healthcare providers as “The Florence Nightingales of Nepal.” Florence Nightingale was a hero and considered to be the founder of modern nursing. In 1844, she gave up a life of comfort and privilege, against her parents’ wishes, to pursue nursing. She was so dedicated to nursing that she often cared for patients at night, by lamplight, instead of sleeping. That is how she acquired her nickname, “the Lady with the lamp.” Her pioneering efforts reduced hospital deaths by two-thirds!
In her spirit and honor, Dooley Intermed initiated a series of training programs for female healthcare workers in Nepal, empowering these women with new skills and knowledge to enhance the quality of care rendered in remote villages. Our programs each train 20+ carefully selected candidates from remote villages who participate in an intensive 40-hour training program. Upon successful completion, each graduate receives a comprehensive portable medical kit equipped with a stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, thermometer, scale, medical references, and basic supplies. Most importantly, they are empowered with new knowledge, skills, and the professional contacts needed when more advanced medical advice and referrals are required.
Traveling on foot along trails to outlying communities, they serve as the frontline healthcare workers, helping to eradicate diseases, treating childhood illnesses, and providing vital medical aid to people with nowhere else to turn.
The need for this type of training is enormous. Based on the great success of our previous Dooley Intermed training programs, word has spread, and we are now receiving multiple requests from volunteer healthcare workers in many other villages seeking similar training.
It costs $5,000 USD to conduct a complete training program including professional instruction, textbooks, reference materials, a medical kit for each graduate, and a modest stipend to cover the cost of food and transportation to enable women from very poor villages to attend.
Please consider sponsoring a class to empower these truly remarkable female healthcare workers, the “Florence Nightingales of Nepal” to help bring ongoing medical care to remote villages in one of the world’s most impoverished countries.
Florence Nightingale – Mother of Nursing
