On SATURDAY 13th MAY 2017 I shall be walking 20km along the South Downs Way in East Sussex for Doctors for Nepal, http://www.doctorsfornepal.org/, a UK registered charity no. 113344.  I will be part of TEAM DFN which is taking part in this year's JUST WALK sponsored charity event https://www.just-walk.co.uk/. I will be hiking across the beautiful South Downs National Park in West Sussex, to raise much needed funds to provide scholarships to under-privileged medical and nursing students to train to become doctors and nurses. Beginning and ending at the Goodwood Racecourse in Chichester, Team DFN will be walking the 20km route. Please do consider sponsoring me and the intrepid DFN team of walkers here, and if you would like to join in the fun, you've still got time to register so please contact me on cesca@doctorsfornepal, and I'll be happy to give you details on how you too can WALK FOR DOCTORS FOR NEPAL.   

WHAT IS DOCTORS FOR NEPAL?  

DFN aims to improve healthcare in rural Nepal by providing scholarships to under-privileged medical and nursing students. They then return to their communities to provide much needed medical care. DFN was founded by Dr Kate Yarrow in 2008, after spending a year working in the remotest part of Nepal for the international aid organisation Médecins sans Frontières, she made a promise to a young healthcare worker Lalit, that she would sponsor him to fulfil his dream of becoming a doctor.  DFN currently supports 7 medical and 3 nursing students. Our first student – Lalit graduated as a doctor in September 2012 and two further students –Meena and Nahakul completed their training in September 2016.  

THE COST OF EACH MEDICAL STUDENT IS IN EXCESS OF £30,000, A SUM THAT ONLY THE RICHEST OF FAMILIES CAN AFFORD IN NEPAL.

By supporting Doctors for Nepal, you will be not only be changing the life of one student, but potentially helping to bring medical care to tens of thousands of patients who currently have to walk for days to reach even the most basic of medical care.    

To find out more about DFN please visit http://www.doctorsfornepal.org/