Rajesh and Rosena

Rajesh b.2007 and Rosena b. 2010 are the small children of Ishwor and Ranjana. Ishwor, a professional builder, worked on the house Alain had built in 2009-2010. They remained very good friends. The family rents a small room in Kathmandu and the children were going to a local government school.

In February 2012 Ishwor fell from a third floor on a building job two days before Alain arrived in Nepal. He was rushed to the hospital and nearly did not make it. On his visit to the hospital straight after his arrival in Kathmandu, Alain spoke to the doctors in charge and realised that the situation was dire. Only a long stay in hospital followed by re-education to rebuild the wasted muscles would be Ishwor's only chance for survival and eventual return to some working life to support his family and parents instead of a life in a wheel chair. 

As medical treatments are not free in Nepal and the cost being way beyond most people's financial means drives relatives too often take the sick out before they are fully healed, this with disastrous consequences.There was no way the family would be able to pay, even with selling the parents' farm in one of the poorest districts of Nepal. The Alain Rouveure Nepal Fund took charge of all the medical costs and was able to provide an interest free loan to make sure that the family could survive safely. 

It took nearly a whole year for Ishwor to recover. Alain came to know later that the children had both been taken out of school for the past six months as the parents were too embarrassed to ask for more help. This is how we came to take on the responsibility for the education of Rajesh and Rosena, now both day students to a much better school than before.