Today was a full and intense day dedicated to the Dhikure school and orphanage.
In the morning all the children and their parents joined us, even from the nearby villages, and we started distributing the clothes collected thanks to the contribution of the Nepalese donors in the ODV Heart.
After the warm welcome ceremony with the delivery of the traditional KAATTA (colorful well-wishing scarves), there was a succession of exciting interventions: typical dances proposed by the older girls, songs and more institutional speeches.
We delivered balls, pens, colored pencils and other teaching materials to the principals of Dhikure, Nalidanda and Bakhare.
The afternoon continued with dancing and singing together, ending with a dinner shared with the teachers, the resident children and the porters who accompanied us on this trek.
Today was also the last day among the villages of Okhaldhunga and both among the boys and among us, a few tears highlighted the richness of these meetings.
Ngima Sherpa has been wearing it for years several hikers, some of them from Varese or Varese, one step away from the highest peaks in the world in his native Nepal (HERE is the series of articles entitled “Nepali Diary”).
Ngima is 56 years old, Nepalese and has lived in Varese for almost 20 years with his family, wife and four children. He is the president of “Okhaldhunga Nine Hill Association”, as well as managing the “Unlimited Sherpa Expeditions” agency. For a few months he has also been president of the “Nepal nel cuore ODV” association.
Together with his association based in Nepal, he organizes various types of trips. With this group of solidarity walkers will cross villages and places where few hikers have had the chance to arrive, taking advantage of a significant and important opportunity. Through the help and charity of many individual friends and associations Ngima and his collaborators have managed to do a lot: four schools, an orphanage, long-distance adoptions, an underground tank of drinking water, a crematorium, two clinics, a clinic for hygiene and sanitation for women, a delivery room, solar panels, a fireplace, a stove, two decks, a radio and much more.
This year the group that is preparing is made up of 10 people who, through word of mouth, savoring a Nepalese dinner, participating in a Tibetan bell event, have entrusted themselves to Ngima and his “Nine Hills” staff to travel this journey together.
For those who want to know the realities Ngima Sherpa deals with, here are the references: www.ninehills.org.np, www.unlimitedninehills.com, Facebook (here), the contacts of “Nepal nel cuore ODV” ([email protected], [email protected], 329-4439236).
