Five years ago two German clinical psychologists, Katharina Tomoff and Micha Luedecke, volunteered for us at our Hetauda centre. They came as unknown quantities, but made a huge impact during their time with us, returning to Germany fired up to help us further. This is easier said than done as people return to their busy lives back home but last evening I heard from Katharina that she has now managed to register a supporting NGO in Germany. Her charity is called Hatemalo e.V.; Hatemalo is Nepali for "garland of hands" and e.V. indicates that this is a German registered charity.
Katharina will now have her work cut out in setting up website, literature and presenting plans to potential supporters. But this process has received an unexpected boost from Spain from where a translation agency, Uyngo.com, wrote to us out of the blue a few days' ago offering to translate documents and videos into a language of our choice as a free service out of respect for our work. Katharina's English is perfect but I have taken them up on their offer of subtitling one YouTube video which would otherwise have presented a technical problem. I will post the video on this site once it has been translated,
I love it when things come together like this and how marvellous are our worldwide volunteers!
