Thursday 11 July 2013 11.55 BST Kanchha Sherpa will start practising on a medical bus in Melamchighyang, Nepal. Photograph: PR A son of yak farmers is to be the first ever doctor in his rural village in Nepal after graduating from Manchester Medical School this week. Kanchha Sherpa, 27, will […]
Daily Archives: 19 July, 2013
ABU DHABI // It took just three days in Nepal last month for five Emirati students at Zayed University to have their safe and comfortable worlds turned upside down. Reem Thani, Sahar al Musalli, Muneera al Hanjari, Fatima al Sayegh and Nada Ibrahim are still trying to come to grips […]
Nepal trip eye-opener to poverty ...
DUBAI // A charity gala has raised Dh95,000 to help build a new school in a deprived area of Nepal. Guests paid Dh350 each to attend the event, which was organised by Children of the Mountain and featured a silent auction and a raffle. “We had about 350 people attend […]