Support our runners in the Royal Parks half marathon

We have 7 dedicated runners currently training for the Royal Parks Half Marathon on October 6th. We wish them lots of luck with their training. To help get them on their way - and to make their efforts worthwhile, please do visit their JustGiving pages and donate. Good luck guys! Mavis: http://www.justgiving.com/mad-mavis Adam Carter: http://www.justgiving.com/Adam-Carter4 Ana Lopez: http://www.justgiving.com/Ana-Lopes-Ascensao-Half-Marathon Charlotte Hanney: http://www.justgiving.com/Charlotte-Hanney Cathryn Kennedy: http://www.justgiving.com/Cathryn-Kennedy Oliver ...

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News from Medical student Meena

Namaste! I am doing very well.  My First year results came and I passed it with pretty good score.  My Second year is running quite smoothly. We are going to have Sports Week in the upcoming week.  I am planning to participate in Football, and Track and Field.  I am very excited and nervous at the same time! This coming Tuesday we have a festival called Holi, where we play with colors and balloons. We throw different colors, buckets of water,  and water balloons at our friends and family.  It is a really enjoyable festival and I am really excited to celebrate ...

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NEWS From Dr.Lalit

Dear Sponsors, I am well, and doing my internship at Nepalgunj Medical College, (Western Nepal). First of all , I would like to say thank you all who initiated and established DFN with your BIG Heart, very hard work and continuous kind support to the charity, without which it was impossible for me be here as a doctor. I would like to remind you of my life before 6 years ago;  I was a health assistant working with an international charity (Medecines Sans Frontiers) in Kalikot Hospita (rural area of far western Nepal).  I used to dream of becoming a doctor.  I was sure ...

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OUR LATEST NEWS

2012 has been a very special year for Doctors for Nepal, as we now have our very first Doctor for Nepal. Lalit was overjoyed in September to learn that he had passed his final exams at Nepalgunj School of Medicine, and is now well into his equivalent of a ‘house job’ at Nepalgunj Hospital. At Patan Academy of Health Science (PAHS), our students Nahakul and Meena are making good progress in their second year. They are enjoying the early introduction to work in rural communities and send us frequent updates which you can now view on our recently updated website. Doctors ...

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WHO RAISED WHAT IN 2012?

A huge thank you to the following people who completed various feats to raise money for our students this year. Natalie Thurtle and two others walked the Lapinta trail for two weeks unsupported in the middle of the Australian outback raising £690 well done for surviving! Ryan Hogan raised £785 running the Brighton Marathon - thank you Ryan. The following all ran the Royal Parks half marathon in London in October, raising £2957 between them. Thank you to all for the great effort. Nina Haefele, Mrinmayee and Abishek, Mark Paul, Sandeep Sudan, Stephanie Tilston, James ...

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