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The UK Team
Brian and Champa Metters are
both retired, Brian having run his own company as an organisational psychologist and Champa from being a school teacher. Their
regular trips to Nepal combine Champa's family visits with Brian's mountaineering expeditions. They were the overall
organisers of the highly successful Mike's Appeal from 1998. Sharon Metters was also involved in the Mike's Appeal
fundraising group with Michael Clack as her partner. Sharon works in Human Resource Management in the aviation industry and
Michael works as an industrial roofer. They also are regular visitors to Nepal. Andy Green has been supporting our fundraising
"most of this century"! He is a self employed financial advisor and has been trekking to Nepal three times.
The Kathmandu Team
The
Nepal Operations Team is led by Dr Madan Tuladhar who is Champa's brother and is a well known businessman in central Kathmandu
with business interests in a printing factory and an analytical laboratory. He is the chairman of a Buddhist culture and charitable
organisation for the poor in Kathmandu devoting much of his time to this. He is helped in our Nepal operations by a business
associate Laxmi Tuladhar who is also a serving district councillor and by Triratna Tuladhar who owns a large retail stationery
shop in Kathmandu. Triratna is president of the Nepal Stationers Association and is also a reputed social worker.
Our History-Mike's Appeal
Our son and brother, Mike, died from cancer
at the age of 22 on Christmas Eve 1997. Within weeks a large fund raising effort had begun which over the next 4 years achieved
so much. Here is a summary of what happened, and how:
Achievements:
Raising a total of approximately
£350,000 in three years.
"Touching" over one million people via our projects.
National
"Cancer in Young People Campaign" in 2000.
Funding a 3 year research fellowship at Oxford.
Contributing to building a health clinic in Humla, Nepal.
Funding the rebuilding of a monastery/education centre
in Humla, Nepal.
Funding the creation of a new facility for outpatients undergoing chemotherapy at the Churchill
Hospital, Oxford.
Making individual/personal grants to young people with cancer with financial difficulties.
Investing the residual funds to create a new charity, Nepal Schools Aid and provide a regular income to it
Educational support for the children of Nepal |
