An answer to prayer

A new well at INF's Green Pastures Hospital in Pokhara is an answer to prayer for long-serving staff member Nandakali Thapa.

Ever since it was founded in 1957, the Hospital for people with leprosy and other disabilities has had difficulties with its water supply. However, donor organisation Samaritan's Purse recently gave INF a large sum which has enabled Green Pastures to establish a new tube well that now ensures a more than adequate supply of water to the Hospital.

Nandakali, 57, has worked at Green Pastures as a cook for 34 years. She first visited the Hospital as a patient in 1959, aged just 7, when she was suffering from leprosy. At that time supplies of water had to be carried by hand to Green Pastures from the Seti River, a 40-minute walk away. Later a hand pump was built to supply water for drinking and cooking, then another pump which brought a greater supply directly from the river - but was stolen. After the theft of the pump the Hospital was obliged to purchase water from the city authorities and from a nearby forestry campus. 'We prayed that a new source of water would become available,' says Nandakali, 'but we didn't know how it would be possible.'

INF would like to express its gratitude to Samaritan's Purse for helping to establish the new well at Green Pastures Hospital.

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