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Lewis Family in Nepal: May 2010
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Lewis Family in Nepal. Friday, May 7, 2010. Institute of World Mission, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Over April, 2010 we joined 14 other families at the Institute of World Mission (IWM) at the Park Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand. This is a workshop to prepare (or in some cases - refresh) families for work in a cross cultural environment. It is operated by a team from Andrews University, USA. There were people from all over the world. The record for serving before attending IWM! Karl (USA to Thailand in education) ...
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Lewis Family in PNG: July 2009
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Lewis Family in PNG. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Thailand Trip Part 3 Koh Samui. After flying out from Chiang Mai in the morning we arrived at the very 'flash tropical' Airport in Koh Samui, ready for a very restful three days. It was pouring rain! About the same as the average wet season downpour in Lae! The taxi drove off and we were stuck at a resort which had no real need to transport us to a competitor! Not the best start to this section of our holiday! It rained basically for another day and a half t...
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Lewis Family in PNG: Final Post for this Blog
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Lewis Family in PNG. Friday, January 15, 2010. Final Post for this Blog. I am writing this in my kitchen in Kathmandu, Nepal. I am sorry that it has been so long since the last posting at this blog. We have moved to Nepal where I will be working as the ADRA Country Director for ADRA Nepal. You can see our new blog at. I just wanted to put in some photos of our one month holiday in Australia. Tiarna and Jenaya were flower girls. Tiarna got a hole in one. Kalon, Jaxon, Ethan, Jenaya, Cooper, Tiarna. The gi...
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Lewis Family in PNG: Samoa Tsunami Response
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Lewis Family in PNG. Thursday, October 15, 2009. On October 9th I travelled to Samoa to assist in the ADRA New Zealand and ADRA Australia response to the Tsunami that occurred on September 29 (local date-Samoa is over the International Date Line). I travelled with Air Nugini. And with Air Pacific. If the plane had gone down I would have been in good company! I met Robert Patton and Sara McBride Steele both from NZ. I went to the IASC (Inter Agency Standing Committee is the organising body) meeting. To se...
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Lewis Family in Nepal: Far West Nepal ADRA Trip
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Lewis Family in Nepal. Friday, May 7, 2010. Far West Nepal ADRA Trip. ADRA Nepal currently have a project funded by ECHO through UNFPA running Reproductive Health Camps in the Far west of Nepal. The mobile camps spend 5 days in remote areas and treat all types of conditions but the main function is to refer women who have Uterine Prolapse to Nepalgunj Medical Teaching College Hospital for surgery. I went with a team from UNFPA and ECHO to do a monitoring trip to Bhajang. Nearly all of the houses have a s...
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Lewis Family in Nepal: July 2011
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Lewis Family in Nepal. Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Christianity, Freedom of Choice and Democracy. OpEd in the Republica Newspaper, July 7, 2011 by Sradda Thapa. It is disappointing when someone older and hopefully wiser, an editor even, can be so vindictive and distasteful. It is demeaning to the youth in this country and those that seek to embrace (and not just tolerate) differences in beliefs and opinions when such writers pit one group of Nepalis against another. I meet readers and friends today who tell...
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Lewis Family in Nepal: January 2010
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Lewis Family in Nepal. Thursday, January 21, 2010. Tiarna and Jenaya have begun school at Kathmandu International Study Centre (KISC). They had a 2.5 hours of assessment tests covering the "three R's"(breaks in between) and have been placed into Grade 5 and 3 respectively. The school is around 10-15 minutes walk and around 5-10 minute drive. that tells you something of the traffic issues here. As you can see it is rather cold here at the moment. The girls have thermal singlets on as well! There were arou...
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Lewis Family in Nepal: March 2010
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Lewis Family in Nepal. Saturday, March 20, 2010. I visited the Khokana Leprosy Colony in which ADRA Nepal has been working for many years. There are many positive initiatives here including income generation as well as continued medical support. There are many children of former leprosy patients that continue to live here as there is no other place to live for them. These residents could tell some stories. If only I could speak Nepali. This lady has specially made shoes that help her to walk around.
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Lewis Family in Nepal: February 2010
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Lewis Family in Nepal. Thursday, February 11, 2010. View from Our Roof. Today was the clearest air that we have seen in Kathmandu. It was raining two days ago and snowing in the mountains. The newspapers stated that some places received over a foot of snow which has not happened in 4 or 5 years in most places. (The WFP are feeding 1.2 million people in Nepal currently) In the Kathmandu valley the rain has cleared the air so we can actually see the mountains. View to the west. Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
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Lewis Family in PNG: May 2009
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Lewis Family in PNG. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Trip to Rabaul and Kokopo. In October 2008, Raul Schneider (Country Director ADRA PNG), Darin Roberts (ADRA Aust Program Manager) and I travelled to East New Britain for a Monitoring and Evaluation trip. with a little tourist activities thrown in. Here is a sample of the 'Tourist Activities' . Flying out from POM to Kokopo and watching a great sunrise over the Owen Stanley Ranges was amazing. Kokopo main beach and wharf with Mt Tavurvur in the background. Here ...
