The Hospital by the River by Catherine Hamlin

It costs $4450 twin share plus a $400 registration fee and $2900 minimum charity donation.Īustralian Himalayan Foundation Chairman’s Trek in China The 12-day trip raises funds for WWF and includes sightseeing in Delhi and Rishikesh and a trek through traditional Hindu villages. The 11-day trip in November costs $2290 plus a $200 registration fee and $1000 minimum charity donation.Ĭombine an introductory trek with the chance to spot tigers in their natural habitat at Corbett National Park in February. It includes volunteer work at the Cambodian Bear Sanctuary and Laos Tat Kuang Si Bear Rescue Centre. Go trekking, mountain biking and kayaking to raise money for Free the Bears, including the new bear house in Cambodia that houses 12 cubs (the “dirty dozen”). USC Dirty Dozen Challenge in Laos and Cambodia The October tour costs $5600 twin share plus a $400 non-refundable registration fee and a minimum $2900 charity donation. This 12-day tour, which raises money for the World Wildlife Fund, includes visits to the Borneo Orang-utan Survival Foundation, the jungles of Central and North Kalimantan to see orang-utans in their natural environment and a WWF reforestation site. Rosie Langley and a local woman at Turmi in Ethiopia. The older ones who go to school were mad keen to practise their English. Every hand in our group was held by a child. “Several times we would stop in these places and we’d go out walking and there would be one or two kids then suddenly there would be all these children,” she says. While the tour was confronting at times, Langley also had many uplifting experiences.ĭriving through rural villages, children would stand and wave and do dances on the side of the road. Some have had quite a lot of surgeries and still have problems.” “Most of them can be helped, but some can’t. “The patients just broke your heart,” Langley says.

“Many of the staff members are young women who have been cared for and helped by Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia themselves,” Langley says.įormer patients are trained to make handicrafts, grow vegetables or work in a cafe so they can earn a living to look after their children. The 16-day tour included a visit to the hospital as well as the Hamlin College of Midwives, a regional hospital in Ethiopia’s south, and a rural midwifery clinic. Dr Catherine Hamlin at Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia Picture: Supplied

The Hospital by the River by Catherine Hamlin