Our Charity in Focus is the Development Centre for Women and Children in Nepal: DCWC.

We take so much for granted: our homes, families, water, food, education and health. Even though we see disaster every time we listen to the news, to think of ourselves as being without such basic requirements is often unimaginable. Not so in places like Nepal, where there is no consistent government provision for the education, health and well being of all its citizens. Families live in such inaccessible places that if they can avail themselves of any education at all, the children have to walk many miles in order to do so. For many, it just isn’t even an option.

There are no doctors or nurses in the mountains and no transport for emergency medical care. If you are ill, you have to travel miles on foot to seek any assistance. Or hope and wait to recover.

DCWC raises funds to provide schools in the more remote places and also facilitates a three week health programme staffed by volunteer medical staff and assistants. It now wants to build a hospital which will make treatments more accessible.

The modus trust is committed to fund the building of three schools and a hospital wing over three years. Following this we will commit to a process of sustainability enabling the programmes to be funded and resourced as necessary.

The truth is that we will all leave a legacy whether we like it or not. I want our legacy to be deliberate, not accidental, and to be remembered for what we gave, not what we took.

Sue Hamilton.