Unfortunately I am the first one of our group to get sick. Last night was a bit of a struggle but I'm feeling much better today as we get ready to drive to Nichuta, a village about an hour and a half away from Birgunj. The Literacy for Nepal library is located in Nichuta and we will be staying with Brijlal's family while we are there.
Our time in Birgunj has been great! Yesterday we spent most of the day in Brijlal's office. He works for a NGO called Sano Paila (A Little Step) that works towards building a better community by offering drug rehabilitation programs, increased awareness for health issues among many other topics. In his office we also met up with an organization called Freedom Matters which helps rescue children that have been trafficked into an Indian circus. This organization has rescued almost 500 children who are either reunited with their families or brought to a rehabilitation center and receive an education.
We then took a horse pulled rickshaw that brought us to the Indian border. The border was pretty crazy with huge trucks going back and forth with oil, food and other goods. We got to speak with customers inspectors at the border about what kinds of issues they deal with.
After returning to the Sano Paila office we were able to interview a few people and I even got to meet a Literacy for Nepal scholarship recipient. Anju is 19 and is attending school in Birgunj and hopes to become a teacher in the future. It is amazing to meet people that the LFN organization is helping.
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