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In November of 2015 myself and three other female volunteers traveled from India to work on the Computer Lab Nepal project. After spending two weeks in India’s Odisha recovering from hostility from the locals and being cooped up in our host families home and not allowed to leave our donated ambulance transport arriving in Nepal was a bit of a shock to the system. The project I was working on was spearheaded by Prem Kunwar, a very nice Nepali man who dedicates his life to providing for his people in honor of his deceased sister, and the organization Karma Flights who’s parent organization is Cloudbase based in the US. Both organizations are founded and managed by paragliding pilots who are passionate about giving back. The woman who was heading up the project on our end was Kara Moyes, who’s Husband is a paraglider connected with Karma Flights founder Matt Cone. Working with the organization Orphans to Ambassadors, Kara partnered with Prem in fundraising and organ...

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That’s what the people of Nepal are paying for their Petrol (what us Americans call “Gas”). I arrived in Khatmandu on November 2, 2015 after two weeks in India building a chicken coop in the Odisha state. The taxi cabs were outside waiting for customers to drive to their destinations. Kara, Katherine, Barb and myself had heard stories and rumors about the 2015 fuel crisis in Nepal but had yet to see its impact. We were there to meet up with the Karmaflights team that was partnering with Orphans to Ambassadors in building a solar powered computer lab for a school in a small village called “ Arnakot “. Just a few weeks before us a few of the Karmaflights team had left for Khatmandu and found themselves stranded in China as their flights were canceled. Canceled because, while the planes had the fuel to get to Khatmandu Nepal, they did not have enough to get out and fueling up while in Nepal was not an option. While in India just before we arrived in Khatmandu...