My wife, Lorna and I recently visited Tansen Hospital and UMN projects in Nawalparasi District. The people UMN helps in its projects are not looking for handouts; they are just looking for an opportunity to escape the poverty that dominates their lives. It may seem a small thing, to help a person here and a person there, but in those small things you can see the face of God.

When I worked at UMN from 1992-1997, I was involved in multi-million dollar infrastructure projects that employed over a thousand Nepalis and many expatriates. Now, I am visiting projects where there are just a handful of employees, but their work is no less important.

– Gerald Norman Kent, UMN’s Funding Advisor