Word: shrestha
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...grew up listening to heavy metal and rock, yet I find your songs really catchy. What sort of music do you listen to? Vinaya Lal Shrestha KATHMANDU, NEPAL...
...Shrestha had some ideas. A onetime Peace Corps employee who earned his master's degree in international health at Tufts University in Massachusetts, he returned to Nepal in 1991, at about the time the vitamin program was getting under way, and offered his assistance...
...receptive unless they felt some ownership of it. So he began traveling through remote areas, explaining the benefits of vitamin A and looking for volunteers to help distribute the pills. When he signed someone up, he would return for a follow-up visit, accompanied by the district chief. Shrestha would make a show of asking passersby for directions to the volunteer's home; with the chief in the car, it was clear they must be on some vital business. "Whole families had to feel it was important," Shrestha says...
...Shrestha clearly had a knack for this kind of thing, but his next idea was pure genius. As the need for volunteers grew more acute, he started thinking about which individuals in Nepalese society--or most societies, for that matter--have the most influence in the family but are the least utilized. That's when he came up with the grandmothers. They have the time to distribute the pills and the moral authority to see that the children jolly well take them. And it didn't matter if some of the women were too frail to make the rounds...
...female community health volunteers (FHCVs) distributing vitamin A to 3.5 million Nepalese children every year. Since the 1980s, infant mortality in the country has been cut in half; the program is now getting the vitamin to pregnant women too, among whom eye disease has plummeted, from 23% to 3%. Shrestha does not minimize what he has accomplished for his country, but he is too modest to make a fuss about it. "As a Nepali," he says, "I figured it was my duty...