nyaya health

There are a good number of people who want to do good, who make it a concrete goal, whose careers lie upon this idea, who think about it when making life decisions and when living day to day, weaving it into the background of going to school, making friends, finding love, having fun, getting a job. Then there are a rare few for whom doing good isn’t doing good; it’s just doing. It’s the forefront, the bulk, the background. We have a friend like this. Sometimes I read the blog for his organization, Nyaya Health, and I remember how narcissistic my blog is and how he uses this medium for something outside of himself, which is what I think writing should eventually achieve (in a very different, still narcissistic sort of way). His experiences fuel an anger over injustice that drives him, and never has self-fulfillment played a part. Even though most people don’t do good things mainly for self-fulfillment, it can’t help but be had. For him, he is so invested in others that there’s little room for getting anything for himself from it.

There are lots of reasons to support Nyaya Health, which administers primary care to a rural region in Nepal of a quarter million people that had no doctors or facilities, battling incredibly high rates of HIV, maternal mortality, and malnourishment. It’s committed to immediate care as well as long-term health models to care for those without. It’s not just helping out; it’s thinking about everything: management, infrastructure, microfinance, epidemiology.

But personally the reason I give you is that this person makes other people his life, not in addition to his own. Aud and I talk about how we all receive more than we give (not in a deliberate or selfish way, but in a human way). Sometimes people can be mostly givers, and that’s something worth supporting I think. He’d hate this reason for supporting Nyaya, but I think it’s a decent one.

You can read more about it here: http://www.nyayahealth.org

And you can donate here: http://www.nyayahealth.org/donate_now.html
Money can seem trivial because it can be easy, but I can guarantee any amount will be more gift given than received.