A former US ambassador agrees to open the next handover
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For a volunteer-run charity nine months old, the announcement was as much about credibility as about the ceremony itself.
Scott DeLisi, formerly the United States ambassador to Nepal, agreed to attend the organisation's handover ceremony at its construction site in Sindhupalchowk as chief guest. His non-profit, the Soarway Foundation, and Mission Rebuild Nepal began discussing where their work overlapped.
A nation requires a holistic approach to how we tackle these issues of risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery.
A scheduling conflict kept him from the March ceremony. The relationship held: he referred to Mission Rebuild Nepal in a widely shared interview later that month, and in April the Soarway Foundation donated $4,500 to the rebuilding project.
The organisation set out two aims for the partnership, in language plainer than most such announcements manage: to connect Nepalis around the world, and to work above political and personal interest by demonstrating hard work, discipline and accountability rather than describing them.
