Earthquakes - Gorkha, Western Nepal (I)
the adventure
"You Have Taught Us What Servant Leadership Means!"
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Beautiful, mountainous, Gorkha! It was my first time to this region. My mixed Nepalese-Singaporean team and I were here to deliver yet another edition of the Osmosis Leadership Program, where we would raise and train teams of servant leaders. I was glad to see the familiar faces of my many Nepalese facilitators again. We’d been serving together on so many varied missions that I was beginning to lose count. Our recent time together was just two months ago, where we’d mounted disaster response missions to help communities afflicted by the monsoon floods in various regions
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Jeebraj, my trusted Nepalese brother, had come here with Indu, his wife, a week earlier to prepare the host village for the week-long course. Looking at the freshly-erected sleeping tentatages and shower huts, the stockpile of vegetables and chickens, as well as the many hundreds of small but important improvements made, I was both impressed with, and grateful, for Jeebraj and Indu’s efforts
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More than a hundred Nepalese village participants from around this region converged on the host village to attend this course. Some were village chiefs, some were elders and youth leaders, and others were simply villagers eager to learn skills together as a community. Over the week, as we brought the twelve teams through the paces of servant leadership, my heart was just so filled with joy for them. Just before their finale mission exercise, I watched the participants don their bright red Taja Asa t-shirts. It was an awesome sight, to have this small sea of red shirts contrasted against the brown and green of the mountain environment. And, as they applied teamwork and underwent the different obstacles to help one another achieve the mission objectives, I was glad that we were leaving behind yet another critical mass of servant leaders in red shirts for this region
