Chitwan Wheelchair Warehouse

We went to Chitwan to clean up a warehouse in preparation for receiving and storing nearly 1,000 wheelchairs. This is a picture of what the warehouse looked like when we started. When we finished it looked like a warehouse with bare concrete floors and was relatively clean. It took three workers all day to clean it out.

 

This is the entrance to the warehouse.

We went to lunch at a local restaurant with our NGO partners. There was a green parrot walking around on the floor. The parrot liked it if you gave it rice. I discovered that it liked rice with some curry sauce more than plain rice

 

This is a picture of two of the trucks delivering the wheelchairs. These trucks are about 3-ton, TATA brand, trucks that are built like tanks. They travel throughout Nepal and have to be very rugged.

Next door to the warehouse is the home of owner of the warehouse and adjoining property.  

Near the warehouse is a statue of a rhinoceros. Chitwan is the location a famous national park. In the park you can get a close-up view of an Asian rhinoceros. It is a very rare and endangered species.

This is a picture of Lear with a little girl named Laxmi. Laxmi lives in a small house adjoining the warehouse. Her house looks much like the warehouse. Her father makes a living hauling freight with a modified bicycle like the one pictured below. 

To get the wheelchairs from the road into the warehouse the unloading team used a modified bicycle shown in this picture.  This is like the one that Laxmi's father uses to make his living.