Hello All,

Time for another GAHP adventure! We’re headed to Indonesia and Nepal this round. We leave tomorrow and return on May 12th. It should be fun. We start this trip on the heels of our success in Wyoming, hopefully it carries through.

In the meanwhile, I’m moving apartments (ugh) and the weekend after I get back I head to Seattle to teach, then back to work. It’s gonna be a busy month.

I hope you’re all well and enjoying the burgeoning of spring.

A lot of very exciting things have happened since GAHP’s pilot field trip to Bali, Indonesia nearly one year ago.
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Here are some action shots of the practitioners who came to Bali. Everyone took the GAHP continuing education classes, raised funds for their own airfare, solicited donations for supplies, and put in a whole-hearted effort to bring their compassionate care to the people of Bali:

Katie, Frank, Grainne

Julie

Matthew

Linda

Dan

Renata & Ann

Mimi

Jen

We are learning more background information to our situation. We have recieved great support from the Yayasan members. We have had amazing meetings with brilliant people, all trying to help us meet our mission. While this trip will not bring us back into the field, we are growing stronger as an organization. If we can succeed in our goals, we will become an even stronger presence here in Indonesia. I can’t say yet what the outcome will be, but we have great plans in place. Once the pieces settle, I will let you all know. We have another meeting scheduled for Christmas Day. More than half of our group will return to the US, myself included, in the next couple of days, depending on our ability to change airplane tickets.

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Back to Sanur for a lunch time meeting. An appeal is being made on our behalf by our yayasan. We are hopeful that we might be able to start up again. If we can, we will go out as one group and try to maximize our time. We are planning a day of re-organizing of supplies, and an afternoon of training for the practitioners to hone our model that we have been working out in the field.

So while we are here working on paperwork, I have a little time to write about the model we are using here in Bali as our treatment delivery. Which is a formal way of saying: how in the world can we treat 200+ people in a day effectively, compassionately and efficiently with 2-4 practitioners!

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Frank, Dan and I are holed up at Candidasa (pronounced Chandidasa) trying to figure our our options. It is the weekend so no paperwork can go through. We have been told that Jakarta is notoriously slow with such things and that our chances of expediting our paperwork through is slim. Team members are disappointed, but everyone understands that this kind of set-back comes with the territory of doing aid work in the developing world. If we are successful with the government’s request, then it will push our organization up to another level and allow us to have an even greater impact here in Indonesia. Still it’s hard not to think of all the villages that were waiting for us to come to treat.

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Half our bags got taken at the airport. Ugh. Hopefully we can either get them released in to Bali or get them back when we ar returning to the US.

We’ve hit a bit of a snag and had to halt operations to file a bit more paperwork. What we’ve done so far – the systems, paperwork, organization, team structures – has been extremely effective and is definitely a reproducible model. More info to follow.