I spent my Saturday afternoon joined by four like-minded individuals (our goodwill ambassadors) to help the Bhutan Stroke Foundation achieve its goal of raising the Nu. 4 million Endowment Fund by October 2024. This is required by a recent government directive to all the CSOs in the country. If the goal is not achieved the foundation might have to close. But closing is absolutely not an option for now. On the other hand, I suggested to BSF to take this new requirement as an opportunity to work towards the sustainability of the foundation.

We must let this foundation continue their work. This is because everyday, there are several cases of our own people getting hit by brain stroke – of different magnitude – somewhere in the country. While stroke is terrible for just anybody, for the less affluent section of the population it is a huge burden on the family – financially as well as in terms of after-stroke care. One person who is recovering confided to me that seeing his wife struggle taking care of him, he wished many times that the stroke should have actually killed him instantly. How sad can one be to wish for one’s own death?

The Bhutan Stroke Foundation takes care of such people. True, we have a free medical service in the country but stroke leaves behind different types of devastation and aftermath, some of which are unthinkable, and for which the State and our medical system cannot attend to every such case. This is where NGOs and citizens can come together and help. Hence, I would like to invite all my friends to make your donations – no matter how humble, and indicate it to the secretariat that it is the Endowment Fund. I also have one additional request, and that is when you send your donation send it with a prayer that it helps as many sentient beings while also wishing that no one in your family or circle of friends get hit by such a malicious condition.

(By the way, I have made my donation to the Fund when I accepted to become a board member. My grandson’s birthday is coming up soon and I will be making another donation in his name (we always donate instead of celebrating birthdays), and for the good health and happiness of my family – and my large tribe – with a moelam that no human being go through such a terrible malice)

For more info:
Dawa Tshering 1762 5956. https://bhutanstrokefoundation.org/
Location of BSF Office https://maps.app.goo.gl/erCwADEdem8LYrqE6

For donation:
BOB account number 202975547
BNB account number 5100129905001
BDBL account number 101023971601

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