Nishtha Project In all we spent 6 weeks in Rakkar a small village just southeast of Dharamsala, in the rather chilly northern state of Himachal Pradesh, volunteering at Nishtha - a rural health, education and environment centre Check out www.nishtha-hp.org It was set up some 20 years ago by Dr.Barbara Nath-Wiser, now Nishtha's manager, a general practitioner from Vienna, Austria who has been living in the area since 1984. The health centre is dedicated to the memory of her late husband Krishan Nath Baba, who was a respected spiritual personality in the area and was very concerned about the well-being of the local people. Their primary aim is to provide a health clinic for some ten thousand people, this is free to the poor, of minimum cost to the 'middle-class' and plays a central role in
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