Here is email follow up from Masako (Bunny) Doi after escorting a little girl from the mountains of Nepal for medical treatment for scoliosis in New Jersey.   Check the response email as well as Bunny is indeed one or our “hero’s” 

Thanks to everyone in HTC for your confidence in me to escort children for Healing the Children.   I hope Kabita is adjusting to her new environment. We couldn’t do this without Rijen Shahi who took Kabita, her mother, and brother to meet me in Kathmandu.   I didn’t know that they didn’t have a consent letter for Kabita to travel without parents that we needed to for immigration in Nepal. He didn’t know what “notarize” meant, but he helped beyond his call of duty.   Discussing what to do that evening, Kabita’s facial expression was getting darker, thinking she was being rejected.   I made the decision to have her stay with me since they missed their bus and had to stay another night in Kathmandu.    I also could see that her mother was uncomfortable and worried about money.   The bus ride to Kathmandu for 3, lodging, food, and other expenses must have cost her a lot.    I assured her that she didn’t need to worry about money.

I think “life” works out in mysterious ways, and that there are reasons for everything.    Rijen talked to his boss  but the lawyer was hesitant to have his name on the paper as Kabita’s mother didn’t have anything to identify herself as Kabita’s mother…. but he saw we were working for a good cause and decided to help us.

I’m sure it was a life changing experience for Kabita’s mother as well.   This was her first time in a lawyer’s office to sign her name as she can’t write or read… and got her fingers printed.   We found a taxi to get them to the bus for their 18 hour bus ride home.  Later, we heard that they couldn’t believe that strangers would do this for them without asking anything in return. As taxi drove off, her mother cried and I cried too.     We couldn’t communicate by language, but I was certain that she trusted me that her child is safe with me.   I promised her that I will bring Kabita home to her.

And here we are… we made it.   I always knew we would.   I’m like a bulldog, I won’t let it go until I accomplish what I’m there for.  All of us worked together for Kabita to get to USA to have her surgery so that she can have healthy normal life.

This is indeed a life changing experience for Kabita, not just her health, but all the experience she will have in USA, kindness and love that she is receiving from people around her.

Thank you so much for giving me a wonderful and extraordinary experience again.
These experiences are my treasures.

Sincerely,
Bunny Doi