{"id":4886,"date":"2015-03-17T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:07:05","slug":"heart-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/heart-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have more or less been a bleeding heart most of my life! And I have become worse since the ordeal in Qatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to matters related to humanitarian work, quite often, I make decisions without thinking; I let my heart — my feelings and emotions — make quick and even rash decisions without waiting for all the necessary information, or without thinking through and weighing in all the implications and ramifications of the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to Nepal and running COMMITTED<\/a> with my buddy Jayjeev<\/a>, and devoting my time to improving access to, and quality of, education of vulnerable children<\/a> in the country, for instance, means that I learn about Nepalese children suffering for one reason or another, regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their plight, their stories, especially those of the marginalized and the poor<\/a>, are heart-wrenching<\/a>. Many such stories other people relay to me. Many I discover myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most I feel powerless to do anything about. But some, moved by them, I act on immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acting on them has generally involved finding funding for their education. For one because people share stories with me hoping that I would do just that. For another because that’s what I am able to do most easily and readily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all started with raising scholarship funds for Raithane School<\/a> and Taltuleshwori School<\/a> children, expanding COMMITED’s sponsorship<\/a> program. I would raise funds from friends individually. I would convince friends such as Michael (and his friend Elia) to raise funds on our behalf (which they ultimately did for the Nemira-COMMITTED SSP<\/a> program through their business<\/a>). I agreed to raise the necessary funds for Bishnu and her siblings’<\/a> education following my bleeding heart way back in October 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hold my bleeding heart responsible for fund-raising part of Prakriti’s<\/a> educational expenses after hearing her story of struggle and suffering (and drive) last August. About a year ago, at the end of UWC-scholar selection process, I ran a fundraising drive for Iju<\/a> mainly also following my bleeding heart, but also knowing how it could change the young girl’s life and the lives of children in her community<\/a>. For the same reason, this year I have initiated a fundraising drive<\/a> to aid five Nepalese UWC scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure, I haven’t acted on every child’s story I have discovered! Neither have I acted on every child’s story different people have shared with me, of which there have been many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People keep reminding me that with just a little help from me (by fundraising) — or from COMMITTED — for their education, their life will change. And it’s tough NOT falling for that. I am sure there are many out there who know the transformational power of education. I am one of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s more, there are those whose stories my heart took to and responded to immediately or pretty soon after but later have wondered about. In some instances at a later date, I have wondered — or discovered? — if I might have made a mistake in doing so…for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, a while ago, I decided NOT to give in to my bleeding heart so readily. I’ll continue to not give in until we at COMMITTED have designed a more comprehensive model of our sponsorship program<\/a>. So far our program has worked sufficiently, but it could be better, it could be improved upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mean time, I am on the hunt for a patch for my bleeding heart…and we at COMMITTED a patch for the sufferings of children we serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And only money isn’t going to cut it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What matters the most? And with matters of the heart, sometimes tough decisions have to be made as difficult as it might be for it to accept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[160,37],"tags":[225,136,203,182],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-personal-stories","category-projects","tag-nemira","tag-raithane-school","tag-taltuleshwori-school","tag-uwc-scholarships"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Raithane-Friday-Quiz-0016.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-1gO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29865,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/29865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}