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✨ Volunteer Spotlight: Gemma Beck ✨

Nov 5, 2025 – Jan 5, 2026

From a young age, Gemma felt drawn toward plants and medicine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in botany and spent many hours in medicinal gardens and greenhouses, developing an appreciation for the natural world. She also worked at an upscale vegan restaurant in Minnesota, where she saw how those plants become nourishment. Discovering Chinese herbal medicine later felt like “the path I had been searching for my entire life had opened up to me.”

She applied to this program because “serving others has always been one of the truest sources of nourishment for me.” As a new practitioner, she wanted to be useful, challenged, humbled, and transformed.

In our clinic, Gemma works closely with Clinic Director Sushila Gurung and Clinic Manager Satyamohan Dangol, whose home she describes as profoundly welcoming. She and Lead Acupuncturist Sanita Gopali work side by side each day, blending what Gemma learned in school with Sanita’s expertise in Nepali culture and rural primary care.

“Being here has accelerated my growth in ways I didn’t expect,” she says. Living with a Nepali family has softened homesickness: “To be welcomed so generously by a family who had never met me yet embraced me as their own has touched me deeply.”
Her understanding of limited resources has shifted, especially how something as simple as a road shapes healthcare access. Preventative screenings now feel essential: “A weekly blood pressure check might be the difference between life continuing normally or life being forever altered.”

One moment that stays with her is running into a patient outside the clinic and sharing a warm, joyful conversation despite barely sharing a common language. “The connection was effortless. It reminded me that care lives far beyond words; it lives in presence, sincerity, and the willingness to meet another human being exactly where they are.”

“Being here has clarified what truly matters—how I want to show up for my patients, for the people I love, and for myself.”

📸 @andrew.schlabach

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✨ Butter Lamp Puja at Daman✨

Yesterday our ARP/GHN team traveled to Daman to honor 10 years of continuous service in Bajrabarahi: a decade of community partnership, rural primary care, and shared learning between local Nepali healthcare leaders and foreign visitors.

From Daman, a short hike took us to Rikheshwor Temple, a sacred hilltop shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva. Beside the temple is Chumik Changchup, a holy spring said to have emerged from Shiva’s grief and devotion. People come here seeking clarity and renewal, a fitting place to reflect on the work that has shaped us over the years.

At the temple, we offered a 108-butter-lamp puja, a traditional blessing for insight, protection, and the path ahead. Lighting lamps together felt like a quiet prayer for the decade to come: for our patients, our Nepali team, our volunteers, and the community that continues to welcome us with such generosity.

What made the day especially meaningful was being there together: our Nepali leadership, long-time staff, and current volunteers.

📸 Carousel 
1 — Butter lamps beginning the puja 
2 — Our littlest community member
 3 — Sushila Waiba (senior interpreter) offering incense
 4 — Andrew Schlabach (ARP president) & Satyamohan Dangol (GHN Clinic manager, acupuncturist) lighting lamps 
5 — Andrew, volunteer Gemma Beck (acupuncturist, USA), Satyamohan & Sakali (“Didi,” our chef) 
6 — Sanita Gopali (lead acupuncturist) & Sakali  
7 — Sanita & volunteer Lindsay Drescher (acupuncturist, Canada)
 8 — Sushila Gurung (GHN clinic director, acupuncturist), Satyamohan, and their daughter

🙏 Thank you to everyone, near and far, who has supported this work, not only in Bajrabarahi, but across 18 years in Nepal. Here’s to the decade behind us and to the one we are stepping into with clarity and open hands.

📸 @andrewschlabach

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Quick summer post, I actually kind of think Oregon gets kind of a bad rep. In my opinion it’s a top five state because of its natural beauty as well as the culture that surrounds its larger city’s. Hope everyone had a good summer, god bless 🙏

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I feel like Oregon is a really weird fever dream that I never really want to wake up from. This is probably one of the best experiences I’ve had traveling. Oregon really is a group of loving and caring people and I can’t wait to go back.

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Late night tomato roasting for the eggplant & tomato Focaccia Sammy 🔥

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bushwackin' bbz 🍁

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These boots were made for explorin' and that's just what they'll do!
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Hangin in BV with the Minnesota crew! SYICK 🌊☀️

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@gemm_stone I love you soooooo much ♡♡♡ I'm so happy to have reconnected with you this summer after all these years 🌈🧡💜🦊💫

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$∆ It's crazy to think one place has brought us all together.. 2018 has been such an amazing year for me and I have you all to thank I couldn't be more grateful \ / #Figandfarro$

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