The agency that I had donated my share (- http://www.alliancenepal.org/Emergency%20Call.htm ) has been in touch with Mukesh's case. Here is an email message from Anil. ----- Original Message ----- From: Anil Shahi To: nepaldemocracy@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:44 PM Subject: [ND] Re: To fund or not to fund Mukesh's case was forwarded to us (Alliance) by Lucia de Vries, a free lance journalist, soon after he was admited to Bir Hospital, long before it hit the news. We had even mentioned the case as potential recipient of the funds collected by the Alliance during our fund-raising drive. However, about a couple of weeks ago Lucia got back to me saying she is confident that the government or the MaHa fund would look after him, so asked us to hold up on sending the money for him. Now that the case has surfaced in the news, I have already sent another email to her and Fr. Gregory Sharkey in Kathmandu. I have asked Fr. Sharkey, who has already received US $1000.00 from our funds to treat a bullet injury victim at Kanti Children's hospital, to transfer the excess amount to Lucia, or to another reliable channel, to be given to Mukesh's parents. We have also promised Lucia that we'll send more money if needed. Anil. ___