A milestone: The first Back to Life hospital
Back to Life completes the first hospital in the association’s history – a network of 19 birthing centers and a mother and child hospital is created. In August 2022, Back to Life received approval for a major project that had never been seen before in our history: the construction and establishment of a mother and […]
The first heart clinic in Karnali
The FirstHeart Clinicin Karnali Die erste Herzklinik in Karnali A lifesaver for countless affected: Back to Life establishes a cardiology department in the provincial hospital of Karnali. Die Rettung für unzählige Betroffene: Back to Life richtet eine kardiologische Abteilung im Provinzkrankenhaus von Karnali ein. Our Heartfelt Concern Unsere Herzensangelegenheit The Inauguration The Immense Need for […]
Home at last!
Finally Home! The deaf children of Mugu now live in their new school dormitory. For 17 deaf girls and boys in the remote region of Mugu, it was the beginning of a new life: In June 2022, they moved happily into the recently completed dormitory. With the new building in Gamgadhi, Back to Life not […]
Killer in the Kitchen
When our immediate neighbors light their backyard wood burning firepit to enjoy cool Ohio autumn evenings with a sip of wine and good company, I sequester myself in the house with windows shut to prevent a coughing fit that I will inevitably have from inhaling firewood smoke. Of course, when our neighbors invite us to join them, I apologetically decline their invitation because I do not want to ruin their peaceful social evening with my incessant cough [...]
Birthcenters for Mugu Nepal
Stella Deetjen tells the story of Sushila, who made building birth centres Back to Life's core mission. Without this encounter we would probably not have built our 15 birth centres.
Goodbye, Mugu – the new life of Khushi
Children's laughter echoes through the small room. Amma is heating a large pot filled to the brim with oil over an open fire. Her youngest daughter Khushi, still a toddler of one and a half years who has only recently learned to walk, frolics exuberantly around her mother with her siblings [...]
