Elsie James
Following a Banking career spanning 30 years, Elsie took early retirement in July, 1995, with plans to enjoy a life filled with Family activities, travel and spending time in the great outdoors. However, before that first retirement year ended, life had taken an unexpected turn from Adventure Travel to what would become a whole new career of Humanitarian Service Project Management in the tiny Himalayan country of Nepal. In January 1996, she joined a Calgary based Charity, Partnership Canada and by March was back in Nepal preparing a baseline study for a submission to CIDA for funding. By
August, she and her husband were living in Kathmandu, with Elsie appointed Country Manager and leading Partnership’s expanded programs in Nepal until completion in 2000. In love with the Country and the people, Elsie continued to support and manage village programs, with the help of Family, Friends and Donors for the next seven years under the independent banner of “Willing Hands Around the Globe”. In the Fall of 2007, following a presentation to the Board of Directors of Medical Mercy Canada Society, the decision was made to adopt the Nepal based programs under Medical Mercy Canada’s
charitable wing, where they have flourished and grown in numbers ever since. A once-in-a-lifetime trip to Nepal in 1995 became a twenty-four year long commitment to the country and her people. Elsie changes her position at the end of August bringing her years of experience to serve on Medical Mercy Canada’s, Advisory Committee.
August, she and her husband were living in Kathmandu, with Elsie appointed Country Manager and leading Partnership’s expanded programs in Nepal until completion in 2000. In love with the Country and the people, Elsie continued to support and manage village programs, with the help of Family, Friends and Donors for the next seven years under the independent banner of “Willing Hands Around the Globe”. In the Fall of 2007, following a presentation to the Board of Directors of Medical Mercy Canada Society, the decision was made to adopt the Nepal based programs under Medical Mercy Canada’s
charitable wing, where they have flourished and grown in numbers ever since. A once-in-a-lifetime trip to Nepal in 1995 became a twenty-four year long commitment to the country and her people. Elsie changes her position at the end of August bringing her years of experience to serve on Medical Mercy Canada’s, Advisory Committee.