Name of Lecture: …Introduction to HIHT and HIHT University

Name of Speaker: …Ms B. Maithili   

Program Time: …915-945am

Name of Reporter: …Klara Gerrits

Main Points of the Lecture: ....

Dr Maithili, a direct disciple of Swami Rama and Director of the Rural Development Institute (RDI), shared some of her experiences with Swami Rama. She explained about the organization of the Himalayan Institute, which not only comprises the hospital but also the HIHT University, a Nursing College, a Rural Development and a Cancer Institute which is currently under construction. As director of the Rural Development Institute she went into more detail about the working areas of RDI. RDI serves about 1000 villages in remote areas, offering them: education (including technical and vocational training with scholarship-possibilities), health, livelihood, water and sanitation, and health services. The audience had the privilege of being the first audience to whom the new documentary on the evolution of HIHT from 1992 on to the present was shown. The documentary shared the vision and mission of Swami Rama for HIHT Hospital in his own words.