Snehalaya reunites Nepali man with parents

MANGALURU: When Manoj Khadka, 34, didn’t return home in Hetauda, a town in Makwanpur district of Narayani zone in southern Nepal, over three years ago, his parents Lakshman and Kamala were a bit perturbed about the absence of their second among five children.
But when days turned to weeks, months and years, and there was no information about Manoj’s whereabouts, the family literally gave him up for dead.But that was not the case.
Found wandering on the roads near Mangaladevi Temple here by brothers Rithesh and Ganesh, Manoj soon found himself at Snehalaya Psycho Social Rehabilitation Centre, at Pavoor in Manjeshwar, three months ago. Painstaking efforts by executive director and managing trustee Joseph Crasta and his staff in treating Manoj, and luck played a part in Manoj finally getting rehabilitated with his family in Nepal.