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Our
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Several years ago we discovered a common passion with our neighbors, the Olsen’s, and started a hiking group. We did local hikes like the Zion Narrows, The Subway, Mt. Timpanogos, Mt. Nebo and many others. This love for hiking soon spread. We started reading books about the Himalayas, Mt. Everest, and the Serpa and Tibetan peoples. As our passion grew, destiny leads us to other people with cultural interest in the area. Through Darrel and Marla Weaver we met Janling Norgay and others who live in Nepal. Being parents ourselves, we were heartbroken by the stories of parents who could not feed their children so they send them off the mountain to the city. Many times these children are captured and put into prostitution, slavery, or other difficult circumstances. We longed to do something to make a difference. Then the opportunity fell into place for us to go to Nepal to hike.
We felt in our heart that we were so blessed to have this opportunity
but that while we were over there we might have a opportunity to
do something even more meaningful than hike. We met up with Adrian
Burgess from Camp5 Expeditions who said he would help us if we truly
wanted to do a humanitarian effort to help the people of Nepal.
This passion has grown to the point we are at now. Our Credentials
Richard Christiansen is presently the CEO of OurFamily.com. He graduated from BYU with an undergraduate in Electronic Engineering Technology and he received his MBA at BYU. Richard has been the USA General Manager for Mitsubishi Electric’s PC Division as well as General Manager of CareerWebSource, Product Line Manager at Novell, and Vice President of Engineering at MyJobSearch.com. Gaye Christiansen
received a Bachelors of Nursing at Brigham Young University. She
has worked with children and adolescents in crisis and has had over
a decade of experience as a home health nurse. She and Rich are
the parents of four young boys. Gaye is active in their school and
is the Spanish Fork Council PTA President. |
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