speech therapy and splinting for the patients who ohave been operated on. many of the patients are very poor, so, right from the beginning of my medical school, i had the feeling that we should be able to go out and provide the needed service to our poor people. >> reporter: dr. rai's program provides carefree of charge thanks to a california based nonprofit. and he has also teamed up with dr. shea from harvard and the affiliate hospital in boston, massachusetts, but he has always had a special connection to nep nepal. >> what brings me to nepal is the fact that i grew up here in the early childhood and my parents worked for a international aid organization called "save the children" and those early experienceses growing up here shaped me for the long term and brought me into medicine and eventually