BSF Staff Videos: Leena

BSF staff have set forth to create a video series in order to emotionally connect with and update the sponsors, friends, partners, and all the well-wishers of BSF. During COVID-19, we want to show how fortitude, hope, love, concern, empathy, knowledge, care, and kindness can help us this crisis bravely and wisely.

— Leena Satyal

Leena with her family

Leena, BSF’s Executive Director, is the main liaison to Mitrata staff and has weekly meetings with Christine. Leena continues to oversee the Contact Center program and works closely with the children, their families, the schools and their doctors to ensure the health and well-being of each child. 

“Namaste. I’m Leena Satyal, Executive Director at BSF. Today I would just like to briefly talk about the measures we are taking at BSF to handle the current COVID-19 pandemic. First of all, BSF, Mitrata, we all feel like we belong to our bigger family. So, first of all, what we are trying to do at this hour is connect with all of our kids, their families, how their mental state is, what their physical state is and how we can help them cope with the current situation and how we can help them get access to food because the kids rely heavily on us for their daily meals so that has been a challenge since we have been  under lockdown for more than two weeks now. But with dedicated staff and good connections, we have been able to manage some of that for our kids, and we hope to do more in the future. While connecting with the kids, they are actively getting engaged in lots of creative works: cooking, cleaning, artwork, studying for their exams. So, we are happy that most of our kids are taking this very positively and trying to cope with the current situation. As for our staff, we have regular meetings and updates we share amongst each other, so that’s very helpful. Personally, I’ve taken this opportunity to connect more with my family as well: with my mom, with my kids. We cook different dishes, we experiment with food, we’ve tried connecting with each other, we’ve talked to each other, we play games, and we’ve tried to get involved as much as possible so we can share this moment even though we are under a lockdown. And we here are all thinking about Mitrata and all of the sponsors and everybody involved because you guys are doing great work trying to help whatever way is possible when you yourself are going through such chaos in life. So our blessings and good wishes are always with you and hope that we’ll overcome this situation and come out in the end stronger and healthier. Thank you!”