I watched as the three-person procession made its way towards the snack shop where we were eating lunch.
It stopped outside and after some quiet negotiations with the shop owner each person received a samosa and a drink of water; no money was exchanged. After a few moments they shuffled off again and disappeared from my sight. But the memory has stayed with me.
At the head of this strange procession was a barefooted toddler, probably no more than three years old, wearing only a tatty jumper several sizes too big.
At the back was a man wearing equally dirty and worn-out clothes and carrying a stick, which he held out for the person in the middle to hold. The man was blind.
Holding the line together was a young girl, probably about nine or ten. Guiding her father from the front with the stick and steering the toddler from behind, the girl negotiated both her charges up the steep bank outside the shop and off along the road.
As they ambled away I noticed that one of the legs of her threadbare trousers was ripped beyond repair.
I'm not sure why this particular scene should have stayed with me so vividly. It was only one of several images of heartbreaking poverty that I saw that day; that we see everyday.
As unsettling as it is, I hope that these types of images continue to upset me because I don't want to become immune to them.
In this land where just living is so hard for so many please pray for us that we don't become hardened to the needs but find meaningful ways to make a difference.
Alan Barker is a BMS worker in Surkhet in western Nepal with his wife Megan. The couple support the work of the International Nepal Fellowship (INF).
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