Real estate agents Leigh Buchan and Diane Ellis were having a beer one night and discussing the speaker they’d heard that day. He had asked them to consider the 100 things they wanted to do before they die. Ellis mentioned she wanted to go to Tibet or Africa; Buchan, who has a background in church mission work, concurred, and by the end of the evening the two ambitious women had a trip to a Tibetan village all planned.

Wanting to do more than just visit, they contacted a man Buchan knows who does development work in a remote area there and asked if there was a project that needed to be done . . . More