The Jungle Jamboree has come about due to a good deed done by a young Nepalese boy nearly two decades ago.

In the mid-1980s, 14-year-old Hari Bhandary gave a helping hand to a couple from Bristol - unwittingly setting off a train of events which led to new health and hope for his isolated village.

Beryl and Peter Shore were backpacking in Nepal when they were forced to a halt by a fast-flowing river. Hari saw their plight and gave them food and shelter for the night before putting them on a coach to their destination. He refused their offers of money, saying he was a Boy Scout and it was 'just his good deed for the day'.

The Shores, also members of the Scouting movement, were so impressed that they told their son Kevin about Hari and his 20,000-strong community of Meghauli, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital.

Kevin, now Group Scout Leader of the 47th Plymouth, and a