September 20, 2011  from Shirley Blair, Director of SMD Boarding School, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dear friends,
On September 18th, a 6.9 earthquake hit Kathmandu. Although there were some fatalities in the Kathmandu Valley, all of Thrangu Rinpoche’s nuns, monks and lay children were unhurt, and the building sustained no visible damage. At SMD Boarding School, thanks to years of emergency drills, the buildings were evacuated smoothly. The children spent the night in the monsoon rain sleeping on the so...
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Hey, take a look at the SMD School Clinic's website.
http://www.smdclinic.org/

The clinic does such wonderful work keeping all the kids, staff, monks and nuns healthy and educated about good health practices.
Wangchuk Rapten is the driving force behind the clinic.  Great job, Wangchuk!!

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Matthew Gindin and Victoria Rohac, Canadian acupuncturists, are heading to Thrangu Rinpoche's Menla Clinic in Namo Buddha in November 2011 to volunteer for two months.

Menla Medical Clinic services a wide mountainous area and is open three days a week providing medical treatment to the monks of Namo Buddha as well as poor villagers who come four hours on foot.  Acupuncture is one of the treatments in high demand but needles and other supplies are diff...

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