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Edmonton Fundraiser for SMD Boarding School and VVF

March 29, 2012

Back Over the Mountains: A Fundraiser and Silent Auction at the Blue Chair Cafe was a great success! Thanks to all who attended, donated, and are now part of this journey. And thanks to Jane Marshall and her son Benjamin for caring for the children of Shree Mangal Dvip Boarding School.

 
Watch Jane Marshall's video of Nepal and the event in Edmonton on her YouTube page.

http://youtu.be/gHJ3VwPv8Ns


Jane says, "A movie about my March 1st Fundraiser at the Blue Chair Cafe. Funds raised help support Shree Mangal Dvip Boarding School in Kathmandu, Nepal, and will help me complete my book about Edmonton's only Tibetan Buddhist monk and our adventures together."
 

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SMD Director's Canada visit

March 26, 2012

Shirley Blair, director of SMD Boarding School in Nepal, met twice with interested people in Vancouver, showing her new slide show of the school and updating everyone on life at SMD.
Two supporters opened their home for a private presentation to 30 friends. A wonderful dinner was offered followed by the slide show and Q&A.  Many questions about plans to move the school to a safer, cleaner location and about life for SMDers after graduation were answered.   Look for the full update in the next ...
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SMD School Director visits Vancouver***

February 22, 2012
Join Us in Vancouver!!

*Shirley Blair, Director of SMD Boarding School is in Vancouver this week!!

Please join us    
10:00 AM    THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
The Terraces
1570    7 Avenue West  
Vancouver, BC
(604) 738-8380
We will meet for a slide presentation of SMD Boarding School in the theatre at The Terraces.
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Losar Greetings (Tibetan New Year)

February 15, 2012
Dear Friends of Vajra Vidya Foundation,

This is the time of the new year in the Tibetan lunar calendar.  This is the Year of the Water Dragon.  It is a time of renewal and celebration.

"The Losar Festival in Tibet is the biggest event in the year. Celebrated with great fervour the event is filled with age old ceremonies that commemorate the struggle between good and evil. The Tibetan people come out on the streets and chant, pass fire torches, dance and sing - a time for general merriment e...
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Only two weeks until the Edmonton fundraiser

February 13, 2012

Jane Marshall's update.

Just over two weeks until Back Over the Mountains: A Fundraiser and Silent Auction. 

Please join us! You can purchase tickets by clicking HERE.

In this week's update, I'd like to share some information about Shree Mangal Dvip Boarding School, where half your donations from our special evening will go. I was able to visit the school in 2009 and have written several articles about it:

The Fragile Walls of Learning. The Edmonton Journal, August 2008.
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January 2012 Report from Lhi School (Himalayan Teachers Project)

January 29, 2012

ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE IN THE LHI VILLAGE SCHOOL
It's been six months that I’ve been teaching in Lhi village school. Within those days I felt very glad to help my own community and I never felt any regrets about taking a Gap year to give service.

I didn't get any language problems during my teaching and when I started to work in the school I thought that there would be someone to manage us but later on I came to know that there is no one, and everything we do we must fix by ourselves. So I reall...
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Thanks to all our monthly donors!!!

January 27, 2012
We want to extend a sincere THANK YOU!!! to all our generous monthly donors.  Donating through CanadaHelps regularly keeps funds coming in on a regular basis which help us to plan better for the needs of the children in Nepal.  Even a small monthly amount of $10 can make a big difference in the lives of the kids under our umbrella.

It's easy to set up a monthly account on CanadaHelps and designate the child you are sponsoring or a special project you want to support, such as solar batteries, d...
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Volunteer teaches art at SMD Boarding School

January 25, 2012
Harika: a Heart's Home
My goodness, what can I possibly say about my experience at Shree Mangal Dvip that could adequately capture what I felt and feel inside? I felt welcomed. I felt loved and appreciated. I felt a kindness that seems to be harder and harder to find these days. There's a light inside the students of SMD— an insatiable curiosity, a positivity and compassion, and it moved me. I feel changed somehow.

Shree Mangal Dvip is a school founded by The Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche...
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Happy Year of the Dragon!!

January 23, 2012

To all our precious donors and sponsors and friends.  
Happy Year of the Dragon.
May peace fill your hearts and our world.


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SMD Volunteer's Article in Nepal Newspaper

January 15, 2012

Once is never enough Samantha Zaza  Kathmandu Post January 13, 2012


Sometime during this wet summer, when I was asked what I loved most about Nepal, the answer leaped from my lips without hesitation—the people. It was my second mo...
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Vajra Vidya Foundation VVF is Thrangu Rinpoche's Canadian foundation. Vajra Vidya Foundation is the fundraising organization for Namo Buddha Foundation, a registered Canadian charitable organization founded by Thrangu Rinpoche to undertake charitable projects.
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