Thanks to Eric, Mike, Chantal and Michael for having a group birthday party at Cuppa Joy's on West 4th and Alma in Vancouver to raise funds for SMD Boarding School. About 40 people showed up to watch the film, celebrate life with the group of filmmakers, and donate to help the school. Approximately $1700 was donated. You guys are great!!
Karma Chungda Lama from Nar will be going to SMD in May 2013. Hooray!
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Our Canadian volunteer has been working hard at SMD Boarding School since the middle of January.
Here's her latest report about gardening and a request for another volunteer to take over after she returns. THANK YOU, Renee!!
Greetings ... I am here for 5 1/2 more weeks but starting to make a plan
for the kids to continue with the gardening. We have set up 3 teams
that includes 2 captains and 5 helper (for each team). Each team waters
3 days in a row. Tsering Dhondup is the supervisor and i...
The showing of the movie by Climb For Change members Mike and Chantal and their friends, Eric and Michael, was sold out at Pacific Cinemateque on February 13. Great movie and very interested audience asking about SMD Boarding School and the movie after the screening. A number of people donated to SMD and received a CD of music created by Michael Averill who went on the trek to Nar / Phu and whose music was featured in the film. Thank you to everyone who donated and took information home. Th... Continue reading...
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Our garden is sprouting (have planted 50 pots so far plus planted coriander / cilantro in the pots on the 2nd floor about the medical clinic ... ( got permission to do this) and the compost is doing well, hot and smelling sweet. Have given up the idea of using red worms (can't find them and realized if the kids didn't feed them every day they would die). There are knitters everywhere at the school (even in the lunch room ... likely not the best... told them to keep it in their pocket) and no... Continue reading...
Renee from Vancouver says: Today we planted marigolds, snap dragons, marigolds and hollyhocks (from my Vancouver garden). It was fun ... the kids were very keen and listened carefully to what they needed to do. We even found some worms which we were careful not to damage. The pots are near the entrance to the school and there is not sun until the afternoon so hope they will grow.
Then we found a nursery that sold us organic soil and some compost so tomorrow we will start planting spinach, r... Continue reading...
Climb for Change's movie, Beyond the Gates of Phu, has officially made it into the finals at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMMF). It will play with two other Himalayan films during the Himalayan Night show on Feb 13th (see details and link below)
The Executive Director of the VIMFF has graciously agreed to have any net proceeds of the night go to SMD School.
Debra Ann Robinson, President of Himalayan Children's Fund US, and an SMD student, going to her second interview for a Leadership Competition. Debra Ann visits Nepal each year to support Rinpoche's projects and collect names and numbers of all the students, monks and nuns.
The Canadian volunteer who took the photo is guiding the older students and also investigating how to incorporate more food and flower gardening at SMD Boarding School to increase the nutrition and reduce food costs. She hope... Continue reading...
Many times visitors from Canada spend time with the children at SMD Boarding School. They take gifts sent by sponsors and donors to the kids and get tours of the school, nunnery or monasteries (in Kathmandu and Namo Buddha). One sponsor said, "Meeting Tsering Dolma was a highlight of our trip and we were super impressed with the school." Here are some comments from Molly who had the opportunity of chatting with the girl her group in Halifax sponsors at SMD and meeting some other students.
Dear All, Tashi Delek from Halifax, Canada!!! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with their family and friends. Well, I had a really good Christmas with my host family here. We had planked salmon. Besides I got lots of Christmas gifts.
Do you know what happened??? We(my host family and I) were opening our gifts as usual and I put my wrapper on the top of a small votive style candle that I didn't realize was lit! After a few minutes there was a fire. I screamed my lungs off , " Fire. F...
University of Minnesota donors helped to purchase a water filtration system for the new girls' dorm at SMD Boarding School. (This is mostly in Nepali but the visuals are very good. Shirley Blair adds some info at the end of the video) Continue reading...
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.
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.
