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January 2012 Report from Lhi School (Himalayan Teachers Project)

Posted by Vajra Vidya Foundation on Sunday, January 29, 2012, In : SMD Boarding School 

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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Update on Lhi School, Himalayan Teachers Project

Posted by Vajra Vidya Foundation on Saturday, October 29, 2011, In : SMD Boarding School 
Jodi and Phil Tweet and Noel Aylett of Hope Alliance went up to Lhi, Nubri, Nepal to take school supplies, to paint and to love to the kids and families.  They made the most AMAZING video of their 10-hour bus ride and 5-day trek into the high Himalayan Mountains. Thank you, Jodi, Phil, Noel and SMDers for all your efforts to help the forgotten children.

FROM THE HOPE ALLIANCE WEBSITE:
Lhi School - Nubri Village
Lhi is a very remote village situated in the Nubri valley of north-western Nepal, whi...
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London, Ontario, SMD event a success!!

Posted by Vajra Vidya Foundation on Monday, January 31, 2011, In : Events 
Thank you to Eileen Parker and Mary Lou Greenwood and everyone from their group
in London, Ontario, for making Shirley Blair's presentation a rousing success.
She presented slides at the Church of St. Jude and
at London Hunt and Country Club


They raised over $7200 for Vajra Vidya Foundation.

The event was to support the effort to train graduates of SMD Boarding School to get teacher-training
and then to return to their remote villages to set up and operate schools.
  
VAJRA VIDYA FOUNDATION  has...

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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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