SMD Boarding School (Shree Mangal Dvip) is in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, near the great stupa.  Education helps poor children lift themselves out of poverty.

Nepal to You Purchase hand-crafted, fair-trade Nepali goods and help SMD and village children.

READ ABOUT THE STUDENTS OF NepaltoYou.com

After Grade 10 WHAT?   

The kids are growing up and leaving SMD's education system. Here is how the SENIORS are managing after they finish their prescribed studies.

Ongoing Education

The ‘Senior’ Programme

Thrangu Tara Abbey is a nunnery for girls and women in Swayambunath on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

In 1991, the first group of 17 nuns arrived from the province of Manang near the Tibetan border.  Now there are over 230 girls and women ...>>READ MORE  

The Thrangu Clinic (Menla-Thrangu Mentsi Khang)  (2 hours outside of Kathmandu at Namo Buddha) provides medical services to the villagers who live nearby. It has  free health care services and essential preventative health information and low-cost medicine...>>READ MORE

Thrangu Tashi Yangste Monastery  

Namo Buddha is 2 hours away from Kathmandu is a Buddhist holy site. Hundreds of monks study lower grades as well as higher Buddhist studies there.   

SMD Branch School "has more than 70 students and 12 monk teachers; it runs from first grade through ninth grade.  In addition to formal study, we are also concerned about taking care of the environment: Each week the members of the Thrangu Environment Club clean the monastery grounds." ...>>READ MORE 

Vajra Vidya Institute in Sarnath near Varanasi, India, was finished in the fall of 1999. An institute of Buddhist studies, the university is currently training more than 70 ordained monks and nuns in Buddhist Philosophy in general and in the teachings of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in particular so that they may become Buddhist teachers. 

They are following the five-year program with the resident Khenpos (accredited teachers) under the guidance of Rinpoche.   >>READ MORE