Summer Term 2019 Comes To An End

As always, and for students the world over, term end was preceded by exam time.
As I write, we’re awaiting school reports and exam results.  We wish all our students success and reward for their, and their teachers’ hard work.

Time for fun days out

The summer has passed quickly and despite all the construction and community events, routine  day-to-day activities had to continue – play, laundry and sharing meals together Tibetan momo, a kind of dumpling are a firm favourite.

And even though the new shrine and teaching hall is not yet fully completed, it was wonderful seeing it put to good use for the first community event and teachings during the mani programme mid year.

A wonderful collaboration…

Wonderful news about our last sustainability fundraiser to support the apple tree project – thanks to all your generosity, we reached our target to help fund the much needed fencing for the orchard compound.  Thank-you all so very much for all your kind donations. 

It was a long and cold, hard winter which extended well into what would normally have been the warmer summer weather this year.  Many goats and yaks starved during the heavy and prolonged snows and unfortunately, being desperate for food, attacked the apple tree shoots.  Nevertheless a few trees have survived and thanks to the kind generosity of Italian supporters a new batch of trees are ready for shipping from Rome as soon logistics and forwarding agents can be instructed.

Hopefully with the new fencing in place, tree survival rates will improve this coming winter.

We must now turn our fundraising efforts towards our unsung heroes – our teachers who reliably and diligently get on with their teaching and student welfare duties despite the disruption of construction works and school improvements.  Without their dedication and care for our students we would have no school so we owe them our deep gratitude and respect.

Please, please help if you can to support our latest efforts to raise the funds to pay them a decent wage in 2020.  We need to raise £5,000 between now and year end so please be generous and help us by making a donation.  Any amount we raise over our target will contribute towards teacher training events later in the year.

All amounts will be gratefully received and remember we don’t take expenses from donations at all.  Apart from bank charges, which we can’t avoid, we’re 100% efficient in passing on donations to fund the school.

As with all our fundraising efforts, we can assure that all the money you can donate will get to the school.  Please help us if you can?

Here’s a link to our fundraiser.  Donations of any size will be greatly appreciated.  We are 100% efficient and don’t take expenses from donated monies so you can be assured your donations will support this project.

Please click here to help us pay our teachers a fair wage in 2020

Or, as always, donate via our website here

Heartfelt thanks for all your support, which is always greatly appreciated.