Tashi Delek, Happy Losar Year of the Female Earth Pig

At the beginning of a New Year, as in many traditions. people often reflect on what the past year has brought as well as looking forwards to the new year about to begin.

It has been a very busy and successful year for ALTEVETTE Project.  We are so grateful to all our friends and supporters that have helped us in many ways during the year by spreading the word to raise awareness, donating warm clothing, supporting our fundraising appeals, sponsoring a student in school, organising fundraising events and so on.  Without you all, we couldn’t have been as successful in helping girls from remote and impoverished areas have access to an education.  a big heartfelt THANK YOU to you all.

We raised enough funds to build much needed new toilet block at the school in Upper Mustang, we have donated enough to fund all 9 teachers’ salaries throughout 2019, and support 10 girls in school – all their accommodation & food, clothing, school materials, healthcare etc needs.

This has far exceeded our expectations in the first year of being registered here in the UK.

Again a huge THANK-YOU to everyone that has encouraged and supported us in this effort during 2019.  We hope you will be inspired to support us again this coming year.

Looking forwards towards the coming year, we will work hard to achieve this level of support once more for the school.

Other possible projects in the pipeline include the funding of further Teacher Training later in the year and also the possible provision of providing IT and computer skills training to our students.

As of now, the girls have no access to internet or computers and it’s clear this skill will be vital for their education in future years.

Other projects are also in discussion and we’ll give more details of these as the year progresses.

At the moment we have no more girls available for sponsorship.  Possibly more will arrive at the beginning of summer term in April.

If you would like help support us with a regular sponsorship donation (monthly, annually, as you wish) – please consider helping to donate towards the cost ofSUPPORTING OUR DEAR TEACHERS. 

We all know that without teachers there will be no school.

Our students are doing very well and are receiving a high standard of education compared to other schools in the area.

The school achieved an outstanding result of 2 girls graduating class 8 after only 6 years in school.  And achieved first place in an inter-school regional competition for tri-lingual public speaking (Tibetan, Nepalese and English) where students presented their own work to other school students and a panel of judges.

Students in western school 5th year would be around 10 years old.  I wonder how many of our young students could reach this standard in 3 languages?   With few material resources, our teachers and students achieve really impressive standards.