SMD Closed Again! With COVID-19 on the rise in Kathmandu, the government has ordered all schools to close again and for all in person exams to be postponed. So we had to send all our children home, including the Grade 8s and 10s who were supposed to take their National Board exams in the coming weeks. As of April 28th, …
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SMD School is Open again!
Grades 5 to 10 are back at SMD! We’re thrilled to announce that schools in Nepal are allowed to operate again and SMD School is in the process of phasing in students by grade. We initially brought all our grade 10’s back into boarding (hostel). They went into a week of isolation and attended online classes from their rooms. Our …
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A Story of Karma supports SMD
A Story of Karma, a new book written by long time SMD School supporter Michael Schauch, sheds light on life for children in the Himalaya, and the important role of SMD School. In 2012, Michael Schauch and his wife, Chantal, undertook an expedition deep in the Himalaya of northern Nepal, into a remote valley that had been closed off to …
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Online & Village Classes Continue
Online & Village Classes in full Swing Our SMD School campus continues to be closed but our students (all but 11 who are too remote) have been able to still access education, either online or in the village classes in the mountains. SMD alumna Tsewang Dolma Lama immediately returned to Ripchet when she heard the children were begging for classes …
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COVID-19 Update – Sept. 2020
Schools across Nepal are still closed Across Nepal, schools have been closed for five months. Even though public schools are not offering any education, not even online, teachers are getting paid. Private schools were trying to offer online instruction, but the government didn’t allow them to charge tuition for it; so, staff didn’t get paid and classes had to stop. …
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COVID-19 Update – June 2020
Dear Friends of SMD School, Like all schools in Nepal, SMD School has been closed since March 27 and we sent all our children home to their villages where it is safer for them (speaking from a pandemic perspective). See SMD’s COVID-19 May update for more details. The National Board exams (aka Secondary Education Examinations or SEE’s) for Grade 10 …
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COVID-19 UPDATE – MAY 2020
Nepal is still in lockdown and for now, SMD School is closed until the Ministry of Education allows schools in Nepal to reopen. At the end of March, we had moved up our final exams so that many of our children were able to finish final exams. Following, we officially had to close the school on March 27th as Nepal’s …
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Thrangu Rinpoche gives Prayer
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche gives prayer and advice during the Coronavirus Pandemic (with English subtitles). Watch video on YouTube. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche gives prayer and advice during the Coronavirus Pandemic (with Chinese subtitles)
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SMD’ers Have Best Teeth in Nepal!
SMD School Students Have Best Teeth in Nepal! Global Dental Relief (GDR) began working in Nepal in 2001 when a small group of volunteers brought dental care to 450 children at the Shree Mangal Dvip School (SMD) in Kathmandu. Since then SMD has hosted 69 week-long clinics at the school, allowing GDR volunteers to treat tens of thousands of …
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Covid-19 Update from SMD School
Dear friends and supporters of SMD School near and far: We’d like to send you all a heartfelt Tashi Delek and a brief update on our situation at SMD in Kathmandu. We’re all fine at this stage. We closed SMD School to outsiders over two weeks ago and everyone coming inside (including nuns, monks, other day scholars and staff) have …
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New Song: Pray for the World
Ross Green of Music Seeds International has done it again! This is his third song-writing/recording project with SMD School students in Kathmandu, resulting in “Pray for the World,” just released in time for Losar (Tibetan New Year)! As usual, the students chose the topic and wrote the lyrics. Check out Thrangu Band perform their new song with Ross: Ross also …