Good news!
Five year old Kancha Mukha is coming into our boarding programme in November, along with 60 other children. They have been waiting since the start of the pandemic. Since most have had no schooling at all, they need in-person classes, but our other students have basic skills and are able to cope with online classes. Also coming back into school will be the students who missed everything because they were too far away. We will do our best to help them catch up. Our school aged monks will continue stay at SMD and the nuns will continue their classes at Thrangu Tara Abbey.
The school will be strictly quarantined. All adults will be vaccinated. To keep the children as safe as possible, we will set up hand-washing stations at every doorway, masks will be worn in the daytime, and ventilating will happen inside and outside of the dorm.
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Lisa Elser – Custom Cut Gems will match dollar for dollar up to $10,000 USD
• Our new children need uniforms, play clothes, linen, and winter quilts.
• The dorms need a fresh coat of paint.
• For COVID-19 safety: hand-washing stations at each door, masks and sanitizer.
Donate through one of our nonprofits: I want to help the new kids
Questions?
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Lama Lhakpa Dorje, front row, second from the left is in charge of Hinang Thrangu Tashi Choephel Ling Monastery.
New Seniors have already started their year of service
SMD graduates who have volunteered to give service this year have already taken up their posts. Tsering Samten B709, Dawa Sangmo B11.2 and Sonam Choden B11.16a (pictured on the left) are at Thrangu Hinang Monastery in Gorkha District. The girls work hard, teaching the youngs monks, bathing them and doing their laundry. Our SMDers become ‘mums’ for their young students.
Pictured on the right, outgoing ’Seniors’ Urgen Tsomo D12.18 and Tashi Sangmo B910 have returned to Kathmandu, Urgen is in Grade 11, aiming at studying Law. Tashi Sangmo will be starting three years of study to become a Health Assistant so she can run a health post in the mountains.
Acharya Norbu Sherpa NBF (L) and Dr. Ghana Gurung WWF (R).
Beyul the Sacred Hidden Valleys
The Nepal Buddhist Federation and WWF Nepal signed an MOU to work together for the next five years. Conservation is built into Buddhist culture. Learn more – Video
Some of our day students from Tek Chok Ling Nunnery.
Tek Chok Ling Nunnery’s nuns
In Case You Missed It …
Nepal is open: Nepal has resumed on-arrival visa services for foreign nationals
15 Days – 30 USD
30 Days – 50 USD
90 Days – 125 USD
More details – immigration.gov.np/page/
No outgoing mail: The Nepal Postal System cannot handle outgoing mail. Incoming mail is ok. Please remember to use children’s admission numbers in all correspondence — it really helps us.
Video: Spend a day at SMD – Watch on Youtube