SMDers To The Rescue
The school year started with 70 unsponsored boarders. We put out a call to all our SMD graduates who are overseas, asking for help. These heroes jumped up!
Dawa Dolma Sherpa and her sister Sherab Dolma sponsored a little Sherpa girl (SMD’s blind choice). It turned out the little girl is their niece!
Tsering Namgyal was already sponsoring – he picked up another boarder.
Yangchen Drolkar Lama sponsored a boarder and a nun and convinced her partner Reed to sponsor a boarder and a monk.
Shawnigan Lake School grads, Tsewang Diki, Junu Dimdung and Tenzin Sangmo wrote, “We are participating in a project proposal competition called “Youth Impact Challenge.” If we were to win this competition, then we aim to contribute that winning amount to SMD.” For new kids. SMDers who were already sponsoring: Dhawa Tashi, Tsesang Gurung, Karma Dolma (with Dave), Tsewang Bhuti (with friends at St. Lawrence U, sposoring two kids) and Lhakpa Dolma still in university (arranged with her bosses to sponsor two boarders)
L-R: Dawa Dolma Sherpa and her sister Sherab Dolma, Tsering Namgyal and Yangchen Dolkar
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L-R: Karma Nangsal, Youden Lhamo, Tsewang Bhuti.
Health Workers Have Gone Back To The Mountains
After interning under a licensed HA for six months, they will return to Kathmandu, write a comprehensive exam covering everything they’ve studied, and some time after that, they will receive their licences, able to run a health post on their own.
Karma Nangsal has already started interning at the Compassion Health Post in Tsum (at Tsum Monastery), Youden Lhamo is possibly going to intern in Sama (Nubri) and Tsewang Bhuti is already interning at the Manang District Hospital in Chhame.
This was made possible by individuals and through and the Khyentse Foundation which sponsored their HA training. Pema Nurbu mentored the three, and and worked with the mountain comunities to see them placed back in the Himalayas. With big thanks to Sarah Mist.
Pemba Sherpa and Mikmar Bhuti – CHANGEMAKERS
Pemba Sherpa (L) and Mikmar Bhuti (R)
Pemba Sherpa and Mikmar Bhuti changed life in a village called Hile Nigale, Dolakha District, when they took over the operation of the village school. The also took over the learning centre and got the villagers into literacy classes and preserving the environment. During the pandemic, Pemba and Mike arranged food relief for the village, which brought in by Thrangu Rinpoche’s monks.
These two young women have had a huge impact on the village. In early summer, they were invited for a week to Switzerland and Austria by Doris Kuhn, their mentor who is a professor at the Padagogische Hochschule Zurich
Since February, Pemba and an assistant teacher have been team teaching. Mikmar Bhuti returned to Samagaon, Nubri to take the Head’s post at Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s village school.
Grade 10 Secondary Education Examination (SEE) Results
Results from the National Board Exams, which mark the end of Grade 10 have been released. As expected, results have deteriorated because the pandemic locked student out of in-person classes for all but three months. Students with internet access did better than those in outlying areas. Despite the challenges, seven of our students ranked A (from 80% – 90%, GPA 3.2 – 3.6).
Himalayan kids are tough.
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Group Photo During Teachers’ Day
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