Rangjung Yeshe Shenpen

is a volunteer-based, non-profit organization established to alleviate poverty and to address social challenges, mainly in Nepal. Founded in 2004 by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche and working under his regular direction, Shenpen focuses on helping the poor and disadvantaged gain access to health care, education and employment opportunities. It offers support to the elderly and street children, and works to improve the treatment of animals.

Based in Boudhanath, Nepal, Shenpen provides technical and financial support to trusted organizations with strong track records that work directly with poor communities. Shenpen also helps strengthen these organizations so they are better able to meet their long-term objectives.

Shenpen uses the skills and resources of its members and associates to identify where services are most needed, and aims to benefit as many people as possible with the resources available. It also has a strict policy of keeping its overhead at a bare minimum.

Since its inception Shenpen has sponsored over 100 projects across Nepal.

Shenpen Success

We were met above a most expansive and impressive field by Sabina Pohkrel, who was holding her curved knife in her hand, a symbol of a farming woman in Nepal. She looked like many Nepali woman who work their farms. She is thin, strong, determined. Sabina is a fortunate one, as she has family land in a rural setting not far from the large city of Kathmandu. She took the three-day Level One training - offered by WCS (Women Cooperative Society) in April 2010, where she learned that there is more profit in growing potatoes than the rice she previously grew. Before this training, Sabina said that she knew nothing about vegetable farming. She just did what those before her did.

Since she had her own land, her own seeds and homemade fertilizer she only had to invest a little money in urea (an organic fertilizer), some additional vitamins for the plants, and the wages of laborers to prepare the land.

She has already earned 100,000 rs (892 GBP) selling her first crop of potatoes (grown on 5 ropanis...

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