All posts tagged: "Volunteering"

  1. One year already!

    On December 13th 2016, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche made a special journey to the village of Dhola, in Dhading District to view, first-hand, the progress made on the building of 55 new homes for victims of Nepal’s destructive earthquakes of 2015. Rinpoche toured the new construction site, examining every aspect and…

  2. Meet our donors: Ulli Glocknitzer

    Ulli Glocknitzer is an Austrian citizen. She works in a kindergarten as a teacher assistant. Ulli looks like having an ordinary life but she has extraordinary characteristics: her commitment to the well-being of humankind and an unbelievable devotion to people of Nepal that she visited twice. After the devastating earthquake…

  3. Rachel’s Nuwakot Journal

    The following are a collection of pictures and a journal entry composed by our wonderful Shenpen volunteer, Rachel Fiona. Thank you, Rachel, for all your kindness and hard work!   “We departed from Kathmandu at 7.00 that morning. It didn’t take too long before we left the urban landscape behind…

  4. Timuri, Rasuwa Relief Project

                On August 7th, 2015, a team of monks and volunteers left Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery in Boudhanath, KTM loaded with earthquake relief supplies destined for the Timuri/Sertang villages in the Rasuwa District of Nepal. The families of Timuri/Sertang have lacked adequate shelter since the…

  5. Jorpati Yolmo Refugee Project

    August 25th, 2015 – Although many of our Shenpen relief efforts are directed toward benefitting communities in remote areas, in some tragic cases the damage caused to large areas of land has forced entire communities to seek shelter within the Kathmandu valley. One such community has recently moved to Jorpati,…

  6. Volunteering at Kanti Children’s Hospital Playroom

    Shenpen is initiating the organization of their first project where volunteers can give their time when they are in Nepal and experience a bit of our work and the needs of the people in Nepal. We receive many requests from people all over the world who plan to visit Nepal…