All posts tagged: "Nepal"

1. 2016 at Shenpen Skills Training — Empowering Nepali women by offering skills training
   

   SHENPEN Skills Training is proud to say that through our partner, the Women’s Cooperative Society (WCS), and with the financial support of C.H.A.N.C.E for Nepal (UK), SHENPEN Skills Training sponsors an average of eight farming skills training a year and reaches out to 185 women every year. Shenpen first began supporting WCS in…

2. 2016 at SHENPEN Animal — A year of vaccination, sensibilisation, education, and care
   

   In 2016, Street Dog Care (SDC), a local NGO with whom Shenpen has been working for years, vaccinated over 1,000 dogs living on the streets of Boudhanath and its surroundings. About 25 volunteers and local veterinarians supported Shenpen’s annual anti-rabies vaccination campaign in the Boudhanath area, pursuing our mission to keep the whole neighborhood safer…

3. 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…

4. The Challenges of Education in Nepal
   

   In 1951, 9,000 students were registered in primary schools across Nepal and only 1,700 students were engaged in secondary level education. At that time, Nepal counted only two colleges. There was no university. The impact of this was that only 5% of the adult population was educated in a modern…

5. Meet the community 8: Maya Tamang, a courageous mother
   

   My name is Maya Tamang and I am 32 years. Before the earthquake, I had never carried rocks, sand, or rods. I did not know about building houses. But I have learned to do all of those things and take care three children on my own.   On the day of…

6. Meet the community 4: Lama Achung
   

   “After the earthquake, a man from Lapa, northern part of Dhading district, came to the monastery. He told us that their community had received money from a Canadian donor to purchase land in Dhola, Dhading, for the people displaced by the massive earthquake and the landslides that followed it. After…

7. Meet the community 3: Dum Tsering Tamang, the construction manager
   

   Dum Tsering Tamang is the construction manager for the housing project in Dohla. He grew up tending cattle in the woods. But when he started building his own house, his life changed. He taught himself how to make doors and windows. And every time he went into the nearby city he…