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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nepali Snow-Person!
We had a special visitor come to our home on this snowy day....a Nepali snowman!
Arms extended waiting for a hug!
Whose glasses are those, anyway?
Wrapped up for the cold...brrrr!!!
Monday, January 16, 2012
'Send Girls to School' Sponsors Sima!
'Send Girls to School (SGS)' - http://www.sendgirlstoschool.org/ has volunteered to help sponsor Sima Tamang attend a new school this coming spring! SGS supports education for girls in the developing world. TRIFC is excited to have SGS partnering with us to help girls with disability in Nepal. Sima is bright, engaging and has a good sense of humor. She is also blind. Thank you, SGS!
Sima Tamang
Monday, January 9, 2012
Kasthamandap Rotaractors Deliver!
Rotaractors from the Kasthamandap (Kathmandu) Club delivered 50 Braille books to the Namuna Machindra School for use by the Blind/Visually-Impaired students at the school. These books were packaged and shipped to Nepal by TRIFC volunteers. 1,800 boxes of Braille books were sent over to our Braille Library in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2010. The Kasthamandap Rotaract Club has agreed to help sort and distribute some of the books to school libraries throughout Nepal! Thank you, Rotaractors and Club President- Binayak Dahal!
Braille books being delivered to the resource teacher for the blind
Rotaractor sorting books
Rotaractor in action!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
TRIFC and Dhulikhel Rotaract Working Together
For the past eight months, TRIFC has been partnering with the Rotaract Club of Dhulikhel to provide nutritional support to 14 blind/visually-impaired children at the Sanjiwani School in Nepal. Rotaract is a Rotary sponsored international service organization comprised of young people between the ages of 18-30.
Being able to partner with such a high-quality group of young adults on this project is like finding a rare jewel! The Rotaractors visit the school twice a month and bring enough bread so that it can be served daily, over 80 eggs a month, chicken, fruits, beans and juice drinks.
The young man pictured in the photo (light shirt and blue sweater) handing out food is the past-president of the Rotaract Club- Subash Shrestha.
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Education Funds Raised for Children With Disabiity!
Thanks to the stellar efforts of Mari and the entire Jolkona.org team, $900 in school-fee funding was raised to support the children living at DHC Newlife Center in Kathmandu, Nepal. DHC Newlife Center "is a non-profit and non-government organisation established in 2010, with the mission and vision to provide a caring home environment with education, healthcare and the development of the lifeskills necessary to assist children who are disabled and/or without any means of support to become self reliant and independent adults." TRIFC is proud to be associated with this wonderful organization!
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Gift of Music for the Blind/Visually-Impaired!
Thanks to funding received from our TRIFC supporters we were able to provide a variety of new musical instruments for Blind/Visually-Impaired (BVI) children at Laboratory School in Kathmandu. Ms. Sita Gyawali is our volunteer project coordinator for our blind programs. Sita (who is BVI) teaches computer skills to BVI children at Laboratory School. The children were very excited and happy to get these new instruments!
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