So this has been my home away from home for this week. We just made it back to Kathmandu after 4 remote school visits. I just took a wonderful HOT shower and would like to document some of my favorite moments. So many things happen here that are both magical and surreal on the other side of the world. 

 Heading to camp in Borang. The primary school here is the one Michael, Bryce, and I have adopted. We will be in this remote village where visitors have not been for years. Pasang says very few westerners ever come. Babita grew up here. We are so honored to help this school with resources.   
    
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Spent a wonderful day at Rising Ray School! It was wonderful reunions and we will be working with the school to restore two spaces for a science lab and a  computer lab for the students. These improvements will this will help the school meet requirements to progress for higher offerings through grade 12. Thanks Kiri, for making this possible!

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Loved this day so much! Organizing and purchasing materials for teachers and school libraries and planning for our celebration of our college and university ENG girls tomorrow! As we sat in the floor surrounded by books and teaching supplies we all felt very emotional thinking of these beautiful books being read to the children! Thank you to everyone that supported!!! Great great work!

Had a great dinner at AD’s house tonight with wonderful people.Sari made it in and I’m thrilled she is here!  

The sun is coming up in Nepal and I am back in Kathmandu safe and sound. I am glad to see the morning. As usual the impact of the children in Chitwan hit me once I let my guard down. I dreamed of dirty rooms full of beautiful children that disappear before me and we can’t get to them all. I think this is a natural reaction and it is associated with the awareness that the conditions for me are temporary/transient and I hsve it so easy here, I have options and resources but there is no Change in sight for many of these kids.  It breaks my heart. I think I hope that never changes. What we do is never enough and we can’t fix everything but we sure can give it what we’ve got! It makes one hell of a difference to each child we can get to and every single one counts. So, it’s a new day … Let’s GO!  

 Meet Bishrut & Shova.these are two young teachers I met today, both 22 years old. I was so impressed with their hard work and dedication to the children at Moshanpur. She is the English teacher and he is the Science teacher. He doesn’t even have a beaker or a burner and he dreams of a science lab for the children. She talked of them using their phones to show the children images because there are no teaching tools. I think we should find a way to make this happen. Nepal needs more young professionals to stay and make a difference here. Maybe we can support these dreams… I will try to put together supply boxes for each of them while back in Kathmandu… If anyone wants to help let me know! 

   I met Anita today! She is a spunky, brave 14 year old that has a contagious giggle and a gorgeous spirit. She is a   ENG scholarship girl. She is living away from her family in this village and dreams of being a computer engineer. 
This school is a very poor government school and the young English teacher shared that most of the children come from the “slum dog” area by the river. 

The primary school building was very old and was damaged by the earthquake. The gov has provided about 50%of the funds needed to rebuild.they need everything. The children don’t even have money for pencils and they have trouble keeping them in school after around 10 or 11 years old. Many of the children go to school from9-4 and then go to work for other families starting at age 6 or 7. No time for reading or homework. Life is so difficult for so many children. ENG will fulfill their wish by contributing to building and providing a resource room. I wish we could give them so much more but I’m thankful we can help in some small way. 

Tonight I went for a walk along the river with Babi & Pramita and had roasted corn for the first time. Today was just really tough to see children with so little in such poor conditions. A quiet evening was needed. One more school tomorrow and back to Kathmandu to re-group before heading to Lamjung.