Please show your support to Sarvodaya Nepal

Hello folks:

A good friend of mine Shisir Khanal, as always, has taken another step towards helping others by entering a challenge to win $50,000. Please read on and any help on your part will be greatly appreciated.

America's Giving Challenge, which gives us a chance to win $50,000! (donate online: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/368553) To win, between now and November 7th we have to get the most donations to our cause (every person can donate once per day and have it count as a unique donation). The great thing about this Challenge is that it doesn't matter how much you give (as little as $10 counts towards the competition).

I wonder if you can donate $10 ? http://apps.facebook.com/causes/368553

It would be very helpful if you can write a personal note to people about the competition and encourage them to donate and help spread the word. You can use the information below.

I would deeply appreciate any way you can help.


Here's why it is a unique school to support:
The day Kanchan, 7, was born, her father passed away. Several months later her mother went abroad for a job and never returned. Kanchan grew up with her grandmother, 70, and uncle, a retired health worker. Needless to say, life has been very difficult for the family. But when it came to educating Kanchan, they turned to a local community school – Jyotidaya. Jyotidaya provides free education to Kanchan and 40 other children. In addition, about 300 children who would not have access to quality education currently benefit school’s services.

➢ National model that examples by the power of community’s collective action. (could be replicated in other communities).
➢ Alternative to expensive private school and low quality public schools.
➢ 1 in 8 children, mostly orphans and children from poor family study for free.
➢ About 300 children benefit from Jyotidaya’s high quality education.
➢ 100% students who have taken SLC have passed, compared to less than 50% from public schools.
➢ Students participate in community service and development through shramadana. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Fd1g2PXLE
➢ New infrastructure will allow the school to bring innovative educational systems that integrates spiritual traditions with modern and scientific learning processes.
➢ Planned new construction building will use local materials such as adobe and bamboo, it will be one of the most environmentally friendly school building in Nepal. A model that promotes the use of low cost, local and traditional methods of construction.
➢ The school will also integrate perm culture and sustainable agriculture programs to inspire young people to take productive life style.
➢ New buildings will provide facilities to train public school teachers and parents in rural area to begin the transformation process of Nepalese education system.

Let's get everybody involved and win $50,000
By the way, we will have each donors name on the school wall to celebrate the giving.

Link to learn more and donate: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/368553

Shisir

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Help Sarvodaya win $50,000 to build a model school in Nepal. Learn more and donate:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/368553




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Help Sarvodaya win $50,000 to build a model school in Nepal. Learn more and donate:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/368553

Robbery

Usually we get robbed during the holiday season but perhaps the recession has taken its toll on the burglars too.......Yeah, we got robbed yesterday in one of our stores, the same guy who did our other store a week ago......this is happening so often that even the whole robbery squad, detectives and cops recognize me! Nothing that I'm proud of. Anybody know who this guy is?? Any tips will help us put this person behind bars!

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It feels great to be done with Anger Management. If you did read my older article about Anger Management, you probably notice how upset I was. Now I'm done! Did I learn how to control my anger? Yes I did. Only because, the old consular I had, retired the day I posted the blog! Carol came in as the new consular and she was great: experienced, friendly and CALM! Unlike Frank, the old Bastard, if only I could smack him....oops......breathe breathe......

Support Ujjwal Shrestha help Namje Scholarship Fund

On June 20th, Ujjwal will be running the ‘Mount Washington Road Race’ in New Hampshire to raise funds for the Namje School Scholarship Fund. The race is 7.6 miles long with nearly 5000 feet of climb. Namje is a cozy little town in the eastern hills of Nepal, not too far from his hometown, Dharan. He visited Namje when he was in Nepal in November 2008. Namje school is the only school in this scenic village. There are a lot of energetic and smart kids in Namje but a lot of these kids have been deprived of education due to the lack of financial support.

The proceeds from the fundraiser are going to benefit promising but poor children in Namje School. Therefore, we were wondering if you could donate and support him and be a part of this noble cause. Any amount you donate will go a long way in funding the education of these kids. All your efforts will be genuinely appreciated!

You can make your donation by going to:
http://www.helpnepal.net and clicking on ‘Donate’ at the top.

(Please choose ‘Namje Scholarship Fund’ if you make the donation online)

Or, you can also make checks payable to ‘Help Nepal Network, USA’

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Now I really feel sorry for Mike Tyson. I think he's being punished one way or the other. :Losing his career and now his daughter! I wonder how he is coping with the sudden flash of fame and now this immense wealth of sorrow and sadness. Well, enough is enough. Give him a break!

Anger Management

Last year in November, I was celebrating my birthday with some of my good friends or perhaps what I thought of them then. It was a pleasant night and I sure did have fun. But as alcohol takes control of our heads, we tend to degrade ourselves to a totally repelling and unjustifiable level. Thus, a fight broke out amidst friends and as I was playing the mediator, desperately trying to break the fight, I was rewarded with handcuffs. Amidst the hustle and bustle, I may have shoved an officer and he took me in despite my pitiful plea of innocence. Perhaps, in his mind, justice was served.

Oh did I forget to mention that even my brother, his girlfriend and another friend who is as close as a brother was arrested too? Their mistake: Trying to talk to the officer stating my innocence!! SO MUCH FOR A BARGAINING PLEA! It was quite a birthday gift; being arrested for trying to restore peace; nearly tasered for saying “I didn’t do nothing” and a few hours in the cell! Interesting, huh? We were charged with Breach of Peach and interfering with the officer.

Well after 4 months of constant visits to the court and after hiring three lawyers the court decided to gives us an AR (Accelerated Rehabilitation), a once in a life chance to make things right. During this period, we have to stay out of trouble of any kind. I am the only one among the four required to take Anger management class! It’s 13 classes, a class every week!

A short thin old man probably in his 70s with dyed reddish hair, thick spectacle over his nose barely able to walk without complaining about his joints and back is my Anger Management Consular. He is always mad and always looking out the window the minute we walk into the class. I later found out that he was on the lookout for his bosses’ car. The minute the car wasn’t there, he would let us go whether it was 5 minutes of class or 30. Well this is the class I have to attend paying $35 per class. Does it really help me? Of course not! What if I really needed the anger management treatment? Everybody tells me that I have become angrier after I have started attending that class. Well I have!!