Facebook has started to become a significant fund-raising tool for HELP. 
Between July 2018 and now our Facebook friends have raised £471 by making donations through our Facebook website (www.facebook.com/helpeducation/) or by setting up their own fundraising pages.
To find out how to set up your own Facebook fund-raising page go to www.facebook.com/fund/helpeducation/…
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So here we are, in our 16th year, still doing our best to make a difference to the lives of young people in poor Himalayan communities in India and Nepal. We can be proud of what we have achieved with your help over these years, with new school buildings and classrooms constructed with your donations, young students being helped through their education with your sponsorship money, and standards of English in village schools being raised through the efforts of our volunteer teachers, and our teacher trainer, Barbara Porter.…
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So long as you are healthy and active, you are never too old to be a HELP volunteer. Our minimum age requirement is 19, but we are just as happy to recruit seniors as young adults. Why not make the most of your retirement by volunteering with us! Here are some ex-volunteers who were not ready to throw in the towel and put their feet up!…
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By Marco Saaltink
In only four years time, I’ve noted a remarkable change in Nepal, most interestingly in education. At the end of 2014, a public school where I was volunteering—in the village of Changu Narayan, nearby the city of Bhaktapur—was planning to expand from grade 7 to grade 8. But now, only four years later, the highest level is grade 5. The student numbers have halved, at least. According to a local friend, this is due to more and more parents being able to afford to send their children by school bus to private schools.…
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We are recruiting volunteer teachers for village schools in Nepal and India for the next school year. Why not make 2019 the year you volunteer and change young lives for the better? Go to www.help-education.org/volunteer to find out more.…
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I had the welcome opportunity to undertake an inspection visit to Ladakh in the first couple of weeks of September. It was great to renew my friendships and re-visit the schools we have been supporting for the last twelve years. Ladakh is a beautiful place, with very friendly people, in spite of the rapid growth in tourism since our programme began. The tourism it is receiving at present is relatively benign giving Ladakhis a way to improve their standard of living.…
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While visiting a remote school in Ladakh on an inspection visit, I came across this lunch-time scene. The food was being donated by a friendly monk, and it consisted of pretty thin gruel; but it was definitely better than nothing. HELP sends volunteer teachers to this school.…
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This little girl in a remote primary school in Sikkim got distracted by the photographer who was taking the picture through the classroom window. HELP supports her school with volunteer English teachers and with money for new buildings.…
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Sophie Hudson has just sent in a description of her time in West Sikkim:
It’s hard to believe I’m nearing the end of my time in this amazing corner of the world. For the last few weeks I’ve been lucky enough to call Tathang, a remote and tiny village in West Sikkim, home. The outstanding landscapes and natural beauty of the area blow you away, but the people here are what makes this experience truly unforgettable.
It’s such a privilege to be able to work with the students and teachers here at Vidya Sagar.…
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Barbara Porter (Director, Volunteer Programme), who is visiting our projects in the Indian Himalayas, has just completed a three day teacher training seminar in Dehra Dun on behalf of our local partner, the Serve and Share Association. Nearly 30 participants from 16 different rural schools and interior districts of Garhwal (Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Tehri and Rudraprayag) participated and will hopefully return to their mountain schools with new ways of teaching English. Before 1947, these districts of Garwhal were ruled by a maharaja who did nothing for the education of his people.…
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