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Covid relief in Kalimpong
We sent a grant to Kiran Chettri of the Hope Family Trust in Kalimpong to purchase and deliver essential supplies to the poorest members of the community. This is what Kiran has reported:
“Respected Jim Coleman and all the team from Help. Greetings to you,
It is my please to give report about the fund which you sent to support for the covid-19 relief. Rs, 86663.00 we as team of Hope Family Trust would like to extend thankfulness to you all for your generous support.…
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Supporting schools and children during the pandemic.
Although our volunteer programme has been suspended since March 2020, our sponsorship and projects programmes have continued. This year, our friends sent us £3578 to support Covid-related needs, and this money has been distributed as follows:
£600 to the Serve and Share Association in Uttarakhand, India to supply oximiters and and thermometers to seven villages, and to vaccinate villagers without access to government supplied vaccines.
£500 to enable four children in Damak, eastern Nepal, to attend school
£1000 to our Belgian partners to buy schools in western Nepal with masks, visors, thermometers, disinfectants and sanitary pads for girls
£500 to a UK charity, Our Sansar, for science equipment for a girl’s school near Birgunj, due south of Kathmandu in the terai (the flat southern part of Nepal which is part of the Gangetic plain)
£400 to buy tents for villagers in the Helambu region of Nepal who lost their houses to floods in June.…
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Amazon’s annual Prime Day event : 21 – 22 June

Amazon’s annual Prime Day event will be held on 21 – 22 June and this year, AmazonSmile is increasing the donation rate for Prime members.
All Prime members who activate AmazonSmile in their Amazon mobile app between now and the end of Prime Day will generate a 10x donation (that’s 5%!. We need every penny we can get to help poor Himalayan communities to get through the pandemic safely!…
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Coronavirus crisis in Nepal and India
Dear friends,
Last year you were very generous in sending us donations to help our schools cope with the impact of the pandemic on their finances and teaching programmes. You sent us £3,328 in total, which is more than we expected so we were able to help more schools than the one we had in mind. I reported on this in our last newsletter.
Last year, the pandemic was particularly bad in Europe and America, but just recently India and Nepal have been overwhelmed by the latest wave.…
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NEWSLETTER No. 18: December 2019 – November 2020

As you might have guessed, this has definitely not been a vintage year for our programme! Travel to and from Nepal and India has been restricted, so we haven’t been able to visit our projects, or run our volunteer programme. On the bright side, our sponsorship programme has continued, and, with your generous support, we have been helping our adopted schools survive during the lockdown.
What have we achieved this year with your help? |
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Photos from SASA, Uttarakhand
The schools we support are still closed and so our volunteer programme is on hold. We have been unable to visit Nepal and India, so it is nice to see some photos of the mountains and some happy faces. These pictures have been taken by the Serve and Share Association (SASA) in Uttarakhand, an Indian NGO we support with grants, sponsorships and volunteer teachers: www.facebook.com/shailender.david/posts/10207546497416191…
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Nepal due to re-emerge from lockdown in time for the trekking season.
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Coronavirus: school closures in Sikkim
The Sikkim government has closed all schools. Our two volunteers are having to abandon their assignments. These are difficult and worrying times for all of us.…
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The first of our 2020 intake of volunteers has arrived!
Our first two volunteers of the season have arrived safe and sound in their schools in Sikkim. I am sure they will have a rewarding two months teaching the charming children of Sikkim. We wish them well!…
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