Namaste Friends!
Since arriving in Kathmandu we have been busy...busy...and i wouldn't have it any other way!
We right away went to a computer graphic friend of Ambers and designed an appreciation poster which we will be giving as a gift to all our donors of the Jana Priya Community Library Project.
You will have to wait and see what it looks like!
And....thanks to my wife, Sue Ellen, we now have registered domain name for our "official" Himalayan Education Development website. It is www.himalayaneduproject.org. So please look it up when we are finished working on it!
Amber is going to enlist the aid of a friend who designs websites to help us out.....cause there is no way I could negotiate it!....that's for sure!
In addition....we are looking to get a Professional grade film camera for our documentary film maker Karuna.
He did an outstanding job on our Tapting trek but had to rent the camera!
So we decided that we'd work to get him one!
I then contacted fellow teacher....great friend...and spiritual traveller Mark Kirsch to help us make this possible. He teaches Art,photography,Ceramics...you name it, he does it!
But his passion is photography and with his connections we are going to contact Sony and do a little "arm twisting" and --- kissing and se if they will donate a camera in return for sponsorship advertisement with our company.
I have also asked him if he would like to join us next August on a trip to film a Shaman Festival taking place in Dudh Kund. he would be a fellow documentarian. And he could use this trip as a 'teaching' tool.......AND THEN.....write the whole trip off as a deduction......and log in the much required Professional Development Hours! It seems like a win win!
This afternoon I am also meeting with an Indian correspondant and german photojournalist from the AP! I met them last night and they are here for a month doing a piece on the Maoist influence in politics in Nepal. They just returned from Sri Lanka where they were documenting the political upheavels there.
Once they discovered that i had worked with"troubled kids' ....they want to incorporate what 3 jewels is doing regarding Education in the Himalayas and how it relates to the "street children "of Kathmandu.
I eagerly agreed....but only if The Himalayan Education Development Project and 3 jewels would get some International press!
So there has not been much time for relaxing and site seeing.....but I am very excited about all of it!
My Best
Tillie
People must know what you have done for Nepaland the government must recognize your effort.
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