NEW Primary Sch. & PC's at St Joseph's Sch. GitDubling partly funded by St. David's primary School Pilton Edinburgh 2009

New primary School Building St. Joseph's GitDubling 2009

Article from Summer'09 "The Portobello Reporter"

BAG PACKING SAINSBURY'S MEADOWBANK

REALLY REALLY NEEDED

HELP WITH BAG PACKING AT SAINSBURY'S MEADOWBANK ON SATURDAY 30th MAY

ANY TIME BETWEEN 10.00 and 15.00 HOURS

EVEN 1 HOUR WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED

ALL HELPERS MUST BE 12 OR OVER

ALL PROCEEDS TO THE HIMALAYAN CHILDREN EDUCATION TRUST

ALL MONEY FROM TRUST GOES TO SUPPORT TEACHERS' WAGES

IN ST MARY's TRIBAL SCHOOL, NOK DARA and

ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL, GITDUBLING

EDUCATING NEPALI CHILDREN IN THE KALIMPONG HILL REGION OF

WEST BENGAL, INDIA

Would you like to help to educate Nermith?

Dear Pauline
I am sending you the details of Nermith for sponsorship. Kindly go through it and let me know if you need more details.
Thanks
Father Felix

Name : Nermith Lepcha
Father's Name: Lt. Karna Lepcha
Mother's Name: Neomith Lepcha
Family Details: 9 members in the family
Number of children : Seven
Number of Brothers: Four
Number of Sisters: Three
School studying at Present:
St. Mary's School,
Nok Dara, Kalimpong
Class studying in: Class LKG
Yealy income of the family Rs. 9000 ; approx £14
Family Description
The family economic condition is very poor. They don't have any land of their own. They have no fixed income source. Howeer, recently the mother has a small job which brings in Rs.800 per month. the amount is not even sufficient for the food of the entire family. The mother alone works. She has no one to help her. All children are small and unable to work now. they need finacial support for the education of the children. Nermith is studying well at St. Mary's school. She has walk a long distance to the school. It will be a great help if she could stay along with the teachers near the school. The family will be very grateful if they get some finacial help for the childrens' education.

The father is unable to work due to ill health.

SCHOOL CONTACT DESIRED

Pictures of some of the teachers supported by : THE HIMALAYAN CHILDREN EDUCATION TRUST

To enable every child from the Hill Region, helped by the Himalayan Children Education Trust, to be able to get an education, up to the age of 12, we need to raise £3920 per annum to support 13 teachers. The teachers earn £25 per month.

Because there is very little paid work in this deprived region, the teacher is probably the only wage earner in their extended family.

Some of the children are sponsored from other sources, which enables them to pay for their education, however many of the families have very little money and are unable to pay for education for their children.

St. Joseph's, the largest of the 5 schools in this Hill Region, also takes in street, work and abandonded children from other regions in West Bengal. These children require total financial support.

I had hoped that a few of the schools in Edinburh and the Lothians would have permitted me to come and give a talk to, perhaps one class in the school, say Primary 6 or 7, and that they may

have agreed to sponsor 1 teacher for a year.

I have written to many schools and sent an information pack, however the response has been minimal. One school in Midlothian has been very supportive, for which I am very grateful.

If you visit my blog and have a contact with a school, I would very much appreciate your help in making contact with that school.

I can be contacted through my blog on the comments page.