Christmas will be another trip into the village. We will bring new school bags and new exercise books (for the upcoming term in March/April) to all the children at the school in Hill (about 40). We will get the bags sewn in Kathmandu and we are ready to get the transport going as soon as I get there. All we need is some money. To get a school bag sewn will be about 8 Euros a piece. Then the transport
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Mama’s neue Zähne
O.k… es scheint soweit gut gelaufen zu sein. Nima’s Mama hat neue Zähne (unten) bekommen. Aufgrund der Kieferrückbildung, sowie der Tatsache, dass der letzte Zahn unten nicht stand hielt, musste ein neues “Unterteil” des Gebisses gefertigt werden. Dazu ist “Mama” tapfer mit uns nach Kathmandu gereist.. und hat wieder einiges über sich ergehen lassen müssen. Jetzt ist es aber sowieit.. – Das Gebiss sitzt und ist super.. 🙂 Leider kann ich derzeit nicht mehr vor Ort sein, aber Nima hat
Read morea new set of teeth
I have never been so touched by being at the dentist. It gave me goosebumps to be able to help here. Thanks to everybody who made watching tears of happiness my christmas present!
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The boarding school is now paid for until April 2017. Maya has already learned a lot and wrote her first card. She will probably be able to skip classes and move ahead quicker since she is a hard working girl. Not easy to be in first class at age 14. So proud of her!
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The new jacket – the first “down” in her life! Thanks to Uta
Read moreMaya
Maya’s story. “I met Maya christmas 2012, she worked in one of the lodges I had a great time at, while hiking in Langtang Valley. Coming back to Langtang Valley a couple of times before the earth quake in 2015 I caught up with her a couple of times. Shortly before the earthquake I had just found out that she had NEVER learned to read or write. She had never had a chance to go to school. So I promised
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