That chance meeting was all it took to put into motion this Student Sponsorship Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following his trek around the countryside, and while I was also in the mountains, Michael had a follow-up meeting with Jayjeev, my friend and Executive Director of COMMITTED, before he flew back to Switzerland with hopes of starting a pashmina-selling business with a twist\u2014it would have a social dimension to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His business would contribute a significant portion of the revenues towards the education of Nepalese children. By that time, Michael had already found a supplier and would have a first run at the Nemira-COMMITTED<\/a> SSP (Student Sponsorship<\/a> Program) this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nemira will be donating US$50.00 from the sale of every single pashmina product to support the education of children from Thangpalkot VDC, COMMITTED\u2019s project site. The VDC has a number of government schools, with Shree Raithane Secondary School being the primary focus of our education-related projects, and sponsorship being just one of them. Nemira joins us as one of the many valuable supporters of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A US$50.00 donation can cover the educational expenses of a child from half a year to a whole year depending on the age of the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Links to pages with details of children receiving support, and their supporters, resulting directly from the sale of pashmina products at Nemira will appear here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We welcome Michael and the rest of Nemira team to COMMITTED\u2019s family and look forward to a long and fruitful partnership in the education of the children of Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dorje A list of students that are already benefiting from this program as of January 15 appears below. Click on the name of the student for their profile and sponsorship details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have an interesting story behind this partnership program. Michael and I had a chance meeting at a bar in Thamel, Kathmandu early last Fall. We shared a few beers and a conversation about our work. Michael, a Swiss and a lawyer by training, had come to Nepal for vacation to do a little bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1836,"parent":1043,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1833","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Jbro-tz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29656,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1833\/revisions\/29656"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nemira\"](\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/nemira-logo-286x300.png\"){kind=logo}
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\nJanuary 15, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n