Community Leader and School Founding Donor Passes Away

Spring has brought Helambu the gift of education thanks largely to the generosity and leadership of the woman pictured to the left. Referred to affectionately as “Evee”, Pasang Lamani Sherpa, charity president Dorjee Sherpa’s aunt, was the donor of the lands upon which now stand Gangkharka’s first boarding school. She passed away this week from an unknown fever.

She was however, able to live long enough to see the school completed and the students and teachers arrive to begin classes. The school will be her legacy for as long as it stands, as will the good its students will do for their country years after they graduate. She will be missed by her family and neighbors in Helambu, as well as the volunteers who were lucky enough to share tea with her.

The next few months will see great advancement and milestones in development for Helambu. Construction will soon begin on a micro-hydroelectric system th

at will provide power to the boarding school, the village of Gangkharka, and other nearby areas. This will be a consistent

and environmentally-friendly source of power that will allow for multi-media lessons at the school.

The importance of this cannot be understated. In this remote area, where there are not even roads, the people of these communities will have regular access to electricity, as opposed to Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city, which now enjoys as little as four hours of electricity everyday.