We would like to thank everyone who answered out appeal over the past few months and donated funds to our school. Your support helped the school a lot – we were able to buy some food before the monsoon season. Thank you everyone, you are really making a difference!


Last few months were quite busy at Pasang Memorial Community Boarding School. Few weeks ago, we had a dental heath camp at the school. Dentist volunteers from Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital in Sankhu visited Gangkharka and gave check-ups to all of our students. For most of the kids, it was their first dentist visit in their lives. There was a long line to the check-up room. Everyone was brave and some of our pupils, who had dental problems, were very happy to have their teeth fixed. Big thank you to the great team of Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital!

Galston Coffee Morning

On Saturday morning 12th June a very successful fund raising event took place at Galston Parish Church Hall, in Ayrshire, Scotland. A total of£2586 was raised on the day and eventually reached a final total of £2900 once all the monies were collected.

A group of dedicated ladies from Galston with help from many friends, including Galston Primary School exceeded all expectations by raising this fantastic amount, this was entirely due to the hard work by all concerned and over 300 visitors who came along and sampled the delicious baking that was on offer, all in the beautiful surroundings of the Hogg Hall.

A number of stalls displayed a large selection of books and bric a brac, and a lucky dip stall where everyone got a prize, Galston primary had a stall which was filled with candles, cards , plants and other gifts which were all hand made by a number of classes, supported by their teachers

‘On behalf of the children from Pasang Memorial school I would like to say thank you to everyone who supported the coffee morning and help raise these much needed funds which will support the further development of this beautiful and remote school’ Matt Dodds

Act Now! Donate!

Please donate to the basket fund on Wide Awake’s website

Pasang Memorial Community Boarding School needs $8000 to buy food before the monsoon rains wash away the roads and make it impossible for us to send any more food. Without the money the school may have to close. There are few other schools in the region and many of them are already full. 100% of all donations go to the project. The children at the school come from historically marginalized ethnic groups and really deserve a chance at an education.

Please contact us at vecgangkharka@gmail.com for any more information about the project, donating, etc. If you would like to sponsor a child, please contact us. We appreciate the support you can provide in these hard times.

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Despite the difficult economic circumstances we find ourselves in at present, we’d like to thank all of our UK support for their hard work and generosity. For more information on these and other fundraisers, take a look at our UK blog and fundraising page

We would like to thank all the contributors and Agnieszka, the volunteer who made it happen.

Banchory Primary School, based in the North East of Scotland, has raised thousands of pounds for their sister school since the pupils set up BHH ‘Banchory Helps Helambu’ in 2008.

For more information about the visit and their impressions, have a look at the Helambu UK blog

This was an extraordinary 3-hour concert in which the children performed traditional songs and dances from their region, even singing some songs in English. Indeed, most amazing of all was that the entire show was compeered in both Nepalese and English by two of the pupils. There were also presentations of certificates recognising the hard work and support of some of the villagers with speeches from the headmaster and teachers.