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Help to support the children in Manjushri Educational Project
Within the first 6 months of the Manjushri Educational Project (Nepal charity registration number 1060/2066, estd. 2009), we have managed to raise enough funds to cover 29 students from Nepal and 16 students from Bhutan for two years.
The children of MEP are grateful for your support. Every dollar from you makes a difference for these needy children, who otherwise could not receive proper education.
Please note that no administration expenses are rendered as we are all volunteers helping in this project. All your donations will be directly and mindfully spent to purchase school uniforms, textbooks and stationeries, school admission and tuition fees.
We plan to support each child for the next 10 years till they finish secondary school. If you are interested to help us again, or sponsor a particular child’s educational expenses annually, please contact me if you need more information.
Thank you and may all be well and happy.
Updates from Nepal
Thanks to Heika Wierenga for the updates. She is now in Nepal and providing assistance to the students in this project.
She said: ” these kids are sooo poor, she wore old slippers twice the size of her feet ”
Your sponsorship can definitely make a difference! Thank you.

Updates on MEP Students in Bhutan
In Bhutan, when modern schooling in the country first started to expand in the late ‘50s, students for schools, set up in makeshift huts with a few teachers, had to be picked up from the villages.
Parents hid their children, declared some to be not normal, and put forward those, who probably had an inclination towards mischief.
They went to school with perhaps only a single set of clothes, the ones they were wearing, and with nothing on their feet.
Things haven’t changed much in many urban and rural schools. Today, the trend is such that most parents want to put their children in school as early as possible, or least much earlier than what government schools stipulate (at six years old), so that someone else can take care of the children as they worked. The logic remains the same – start early, finish early.
http://www.kuenselonline.com/the-best-start/#.UPilVSfqlNM
http://www.kuenselonline.com/education-and-teachers-in-bhutan/#.UPinFyfqlNM
Education is free in Bhutan, a country proud of the Gross National Happiness. BUT all other expenses related to the child is not free. Uniforms, shoes, socks, stationery, food in schools and other expenses are not free.
This is where the Manjushri Educational Project comes in. We can provide the necessary funds to fill up the gaps. We have purchased school uniforms, shoes, books, stationary, and pocket money to the children to make their education.
We have enclosed the receipts of the purchases, and the pictures of happy Bhutanese students receiving a new pair of shoes.
Regular meetings are also held to provide better care and understanding the needs of the children.
YES. your donation makes a difference.
Updates on MEP School Results
We have received the report cards of the children (for both Nepal and Bhutan students) and an update from a friend of this project.
” I’m here in Nepal presently and witness the first 18 children learning so fast, since the kids have been enrolled, 5 month ago, they now read, write and speak some English. Khen Rinpoche is looking to place 100 more from this village. The goal is to offer school to all folks in this Sarki Village. …help us reach that goal please? ”
~ From Heika Wierenga
(Facebook post on 16 Jan 2013)
Report cards from Nepal
Report Cards from Bhutan
Our website is now directly linked to Paypal for donation (pls see top right hand corner).
You need to be registered in Paypal (free of charge) for this online donation.
For more information, please email us at:
manjushrieducational@gmail.com
文殊教育方案
肯千南卓仁波切(以下简称为肯仁波切)在尼泊尔的寺庙附近,住着许多贫困家庭,他们的阶级是社会最低下层的一级,他们的生活完全无有出头之日。一般大众忽略他们、躲避他们;吃着很少的粮食,也无法接受教育,他们生活得非常痛苦。肯仁波切感到,要改善他们的生活最好的方法就是接受教育。因此他着手成立一个助学计划,“文殊教育方案”,来帮助这群尼泊尔孩童完成十年教育之路。现在在尼泊尔“文殊教育方案”已经有20个孩童 – 由小一到小四不等,加入这项教育方案。他们已经进入派平区最好的小学之一- “枢机国际寄宿高等学校(Cardinal International Boarding High School)”就读。仁波切希望能扩大此一计划,让更多贫穷的孩子有机会上学。
除了学费,仁波切也供给他们学校内的杂用所需,像书包、文具、制服;还甚至为他们提供2公里以内的往返通勤公车。现在这些孩子一个星期有六天,能高高兴兴地到枢机国际寄宿高等学校接受优质的教育;仁波切发现:仅仅上学一周,在学校能吃营养的食物,能跟随老师热切地学习,这些孩子的脸上已然放射出光辉,生活的愿景也大幅度地提升了!肯仁波切非常感谢首批为这个计划打下基础的赞助人士;他写下:这一切成就都是来自您善心与善德的支持。
崇南瓦济喇嘛是董事会的成员之一,近日他造访派平,并且发表演讲,欢迎这些学生的到来;也将文殊教育方案的目的与内容和学生的老师、家长、朋友一同分享。
在此我们恳切地邀请您来参与这个计划,尽所能地来支持这个善举,帮助这群没有人愿意帮助的众生。这项计划的目的是要提供这些有缘的孩童一个完整的教育方案,因此也希望您发长远心来支持他们。
肯仁波切对于所有捐助款项的使用都非常小心谨慎,您所捐助的每一块钱都会如您所愿地用在这些孩童身上;这些孩子的家庭不会从经费中得到任何形式的资助。学费将直接交给学校;相关的学业用品也会事先采购好,直接交给学生。
每一名孩童一年所需是美金365元,一日一美元。以下明细表列出一名孩童一年所需的开支项目(银元单位为尼泊尔的卢比,以80卢比对一美元的汇率为基准,或高或低随市场浮动而订)。故一年所需大约为29,200卢比。
此款项不涉及医疗费用,所有正式收据皆以尼泊尔卢比开单,大约六周的时间您可以收到您的收据。
开支数目每年更新,以应通货膨胀之变迁。
项目 数目(卢比) 一年消费次数 一年支出
学费 1300 12 15600
交通费 300 12 3600
电脑 125 12 1500
制服 2300 2 4600
文具用品 1385 2 2770
考试费 275 4 1100
总数 29170
Note 注:当经费更充裕时,我们希望有更多的孩子加入文殊教育方案。每个孩子都应当有平等的机会接受教育。若有新增学生加入,以上名单将随之更新。
肯千南卓仁波切:现在大多数时间住在尼泊尔派平(位于加德满都山谷)的扬列硕附近的宁玛白玉闭关中心, 是宁玛派极受重视的教授师(Khenpo)。仁波切为闭关中心住持,教授师,更是一名实地修行者。他为佛法与为保存与弘扬金刚乘宁玛派的承传精诚地奉献,感动与鼓舞了来自世界各地的学生。
Happy New Year 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone.
The MEP is a wonderful opportunity to provide humanitarian assistance to these children who otherwise will not have a chance to attend school because of poverty in the country. As the volunteers running this project are Buddhists and monks, with the right intention of compassion and wisdom, it would be most effective to help them our of poverty through proper education of the next generation.
This is a meaningful project that needs your participation and contribution. Do consider saving a dollar a day for these children. We welcome any amount of donation.
May all be well and happy always.
With Gratitude Always
Give Knowledge and Wisdom this Christmas
During the end of the year, many people would give presents as rewards and thanksgiving to relatives and friends, to show our appreciation and gratitude.
Whilst we are doing this, we must remember those who are less fortunate and those who need help to even provide basic education for the children. The Manjushri Educational Project aims to help poor Nepal and Bhutan children to improve their lives by providing them proper education. Started by Khenpo Namdrol Rinpoche of Nyingma Palyul Retreat Center Nepal, we are currently supporting 29 students in Nepal and 16 students in Bhutan. This is a on-going project for the next 10 years until the children completed secondary school education.
The Gift of knowledge and wisdom is most valuable and meaningful. This project needs your continual support so that more benefits can be generated with the collective wisdom from everyone. With your help, we can help more children and continue to support them.
http://manjushrieducational.org/
http://www.facebook.com/manjushrieducational
We hope you can help to support this meaningful project and share this email with your friends to create awareness, so that more children can get sponsorship. Donation can be made via Paypal at
http://knamdrol.org/ManjushriEducationalProject.html
Thank you and Merry Christmas.
MEP is not child adoption, But child sponsorship
Question: CAN WE ADOPT ANY OF THE CHILDREN UNDER THIS PROJECT?
Answer: The Manjushri Educational Project is not a child adoption program. This is a project where people can sponsor the education of a child of many desperately poor families living in Nepal and Bhutan, who have no means of improving their life circumstances; Most are of the lowest caste, ignored and shunned by most people and have little to eat, no education and suffer terribly.
We believe that the best way for them to improve their own lives is through education and removing a child from his/her parent is not our intention. The project is not targeted to unwanted orphans or abandoned street children, but needy families who could not afford to provide education for their children even when they wanted to. We give these children a chance out of poverty through education.
So far, we have help 29 Nepali children and 16 Bhutanese children. You can help us promote this project and increase awareness and support.
Children recruited in 2013
With the additional money collected, Manjushri Educational Project has recruited more children in Nepal.
Thank you for all your sponsorship and support. With your help, we can help more children to provide them with a proper education.
The Gift of knowledge and wisdom is most valuable and meaningful. This project need your continual support so that more benefits can be generated with the collective wisdom from everyone.
With Gratitude.










































