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Activities
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| Roundtable
Discussion: |
Roundtable
Discussion was organized to allow all the
members to discuss and agree on various
agendas such as strategic planning, reviewing
the Constitution, Reopening of Yangrima
School and developing an action plan. It
was held on, 1st, 15th and 22nd September
2007. Please find the attached files with
minutes and conclusions from the meeting. |
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| Congratulation
and Orientation Ceremony for SLC Graduates: |
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One
of the aims YESS had taken on back in 2000
at its first meeting was to encourage students
from Yangrima School and the Helambu region,
and to give them academic and career counseling.
Congratulating the School Leaving Certificate
graduates has been our major annual event
and we have made it a bigger event as we now
organize in partnership with several different
organizations from the Yolmo indigenous community
of the Helambu region. |
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To enrich
this event, YESS works several months ahead
to organize some scholarships for financially
disadvantaged students in order to support
them. YESS would like to thank following
institutes and colleges for their generous
support extended to us. They are New Summit
College, Ideal English Boarding Higher School,
White House College, Universal College,
Sagarmatha College, Global College of Management,
KEBS Academy, JayaDevkota Memorial College,
United Academy, and New Era Institute. Please
check here for detail to review who are
on Scholarship Benefit from SLC 2006 Batch.
We are particularly pleased to announce
two Scholarships that we have been able
to set up permanently and they are YESS/New
Summit College Scholarship Award and Karpu
Lama Scholarship Award.
Please click here for Scholarship detail:
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| Documentary
on the Greater Nepal: |
YESS
hosted a documentary screening of “The
Greater Nepal” to inform and appreciate
the work of one of the Nepalese Youths who
spent an onerous time in accomplishing this
project about Nepal before a popular treaty
called Sugawali Sandhi was made with East
India Company during the British regime
in India.
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| YESS
Peace Marathon 2007: |
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YESS
has grown to become a springboard for new
ideas and a setting that nurtures them.
In June 2007, we organized a peace run tilted
YESS Marathon for Peace and Education 2007
escorted by one of our members, Mr. Tshering
Lama, a professional marathoner who has
won several national and international medals.
Coordinated by Mr. Tshering Lama and Mr.
Pasang Tshering Lama, YESS was able to gather
hundreds of people to run for peace carrying
the message of education. We were joined
by prominent marathoners of Nepal and some
of the latest heroes who have scaled Mount
Everest. Thanks to Nepal Television, Kantipur
Publication, Kathmandu Post and Himalayan
Times for highlighting this peaceful event
as healthy sport news and all those participants
for ignoring quite a heavy rain and messy
traffic. YESS will organize this event every
year from now on. |
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| Partnership
with SJK School, Canada: |
In
the beginning of March 2007, our age long
Canadian yet Nepali friends Rob and Judy
and friends brought a group of their students
for a cultural exchange program and to do
some community service work in the mountain
schools in partnership with YESS. Along
with several of YESS friends, their group
was arranged to make a circuit Trek of Helambu
stopping in almost all the schools all the
way to Yangrima School from where we made
our acquaintance back in 1996. In the light
of Yangrima remaining out of operation,
the group worked hard to re-order things
and clean, and we celebrated their presence
by organizing a football tournament between
YESS group and SJK group. We are thankful
to the SJK group for their generous support
to fund the work of reopening of Yangrima
School. Please check here for the details
of how the SJK funds have been utilized
or are going to be utilized. |
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| Anthony
Lunch Visit: |
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Anthony
Lunch needs no introduction for YESS group or
any Yangrima family. The director of MondoChallenge
who supported Yangrima School from the UK through
Sermathang Project right from its early development
until the school was forced into closure made
a sojourn to Nepal in early February 2007. We
had a great meeting with him and it was the
first time that he personally witnessed what
the YESS group is really doing, though he had
been supporting us in many ways from its start.
The president of YESS, Jimmy Lama, before departing
for Abu Dhabi, was invited for a quick meeting
with Anthony Lunch to discuss the Reopening
of Yangrima School. In the meeting, he reassured
us of his support in several ways from rebuilding
costs to teachers' salaries to future volunteer
placements. Before his departure from Nepal,
all the YESS group and Yangrima family were
invited for a dinner party at a restaurant in
nearby Boudhanath. |
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| YESS
T-Shirt: |
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produced 150 T-shirts with new logo to raise
our campaign of fundraising. The new design
gave a slogan reading YESS! Never Say No.
The T-shirts have traveled to our friends
living all over the places around the world,
and it is being used for all occasions at
YESS. We are thankful to Alpha Phi Omega Group
in American University for helping us raise
funds by selling and promoting YESS T-shirts. |
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| YESS
Picnic 2007: |
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A
delightful picnic for YESS at Yangrima School
was organized on the 1st of January 2007.
An unexpected number of friends joined us.
Half of the participants who were not YESS
members represented different youth-related
organizations and colleges. The amazing thing
about this three-day event was that all the
activities came under the cost of Rs 500 per
head. And this was all possible because of
the generous support we received from our
friends and we would like to thank them all.
The picnic also became first step towards
our goal of reopening Yangrima School. A large
number of local people who arrived for a meeting
from different villages gave us a very positive
response and showed their full solidarity
with our effort to reopen Yangrima School. |
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| Exchange
with Brenderup Hojskole. |
Yangrima
Ex-Students Society (YESS) and Brenderup
Hojskole built an educational relationship
in order to promote cultural exchange in
our respective countries. In the MoU, we
state the Brenderup Hojsokole will take
care of students coming from Nepal through
YESS in Denmark and similarly YESS will
be responsible for supporting Danish volunteers
coming to Nepal for cultural programs. Currently,
Mr. Ole Dedendroth, the principal of Brenderup
Hojskole, will act on behalf of Brenderup
Hojskole in Denmark and Mr. Jimmy Lama will
represent on behalf of YESS in Nepal.
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Two
members and three friends of YESS left for Brenderup
Hojskole, Denmark for their six-month course
for International Class to learn about topics
such as Globalization, Internationalism, Democracy,
EU, Culture, Conflict, UN, and also to gain
some skills.
They were Punam Lama (Vice-President), Mendo
Lama (Executive member), Pemba Lama (Ex-Yangrima
Student), Manjo Dahal (Friend) and Anoj Silwal
(Friend).
Please read a brief report by one of the students
who successfully completed a course at Brenderup
School (Feb 25- June 16 2007). |
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| Reopening
of Yangrima School Discussion Series: |
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As
part of its long term goal to reopen Yangrima School,
YESS set off a discussion series among varied groups
including ex-students, ex-teachers, locals, ex-supporters,
ex-administrators. The idea behind holding a discussion
program was to receive plenty of feedback from different
individuals and groups about their opinions and views
regarding the reopening of Yangrima School. Please
read some reports and articles that YESS produced
from the discussions and related activities. |
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progress to this date convinces us of three things:
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That
everyone is unanimous about the reopening of
the school.
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The school will run in a community model through
TRUST.
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Yangrima
School will set up partnerships with local schools
for their academic support whenever and however
possible.
For more detail on Reopening of Yangrima work and
information, please go to Reopening of Yangrima
School Project.
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Highlights
of YESS Activities in the previous years |
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