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In most beautiful Prague Chapel Betlemská we created another Benefit Concert for Sun School
Lenka Dusilová/ Zeurítia/ SoUsedi/ Jaroslav Dušek Monday 14th May 2012, door open at 19:00 (7.00pm) Betlehem Chapel, Betlehem Square, PRAGUE 1 Tickets available on www.tickepro.cz >> more
David taught in Kargyak School for 5 months and also lived in Himalaye about a year.
He will share his experiance in Cross club cafe on 7.1.2012 >> more
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Kargyak is an isolated village situated in the Indian Himalayas in the altitude of 4200 m above sea level and it is one of the last places where the original Tibetan culture still survives. Until recently, there was no school in the village and the children had no other chance but either to leave for distant boarding schools or never to learn to read and write. In September 2009 the Surya Civic Association finished construction of the specially designed “passive” school-building heated by sun, fully ecological and also compatible with local structures also in terms of appearance.
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News from Kargyak
Time of ploughing, sowing, dusting and having a parents meeting visited by a VIP person - 2012-05-08
Spring sun quickly melt down winter snow from Himalayan giants above Kargyak and vilagers began to irrigate their fields- time of ploughing and sowing just came. We started with big cleaning at school and its surroundings. Children collected trash, removed stones, broomed, wiped dust, sorted and assiduously trired to make their school more beautiful. Now they have their heads full of the tests, which they will write under supervision of goverment teachers in the middle of May.
Spring finally came to Kargyak... - 2012-04-14
snow is disappearing from sheer slopes and birds are singing around us. Soon it will be two months when we have returned from festival in Buddhist Monastery in Phuktal. Many long days we were looking for sun without success in those times.
It has been over a month since the two of us arrived to the Sun School and replaced Zuzka and Karol. The school programme follows the winter timetable, i.e. once in a fortnight on Sturdays from 10:00 to 15:00, without any problems.
We help teach English in the neighbouring village of Ski twice a week – I teach on Fridays and Libor on Tuesdays. Wednesday evenings are devoted to movies for kids, which we show on a PC. On Monday evenings we show films for adutls. We organised a sleepover at school for girls from the 5th, 6th and 7th grade, which was a great success. Particularly making decorations from beads and showing films in ladake were very popular. Local people often invite us to join their families for dinner and so we get to taste local specialities.
Blanka and Libor - the journey to Kargyak - 2012-02-21
The Zanskar river finally closed its flow into icy crust and we set out to Chadar - winter route into the heart of Indian Himalayas to Sun School of Kargyak full of expectation. In a short distance behind village of Chilling, where the route for 4 wheel drive cars ends, we descended unsafely on the ice. Every cracking of the ice, sloping ice floe, even running water in our close proximity commanded our great respect. Our three porters moved forward quite surely with a load and to us remained only to follow them with reliance. After first suspicion into the solidness of the ice passed away, we were gobbled up by atmosphere and gorgeous scenery, which surrounded us.
Zuza and Karol - looking back - part 2 - 2012-02-19
Dear readers of Kargyak’s News,
we hope, you can read this issue, which is supposed to be sent from Padum by local “pharmacist” who is on the way to get some drug supplies for winter. We still hope he will manage as this journey there and back with the same goal already happened twice before, but we have to consider that it is not anything unusual. Since our last report, we have faced the coming winter bravely and with enthusiasm, the only thing which complicates our lives is wind which gets so strong that it can move objects such as our solar panels. Necessary adjustments have been were done on the roof so now we worry only about our solar cookers (and cakes inside) because they are in a big threat because of this wind. Anyway, let´s talk about events of last weeks.
