Project Update: July Visit
The multi-purpose court & new building in the background.
A short post about my most recent visit to Thangpalkot. I was accompanied by a friend and former colleague from my days in Qatar.
Project Update: March Visit
10th graders hard at work preparing for SLC in the Science Laboratory.
COMMITTED makes regular visits to our project site, Thangpalkot village. This is post about our March visit when we took along our Swiss friends!
Project Update: Reading in Thangpalkot
Taltuleshwori School star readers with their prizes posing for a group photo.
Another post about COMMITED's visit to Thangpalkot village, our project site, in early February. This one is mostly about our attendance at Star Reader recognition functions at the schools in the area, and about the discovery of the sad fate of one Star Reader.
Travel: Small Talk…Nothing Biggie
One of things I am struggling with returning to the US has been getting used to serving portions. Thanks to the Rosenfield Program, Grinnell College group I had dinner at Rube's Steakhouse last Thursday. What you see is the result of my attempt at eating a T-bone steak there. The one I picked was the smallest T-bone steak they had. (You pick your own steak and barbecue yourself as well, which was a lot of fun.) And, though the placement of cutlery and the remaining food on the right might indicate otherwise, I was done!
My observations of the US based on my three-week experience in the country, visiting it for the first time in over ten years!
Social Justice: Caste Away
Your birth as anything (class, caste, race, nationality etc.) or with any trait (skin color etc.) considered to be a characteristic of an inferior human being is not shameful. YOU HAD NO CHOICE IN THAT!
It's those that view and interpret that as such and make you suffer for it who are shameful: THEY HAVE A CHOICE IN THEIR VIEW OF, THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS AND THEIR TREATMENT OF YOU!
Social Justice: Marked From Birth
Details of the discrimination I faced in Nepal, what I do, and why I do what I do for those who suffer even more discrimination!