education – Roots for Life

Rubber boots for protégés

Thursday August 24th, 2017 rootsforlifeThade

Protection from rain is especially important for our children in Thade. At the moment, it is raining exceptionally much. Thus, the construction of the school had to be interrupted. The children are very happy about[…]

Work in progress

Wednesday August 16th, 2017Wednesday August 16th, 2017 rootsforlifeTischlerinnen

Our female carpenters who we train at our carpentry workshop thogether with our local Partner Kar.Ma Coffee have only been trained for six moth, yet they already created amazing products. Their products will even be[…]

How to produce compost

Wednesday August 9th, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

Of course, for the biological cultivation of vegetables compost is needed to fertilize the fields. Among other things, this is what we show to the village women of Chyangsar on our training farm. Together with[…]

Construction of school is making progress

Monday August 7th, 2017Tuesday October 3rd, 2017 rootsforlifeThade

Despite massive rainfalls and flooding of the road, our construction project to complete the Shree Sarawati L.S. School in Thade is moving forwards. The staircase for the entrance to the first Floor has just been[…]

Training on the fields

Tuesday August 1st, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

At our training farm in the mountain village of Chyangsar we enable the villagers participating in our training courses to understand how organic farming works. Here, for example, they learn how to make fertilizer out[…]

SI Switzerland and SI France sponsor expansion of training farm

Monday July 10th, 2017Tuesday October 3rd, 2017 rootsforlifeCH_Farmgebäude

Mainly a generous donation by Soroptimist International Switzerland and Union Francaise Soroptimist International enables us to expand our training farm which is located in the mountain village of Chyangsar in Nepal. The donation is assigned to us[…]

Girls from Thade receive RfL scholarship

Friday July 7th, 2017Friday July 7th, 2017 rootsforlifeThade

Six girls from Thade were selected for a Roots for Life scholarship by the school principal of Thade together with Carola Gosch and Kusang Tamang, our local partner. In addition to an already difficult situation, some[…]

Networker for Humanity donate for building a training hall in Chyangsar

Tuesday July 4th, 2017Tuesday August 1st, 2017 rootsforlifeCH_Farmgebäude

Thanks to a generous donation from Networker for Humanity e.V. (among others) we are able to expand our training farm in the remote mountain village of Chyangsar. Since spring 2017, the village women have been[…]

Starting to sell vegetables

Tuesday July 4th, 2017Tuesday July 4th, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

Its weight is measured by a small hand scale. The organically grown vegetable is sold directly from the field and – as a start – ist goes mainly to the villagers. The vegetables come from[…]

Wood turning training for female carpenters

Friday June 30th, 2017Monday July 10th, 2017 rootsforlifeTischlerinnen

From 16 May to 15 June the women, whose carpentry training we are promoting together with our partner organization Kar.ma Coffee, took part in a wood turning course. This course is another building block of their Training.[…]