Today, May 8, 2012, we celebrate the centenary of the birth of George Woodcock, who founded TRAS 50 years ago. In honour of this ‘gentle, kindly man’ who devoted so much of his life to helping others, we offer this essay (a shorter version is found in the Spring 2012 TRAS Newsletter).
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TRAS publishes a newsletter three times each year. Our Spring 2012 Newsletter was recently mailed out. You can read it online in PDF format.
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TRAS received this letter from Raj Hamal of READI Nepal, about the original 20 students:
“It is my pleasure to share with you that out of 200 children who are studying at Himali Boarding School in Simikot, one whom TRAS supported in READI’s hostel topped the whole school in final examination held recently. 4 others scored first in first class and the 15 other students were passed with good marks.
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The Student Leadership Council of Sutherland Secondary School in North Vancouver was selected as a winner of the BC Council for International Cooperation Youth Campaign!
Sutherland students have supported TRAS for six years, raising an impressive $10,000 for a vocational training program at Buddha Academy Boarding School in Kathmandu.
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We are thrilled to announce that on January 31, 2012 we reached our fundraising goal of $25,000!
And thanks to a generous donor, that amount has been matched to make a grand total of $50,000!
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Calendar of events includes The Tibetan Refugees’ Dilemma: between Exile and Accommodation, A Lecture by Dr. John Conway, Professor Emeritus of History at UBC and former TRAS President, Momo-Making Demo and Tibetan Meal, Tibetan Singing Bowl Concert, Nepali Film, Nepali Meal, TRAS’ 50th Annual General Meeting, South Asian Film Festival Canada, Trans-Himalaya: Tibet, Nepal, India – A photography exhibit by Marion Tipple, Gala Dinner Celebrating 50 Years…
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2012 marks TRAS’s 50th anniversary! Wow!
To honour and celebrate 50 incredible and successful years of funding grassroots projects that support children and youth in the Himalayas, TRAS is launching PROJECT 50!
Join us in making the world a better place for Himalayan children and youth!
Together we can:
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By Laura Kassama TRAS member Laura Kassama shares two creative and easy ways to raise money for charity. OFFICE BOTTLE COLLECTION PROGRAM I collect bottles from the office and also from my home and any friends or family who would like to participate (sometimes they give me the bottles, but more often they give me [...]
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By Marina Guy, TRAS Events Coordinator After five engaging and inspiring Vancouver-based Nepali Film Festivals we are excited to introduce the travelling Nepali Film Festivals. Now TRAS supporters across Canada can host their own Nepali Film events, showing their friends and families our most popular films while raising awareness and funds for TRAS. We will [...]
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From January to April of 2011, TRAS participated in the Community Service Learning Program at UBC (http://csl.ubc.ca). TRAS was partnered with a 3rd-year Economics course on Poverty and Inequality taught by Dr. Catherine Douglas. Dr. Douglas’s goal was for her students to develop a deeper understanding of what poverty means to people in developing countries [...]
