NAMASTE Friends!

WARNING!!! DO NOT ATTEMPT a trip to Nepal with ANSWER without expecting life-changing results..... Look what it did to me! If you dare, read on...

Have you ever bathed with an elephant or rounded up rhinos? Or seen a sunrise on the Himalayas? Or helped a child write a letter in a foreign language?

 

For those adventurers who would like to experience Nepal up close and personal, I will be in Nepal once again this spring to help you. Each year a small group of Answer sponsors meet in Kathmandu for an exotic, once in a lifetime journey. One never knows what will happen on these safaris!  

 

So far we have 9 sponsors expressing interest to visit Nepal in April 2014. How about you?
I am in Nepal now but email me!

 

Earle Canfield 

 

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Know Any Potential Sponsors? 
If you would like to sponsor one of these students: please contact Earle Canfield by email: jecan314@gmail.com and include your phone number--he will call you back from Nepal!
Help spread the word!  Please forward this on to anyone who might make a good sponsor!

Student Bios

#895 Nikita Bhatta

Age/Sex: 16 yo/F   Address: Simara

Grade & School: 10thGrade @ Simara Public

Performance: 90% (1st position) Att'nce: Reg.

Annual Cost for Study: $300 (EMDS)

Ethnic Identity: Brahmin

Occupation: Farmer

Annual Earnings: Not more then $1000

Number of Children in Family: 2

 

Nikita is in first position in her class. She loves math very much because she likes to solve mathematical problems. Her favorite game is football. She likes to travel new places. Her parents are farmers and grow rice paddies. Sometimes her father also sells paddy.

    Nikita has one elder brother who is in university now. Nikita is very interested in physics and in future she wants to work in this field. She also has plans to open one college in her area because she thinks there is no good college in her home village.

  

 

#750    Ram Bahadur Nepali

 

Age/Sex: 15 yo/M   Address: Kushma

Grade & School: 8thGrade @ Rastriya Bal

Performance: 85%  Att'nce: Reg.

Annual Cost for Study: $300 (EMDS)

Ethnic Identity: Lower Caste (Tailor)

Occupation: Labor

Annual Earnings: Not more then $1000

Number of Children in Family: 3

 

Ram Bahadur belongs to low caste in Nepal. His caste's profession is to work as a tailor for other people. But his father is in India and does labor work there. Ram's parents are very much motivated towards their children's education.

     Ram likes Science very much. His favorite game is Volleyball. He also like to act, to read stories books and to travel different new places. He has two elder sisters ( one is already married and another is in grade 10 in village govt school). In future, Ram wants to be a doctor and wants to work for rural areas in Nepal.

 

 

Age/Sex: 16 yo/M   Address: Siraha

Grade & School: 9thGrade @ Evergreen

Performance: 79% (3rd position) Att'nce: Reg.

Annual Cost for Study: $300 (EMDS)

Ethnic Identity: Madeshi Lower Caste

Occupation: Bus Helper

Annual Earnings: Not more then $900

Number of Children in Family: 4

 

Bhola is very good at studies. He is the second child in his family. His favorite subjects in school are science and Maths. Football is his favorite game. He also likes to read different books in his free time.

     His father is a bus helper and mother is a house wife. Bhola has one elder sister and two younger sisters. In future, Bhola wants to be a doctor because he is well aware of the poor health status of the poor people in his locality so he wants to take care of them.

 

 

 

 

ANSWER Remains in the Black!  

 

Last month, in a splendid downtown ballroom of the City Flats Hotel in Grand Rapids, David Lockington with Beth Colpean, David Hall, and Sean Ivory with his family performed at the Annual ANSWER Concert Benefit.  Sean is also conductor of the GR Youth Symphony Choir, twelve members of which sang two outstanding choral pieces, Ave Maris Stella and Hornady's Come and Sing, transforming the beautiful ballroom with its pillars and 25 foot ceilings into a basilica. The Angelic strings of Beth's harp and David Lockington's cello further reinforced the cathedral experience with his own Peace for Therese.

 

On the more secular level, David Hall, aka "marimba man", performed a complex and dazzling ragtime piece Girlfriend's Rag. The Ivory family Sean, Leah and their children Emma and Matt performed West African Drumming and Dancing. Many of the less inhibited audience members joined in to dance raucously with Leah. But Alas, not the ever staid executive director who enjoyed the outrageous sight of so many wildly flailing and bobbing.

 

The fun and good times was augmented with a lovely banquet, book & wine sales, a Nepali market, and auction items, grossing  for the night $14,000--our most successful benefit yet!  Over 120 attended--we extend our gratitude to all of you for helping us meet our administrative costs! 

 

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