Education For Peace - A Gift That Lasts A Lifetime

£1 Per Month To Help Transform A Life

The proposition is simple, make a real and substantive difference to the lives of children in the high Himalayas for just £1 a month. This small charity is directly supporting Ladakh Rigjung Public School in Leh, India.

Become a member of Education for Peace for £12 a year, pay as a monthly direct debit or as a one off sum.

Education for Peace is a small charity run by a group of people, people like you!. All our work is carried out on a voluntary basis, we don't have paid collectors or fund raisers. We sponsor children, raise funds, make and sell jewellery and recycle our own unwanted clutter on eBay. We also have a programme of communication with relevant large charitable organisations about the work of the school.

We welcome financial donations but we also need help to run the charity. Two examples; we are trying to find ways of getting a dentist to the school with all necessary equipment to treat the children's teeth. Secondly we are trying to find a way to replace the old antiquated bus that the school relies upon, we need willing volunteers to try and help us with these projects.

Why do we help? Because we were asked by the school's founder, a Buddhist Lama called Lama Chonet. The more support he gets the more secure the lives of his students are - and the more children he can bring out of poverty from the nomad communities of the high Himalayas. We show two pictures below that give an 'after and before' idea of what a difference the school brings to the lives of some young people. The first pictures shows the children in a normal classroom setting, the second picture a typical scene from a nomad family in the mountains in the area The difference really is that stark.

How do we know all of this? Before we decided to support this good cause we visited the school and the State of Jammu and Kashmir to see the actual conditions on the ground, we represent them as we experienced them.

If you have even a passing interest please visit the Education for Peace website or the school's own website www.rigjungpublicschool.com.

If you feel motivated to help us please get in touch. This is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a direct and immediate impact on the life of a child living in very difficult circumstances.

The children in school

Life In the nomad communities

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