Eighth Ladakh Festival: October 24, 2010

Location:

Rosenstock-Huessy House
Hagestraat 10
2011 CV Haarlem

www.rosenstock-Huessy-huis.nl

Updates 19/10/2010

BENEFIT DINNER AND NOTIFICATION AL 21
THERE IS

The buildings of the Ladakh Nuns Association affected by the cloudburst and flood. Here is their report.

English is your mother language and you like to help the nuns by translating texts on this site? Do you have some computer experience?

After the disaster in Ladakh, most tourists left as soon as possible. Some of them, however, remained to help with cleaning up the mud, searching for missing persons and restoring roads and bridges.

Here is

  Photos: Nana Ziesche

In recent days, the DFLN repeatedly was called with questions about people in Ladakh, or about nuns who are sponsored.

First, our Vice Chair Maria van der Westen and her husband

During the past few days disasters happened in the area between Pakistan and Tibet: because of cloudbursts in the normally dry area of the Himalayas, heavy mud streams came thundering down the

Despite the recession, the tip jar for Gephel monastery in Ladakh again well filled.

The guests throughout the season gave the large amount of € 980, -. This is a welcome addition to the study

Sunday, May 16 Anneke van der Heide and Ellen Poelen successfully finished the Marike Walk in Nijmegen. This 10 km run brought in the first € 400, -  for the prayer wheel for the nuns of Nyerma.

Ellen Poelen and Anneke van der Heide go walk on the Sunday, May 16 the Marikenloop in Nijmegen. They will run 10 km. They do this for a prayer wheel for the nuns in Nyerma, Ladakh.

We are looking for more volunteers to August and September in Nyerma the " Home Stay With Nuns 'run.