CSC RE Team Project

Our Community Service Committee and RE group have teamed up on an exciting project in 2010 sponsoring 2 scholarships for poor children in India and Nepal to attend private schools.  The projects also allow the children to learn about the other’s customs and traditions and keep them personally engage in each others lives through letter and video exchanges.  The children from the RE group are earning money to fund one child on their own  from lemonade, bake and garage sales.  The CSC is sponsoring another child from our annual budget,

AnswerNepal

BAUUC children's RE lemonaid sale.

Sabitri in her school uniform.

The child we are sponsoring through the AnswerNepal program (www.answernepal.org) is a 10-yr old girl named Sabitri Adhikari.  As a sponsor, we are participating directly in the welfare of this child.  Answer will keep us informed of Sabitri’s progress, explain customs, traditions, relationships, etc...  Our RE kids are eager to learn about the life of Sabitri and she is also interested in us.  Sabitri already wrote us once discussing her life in Nepal. Sabitri’s best subject is science and she wants to be a science teacher in the future. Her best sport is skipping. Sarah and Olivia Halprin representing our church sent Sabitri a wonderful letter along with artwork giving her some insight into life in Texas.

ANSWER = American Nepali Student and Women's Educational Relief. This program was established in Nepal by Earle Canfield in 2000 and now sponsors more than 500 children in 100 schools in all parts of the country. Earle will be visiting BAUUC late in 2010 to share his passion for this program.  The organization is non-religious, non-partisan dedicated to helping bright but low caste and impoverished people in Nepal. ANSWER finds sponsors in the US and matches them with students. Sponsors pay tuition for their student to attend a private school. The end result is hoped to change the face and future of Nepal with educated young women (and men) who stay in their country to make a difference.

Future-For-Kids

We are also sponsoring an anonymous child in the Future-For-Kids project in Vrindavan, India, started by Swami Balendu in 2007 (http://www.jaisiyaram.com/kindergarten.htm).  Swami Balendu and his family have dedicated their life and work to help these children.  The aim of their institution is to give a better future to children of poor families in India by providing education.  They recently visiting our church in June 2010 where Julie and Jeff exchanged info with them about how each set of children can learn from each other.  Our first event is exchanging videos for multi-culture week each showing a traditional dance (our kids will do the cotton-eyed-joe).