NEIO FUNDRAISER – TIN RESTAURANT 937 HOWARD ST. SF
Join us on April 30, 2011 at Tin Restaurant (937 Howard Street between 5th and 6th Street) from 5 – 8 PM for an evening of laughter and drinks in support of a good cause. NEIO is completing our second school, Nurbuling School, after successfully completing our first school, Nakote School.
Tin Restaurant has generously donated their time and space. All proceeds from the bar will benefit NEIO.
Come and meet some of the newest members of NEIO and see how you can make an impact on the lives of children.
Refreshments will be available at the bar. Vietnamese hors d’oeuvres will be served.
This is an open event, so please feel free to invite and bring your friends. The more, the merrier.
Please check out our facebook event page.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195131823861539
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The Nurbuling School, established in 1991, serves as the only source of education for pre-school to eighth grade in the Kharka village in Nepal’s Himalayan valleys.
The Nurbuling School serves as the only source of formal education for the Hyolmos community of Kharka Dandha, Nepal. The Hyolmos, an indigenous ethnic minority group, has been recorded to occupy the Nepali Himalayan region north of Katmandu over eight centuries ago. Kharka Dandha located in the distant foothills of the Himalayan regions. This involves a six hour bus ride from Kathmandu and another three hour hike from the nearest accessible road.
The peripheral village of Kharka Dandha resided a limited number of remaining indigenous Hyolmo communities which usually fails to meet the bare essential living standard of running water or electricity.
The school benefits over 100 students within the village population of 750 where half of the village population is under the age of 18.