Two Amazing Young Visionaries!

This past weekend we had the opportunity to travel to Hanover, NH to meet with a young Nepalese student studying engineering at Dartmouth College. Avishek Shrestha is a Davis United World College Scholar who spent the first two years at Williams College where he wrote a proposal for a Davis Project for Peace and was awarded a$10,000 2012 prize for his venture entitled Connecting Nepal: Wireless Education in Arughat. What an amazing young man!

Recently HFL has been recognized and singled out by Ofhani Shaun Mandiwana, another UWC Davis Scholar. While studying at the College of Idaho, Ofhani discovered our website and expressed an interest in writing a proposal benefiting VMS. He would like to endorse building a VMS addition allowing him to create a computer workshop opportunity for eager ARV adolescents who are anxious to build their futures through enhanced education opportunities. WOW!

 

While Ofhani’s idea is ambitious, he DID encourage us to revisit VMS plans to build an eco-friendly school addition that has been a longtime dream. The addition is not too far out of the realm of possibilities since we have a quarter of the funds needed already saved and readily available. The total building project will cost approximately $40,000 USD. We already have $10,000 promised and now must think of creative ways to secure the remaining funds. Of course we urge our enterprising followers to think of creative ways and means for us to find these funds: perhaps  ‘partners’ who are willing to raise a quarter of the total amount as we did ( Churches ? Service groups? Work colleagues?)? A group of ambitious students who would like to have their School or Group name engraved on a Dedication Plaque? A Grantor or a business that would consider a matching funds initiative?

In any case, we will continue to encourage, support and assist Ofhani in his quest to seek this year’s Davis Project for Peace prize in the interest of educating our ARV workshop students. We will make the ‘education’ piece of this project work even if it means a temporary location. As Avishek so aptly stated, “….education is transformative in ways that can inspire and lead to positive change in a society.” And might we add…. “in the world”

Please feel free to contact us if you’d like more information on Avishek’s project, the Davis Scholar program and/or the Davis Project for Peace.

We also have information about the incredible ec0-friendly building process offered through the company EcoSteps.

We will keep you informed of Ofhani’s progress, our VMS building progress and our hopes to assist them with a budding ‘fund raising’ opportunity our followers will appreciate. Please contact us with YOUR funding ideas!