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Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls
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As a result of the recent Yushu earthquake, the Chinese government did building inspections on neighboring areas. They deemed one section of our dormitories and our dining halls unsuitable and
In honor of our five year anniversary, the girls have been practicing traditional Tibetan song and dance performances for our celebration at the end of August. Stay tuned....video to follow.
October in Darlag
Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls, by Nora Bækkelund
December 20, 2011
The drive from Xining to Darlag took a day. The car moved through a landscape of vast plains and never ending river valleys. In the distance there were big, grassy hills. Sometimes we passed a herd of yaks and some tents. Other places there was construction work or mining. There were not so many towns, but there were some. It looked cold outside and the grass was going from green to something closer to brown. The sky seemed huge.We stopped at a restaurant for lunch. The waitress poured the tea as we sat down. I was glad to see that it was not butter tea. Tra Dockpo ordered something. I had no clue what it was but assumed I would like it. As we were sitting there, drinking some tea...
Summer in Darlag
Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls, by Ruiqi Tang
November 07, 2010
In Sengcham Drukmo Girls Home, I found a community where people took each day as it came. At peace with the present, the people never seemed to rush the task at hand. It seems to me that actions taken were not means to an end, but simply the end itself. This I gradually grasped and absorbed during my summer in Darlag. For twelve weeks, I volunteered to teach English at SDG Home through a grant I received from my college. My goal was to learn more about non-profits, while also gaining experience in teaching. Upon arriving, however, I soon discovered the difficulty in approaching my experience as an observer with objectives in mind. What I haven’t considered was the extent to which I would become a part of this unconventional...
Tips for other voluteers going to GSD
Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls, by Linda Lu
November 05, 2010 | 1 comment
Have fun, take a friend from the school and explore the river and the sprawling grasslands around the school. (be careful of dogs around the mountains)If you have no stops between the US and Xining make sure to exchange money ahead of time because there is no currency exchange at the Xining airport. If you have any warm clothes, coats, its always nice to leave come nice warm clothing for the girls when you leave. The same applies to children's books (in English, Chinese or Tibetan). Bring a water bottlePack warm clothes for yourself. It can snow in August :-)Think of games (simon says, etc.) that you played when you were young. These might be fun things to see if the girls might want to play. Take advantage of the...
Teacher: Dge Rgan
Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls, by Linda Lu
November 05, 2010
I had just started by Master's program in Comparative and International Education with a concentration in Women's Studies Gender Studies. I had traveled the world and contributed in service opportunities in Guatemala, Thailand, Cambodia, but I still did not have any particular regional focus for my studies. I really wanted to ground my education and my research in a context that inspired me and that I felt connected to. After a broad internet search, I stumbled onto the Omprakash website and to the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Girls Home. After a whirlwind of a few months, I had received a generous grant, pulled together a few fundraisers and was on my way to the Girls Home.As a part of the humanitarian spirit, be conscious of your insights into the Girls Home....
Drukmo Dances
Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls, by Emily Park
October 03, 2010 | 2 comments
I find it difficult to write about my experience at the Sengcham Drukmo Girls Home. Not because I have nothing to say, but rather, because it was an experience so based in emotion that words seem to fall short of grasping it's profoundness. The winter of 2010 led me to the high grasslands of Tibet, a place rich with culture, compassion and lessons to learn, yet in short supply of oxygen. Every day was a precious gift. An opportunity for 24 more hours to share life with 81 beautiful girls and friends, who never showed me anything less that the utmost kindness. Although the days took on a similar schedule, the journey was never dull. Teaching 3-5 english classes a day, I sometimes became frusturated with myself, unsure how to not...
Leaving
Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls, by Steve Sclar
September 20, 2010
“All arrivals and departures were in doubt,” wrote Peter Matthiessen as he began his soulfully journaled Himalayan trek of 1973. This came to mind often throughout my final week in Tibet, a land of people unconcerned with time. I wrote to my parents: “Getting harder and harder to think of goodbye -- therefore my mind has helpfully mushed this last "blahhhhh” into an incomprehensible amount of time which could just as easily be infinity as 4 minutes, as far as the tip of my mind is concerned. As long as I don't decipher the strange numbery symbols, I don't know.”It didn’t help that the girls constantly inquired.“Teacher, you in America [holding up fingers]?”“I don’t know,” I’d wince – my only defense mechanism.“We [crying gesture]. You happy. You mother, father happy.”“No....