Root of the association by the word of the president:

 

NAMASTE!

A glance exchanged, two reciprocal smiles, three words spoken… ..

That is enough to turn one life upside down …… .. even two lives.

Bijay crossed my path in October 2005, and since then our lives have changed.

He was living with his uncle in Kathmandu to complete his school cycle.

Very quickly, he brought me to his village, Thulo Parsel, south-east of the capital Kathmandu. It is a village of the Tamang ethnic group…. and I now spend at least a week there a year to greet Bijay's family, the other villagers, and to recharge my batteries in the heart of other values so far removed from our current world.

Thulo Parsel is a typical village: for ten years it has been the

terminus of a bus line that connects it to the distant capital

of 170 km… in 6 hours.

 

The habitat is very scattered on a steep hillside,

located at 800 meters above sea level. It has about 3,000

inhabitants, mostly farmers, very few

craftsmen (carpenters, blacksmiths, basket makers, weavers),

a few traders (new!), teachers,

whose activities complement the work of the

Earth.

 

Visiting Thulo Parsel is a total immersion on a

planet so different! Nothing in common with the way of life

western. Everything seems simple, despite a frugal and

arduous life. All activity is focused on immediate and primary concerns: where to sleep? what to eat Here, the word yield is untranslatable: the population eats the products of their piece of land.

 

But this seemingly peaceful existence can suddenly collapse: the two tremors

earthworks in April and May 2015 cracked houses and schools, and razed the village's only lodge.

All my friends then mobilized to help our Nepalese friends, in an emergency.

Quickly a longer term action was envisaged: participating in the reconstruction of a school.

Bijay then offered to help the communal school in the village opposite, in Kudari, because this

establishment had suffered much greater damage than that of the school of Thulo Parsel.

Since October 2015 I visit this school every year, its teachers, its students

and their parents. French friends accompany me to each of these rich meetings

of emotions.

It is simply a matter of providing help, just a helping hand to revive hope.

and start rebuilding the school.

It's so little for us, but so much for my Nepalese friends!

For example, € 12 can buy a 25kg bag of rice sufficient to feed a family

of five people for a week.

For example, € 10 can cover the tuition fees of a student for a month.

 

This is the origin of our association Yeti Tamang Schools.

This is our dream.

This is our humanist project.

Our motivation? Our sun? The smile of Nepalese schoolchildren on each of our visits.