The Miracle School

They say things about pictures-how they say a thousand words, can sail a ship, inspire, teach, reach out to touch someone. Here is a visual tour of a very special school I visited in Kathmandu the other day-in one of the poorer of the neighborhoods. You remember Slum Dog Millionaire, the box office smash hit about Indian slum children and their challenges, from being trafficked to horrible people who treat children like livestock, and beggar kids trying to survive on the streets? (click to read more) It's real, and not just a movie. Here, some really amazingly compassionate women are trying to help in their corner of one if the world's poorest countries:

Mala Kharel greets me at the door of Bal Sarathi school on a rainy monsoon day in Kathmandu

Nursery School with some of the younger ones

Polite stares as I enter an upper grade class

An impromptu lesson on "Where is America?" ("Is the sun sleeping there now?")

Please click on above photo to hear these precious children share: "What do you want to be when you grow up?

PLEASE! Take two more minutes to watch the very moving, very touching video on the link below, made by my Nepali filmmaker friend Rajendra Pandey. It's excellent and really tells the whole story of this "miracle":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th13vNo810g&feature=plcp

NAMASTE FRIENDS!!