We
are growing and need new accomodations for 2009
Ladakh-Hilfe/REWA
is renting a new room for therapy
Our work
in Ladakh is bearing fruit: More and more families and their needy,
disabled children seek help
Our small room for therapy in
die Moravian Mission School seemed to burst its seams this summer.
When I visited the facilities in October and November we could hardly
find room to sit. And if we sat down, we took away space for gymnastics...Therapy was reduced to minimal
movement, therapeutic material heaped along the walls and burst out
of shelves. When the weather permitted, the volunteers took able children
outside for therapy where hundreds of noisy and nosy schoolchildren
played, not a too good of an alternative.
Together with Mr. David, the leader
of REWA, we took off to look for a larger room for therapy and were
lucky to find this room in the ground floor of the LionsClub building.
This house had been erected about two years ago in the center of Leh.
The entire property is surrounded by a wall and sports a large area
where we envision a playground for the disabled. A ramp leads up to
the entrance of the ground floor. There is electricity, two toiletts
and running water (at least in the warm months of the year). At the
moment the building is only used by the dZi-Foundation for
their "Eye- und Dental Camps" (for the school children in
Leh) twice a year for about 10 days each.
As we were applying for the use
of the building we had competition: The Mahabodi-Institution also
wanted the building. They planned to open up a commercial meditation
centre. But the favour of the hour was with us: The statues of the
Lions Club agreed with our non-profit purpose of helping the special
children of Ladakh. So we rented this large and airy room for a very
good price, all together for five years.
We are very grateful for the
LionsClub to help us with this matter and we are proud to say, that
the LionsClub Ladakh will umbralla us in our endeavor to help the
disabled.
The Lions
Club building. We rent the entire ground floor.
By the end of 2008 we will move
into the new building. A very important project we have to accomplish
yet is the installation of a heating system. We got an estimate from
a local firm for a gas-water heating system: 6500 Euros. We
still have to do some fundraising to get this money.
No more MAC: The name for
the new therapy center has not been found yet, maybe REWA Centre or
REWA Ability Center.
New
living quarters for the volunteers
This summer we got notice for
the two small flats we have been renting from Mr. Gergan, Moravian
Mission School, since 2004 for the volunteers.Dolkar, our local employee,
suggested to rent rooms in her mothers guesthouse in Changspa, Leh.
Mr. David und I checked all available alternatives and finally agreed
to Dolkars idea, because the objects visited diappointed with miserable
conditions, bad location, very high rent etc.
We will rent the entire 1st floor
for 125 Euros a month. This way we will gain one single room, two
double rooms, one livingroom/office, one kitchen, two toiletts/bath
(one of them with hot shower capability) and one Ladakhi-toilett.
In front of the house there is a wonderful garden with appletrees
and flowers. The house is located on the Changspa Road, very near
to the center of town and our new therapy room in the LionsClub building.
Our new
apartement in the first floor of the house
Appletree
in the garden
Dolkar and her mother will
live with us in the house and help where help is needed. Thugjay,
Stanzin-Rigzins mother, will continue to clean the accomodations of
the volunteers. For heating we have two gas heater and one wood stove.
Electricity and water is included in the rental price.
Report
from Karola Kostial, November 12th, 2008
