by Nabin Aryal | Jul 2, 2014 | Awareness, Blog, Event
Special Didi Program: The hero lies in you Visit of CNN Hero, Pushpa Basnet “I feel a little awkward distributing these Certificate of Completion to the Rukmini Scholars because I myself did not pass School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exams!” was the first thing Ms....
by admin | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, News, Newsletter
A Day to Celebrate Graduating Scholars It wasn’t long ago that we had a scholarship ceremony for the first 10 girls, and now after 3 years, we are so proud to be able to hand 8 of them a certificate saying that they have passed the SLC Exams and are now...
by Nabin Aryal | Jun 24, 2014 | Program, Blog, Event, Collaboration
Eight Rukmini Scholars Take the Big Exam As you may have read from our previous emails and posts on Social Media, 8 of our scholars recently took the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) Examinations. SLC is the National level Board Exam and passing this exam is the only...
by Laxmi Aryal | Jun 24, 2014 | Fundraising, Blog, Event
On Monday, June 16, we held a very different type of fundraising event than we have ever done before. We served Nepali food at a local Pittsburgh restaurant called Bar Marco. The event was known as No Menu Monday, which is a great concept of Bobby Fry the owner of the...
by Laxmi Aryal | Jun 15, 2014 | Awareness, General, Blog
My Father the Pioneer As we celebrate Father’s Day in the US, I wanted to talk about Nepali fathers, especially my own Father Kedar Nath Acharya. While Nepali people celebrate Father’s Day on a different day, called Kushe Aausi or Pitritarpani Aausi, our family...
