On their safe return to England, Mike and his friends set about raising a great sum of money, which finally totalled £40,000, to help rebuild the temple in Simagaon and other schools elsewhere in Nepal. The accompanying picture is of one of the two new schools built so far with the money he and his friends raised. The poster reads 'Thank you to Alan, Oliver and Mike'. Our WI members, who had contributed to the fund, were very pleased to see the concrete results of how the money had been used.
We were very pleased to welcome back, as speaker, Mike Ritson who had previously talked to us about trekking in Nepal. He had since been back to Nepal in May last year and had been caught in the terrible earthquake. He and his two friends had just arrived at a village called Simagaon, and settled in when their world was turned upside down, literally, as the whole village was violently shaken and almost all the buildings were destroyed. Mike spoke most movingly of what it was like to live through such an experience, and the terrible destruction suffered by the village, including the total flattening of a newly built school and the village temple. Luckily nobody had been seriously hurt.
On their safe return to England, Mike and his friends set about raising a great sum of money, which finally totalled £40,000, to help rebuild the temple in Simagaon and other schools elsewhere in Nepal. The accompanying picture is of one of the two new schools built so far with the money he and his friends raised. The poster reads 'Thank you to Alan, Oliver and Mike'. Our WI members, who had contributed to the fund, were very pleased to see the concrete results of how the money had been used.
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