During the pandemic, charities have faced many challenges. For us, the Happy Days nursery in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India remains closed due to lockdown. Room to Learn have adopted home teaching methods for boys and girls whose families live below the poverty line (BPL families live on less than £1.50 per day). Our teaching staff are putting together weekly learning programmes for the children to use [...]
The Trustees of Room to Learn thank all those (see below) who have come forward to help us. The Sai Ram Trust “Love all - Serve all”. Without the Sai Ram Trust funds, we would not have been able to expand and grow. Their kindness meant we could take in more ‘below the poverty line’ children (BPL) . They have supported us financially every year and, [...]
As you can see from the letter above Baroness Caroline Cox has agreed to become a patron to Room to Learn. Baroness Cox is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords and was created a life peer in 1982. She was the deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005. She is the founder and CEO of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid [...]
Alen Rai was a pupil at Happy Days Nursery and after two years he moved on to St. Augustine's School. His first year has been badly affected by the pandemic and he was only able to physically attend for four weeks before the school was closed. The rest of his work has had to be done at home but as you can see from his [...]
On 2nd of March, our school year began well, with 24 new pupils resulting from Ann's leafleting and visits to the nearby Bear's Den region (about 8km away from Happy days School) and Khop Mountain. This intake included 3 sets of twins! Looking to the future, Brian and Ann used our donated bus to visit the Peshok Tea Gardens. The plantation has been abandoned and all [...]
Three of our trustees, Ann (CEO), Brian and Jenny have just gone out to Happy Days Nursery. I will let you know how they got on when they come back. They have a lot planned to prepare for the start of the new school year on 2nd March. They are currently helping to ready the classrooms. Brian is constructing some additional classroom furniture and building and [...]
Festive greetings to all our wonderful supporters. Picture thirty little boys and girls aged between 21⁄2 to 5 yrs, each clutching a large bag, half their size, toddling home, their tummy's full of chocolate cake and moo-moos. In their bag, they have a cuddly toy, a colouring book, a woollen jumper, hat, gloves, small toy and sweets. [...]
On August 3rd Ann and Brian opened their home and garden for Room to Learn UK’s main fund-raising event. It ensures that Happy Days nursery remains open. We recruit boys and girls from poverty-stricken families and our charity provides a free pre-school learning environment for these little ones. Over eighty people - families, couples, young and old walked down the leafy Cotswold village lane. The [...]
The Empowerment of Women project begun by Sabrata Manna had lapsed, so Jenny and Corinna put forward a project for the mums to embroider linen bags, to be sold in England. Some of the mothers sit in the school grounds and embroider the linen bags. They chat and get to know each other, enjoying the sunshine, and happy and proud that their little ones [...]
July 2019 NEWSLETTER: Greetings to all our wonderful supporters. In the far Northeast corner of India, ‘Happy Days' nursery nestles in the foothills of Kalimpong. Here thirty-one girls and boys aged 2 ½ to 4 ½, all from families below the poverty line, living on less than £1.20 per day, are SUPPORTED TOTALLY THROUGH YOUR GENEROUS DONATIONS. Indeed, it is [...]