After experiencing such poverty in both Bodhgaya and Sarnath, Buddha’s Smile School was a completely enriching and perfect experience. Meeting Rajan, we spoke of love and in her I saw a heart too big to fit in her chest. Sure enough her generosity of spirit and deep love for all the children (including her desire [...]
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From Kolkata I took a train fifteen hours west to Varanasi (India’s most holy city) where Rajani Kaur and her husband, Sukhdev, met me at the train station and took me to their apartment above her Amistad International funded school for 200 children from the slums. I awoke the next morning to witness Rajan’s students, [...]
I first met Rajan Saini and her husband Sukhdev in 1999 when they were living in Ashapoor and I was visiting the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath. At that time, that which is now the Buddha’s Smile School was a bare patch of brown land, on the far side of which were [...]
The first thing that strikes me about this school is the name. What indeed would leave the Buddha Smiling? It would be the relinquishment of ignorance and suffering it would be compassion and wisdom….and succinctly, it is all the characteristics that define the philosophy of the Buddha Smile School and its founder Rajan whose instinct [...]
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Our mission is to teach and nurture hope for some of the world's poorest and most dis- advantaged children. We are a non- denominational, non-profit school located in Varanasi, India.- Connecting with New York
- Thank you Lotte
- Middle School 2008 Group
- Living with stigma in India
- Reaching the marginalized
- Thank you Geir Davidsen & thank you Etne, Norway
- South Asia told to fight dire toddler malnutrition
- India still home to largest illiterate population
- Thank you Lisa & Phillip, Donna & Debbie
- Not just school, an appreciation for learning
- Karen Kotoske: Lotte Cherin is a very special individual who's found a way of enormously impacting the way programs for the impoverished can work more efficiently.
- erica harris » Archive » varanasi, india: [...] at night, balancing precarious electric structures on their heads, for a very low wage: This is Rajan Kaur, the founder of BSS, contemplating g
- Dana: Thank you, Geir, for all you do! You have helped the children of BSS enormously with your efforts. It is very inspiring top me that you can make such
Annual Examination, April 2010
Poems for Peace
Ganga Clean Up
New Uniforms, Yeah!
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