It is with great sadness that we must now let you know that we have taken the difficult decision to close Lotus Flower Trust as of the 31st December this year.
John Talks to Bharti
Meet Bharti Saini, the inspiration behind the JSR Special School Uttarakhand, funded by William Grant & Sons Inc, Delhi Duty Free and many other generous sponsors. John talks to her in this uplifting video about life at JSR and training to be an artist at Art School in Nanital.
Basgo Bears Fruit Thanks to Water Supply
It's so gratifying to see our projects literally and metaphorically bearing fruit! Seeing water being piped to Basgo Nunnery in remote Ladakh after more than 10 years without any, is nothing short of miraculous. Thanks to funds raised through last year's #everestchallenge2021, a bespoke water system has now been installed on site which means more than 50 nuns and destitute girls are now fully self-sufficient…
Our Buildings are Made to Endure
The new Hostel, toilet and washing facilities at The Garden of Wisdom School close to Shushakul Monastery in Ladakh are coming on a treat and weather permitting will be completed by the end of the year. Thanks to a private sponsor, this will enable more destitute children, including girls, to live and study at the school…
Help Fund Second Floor at Paravour!
Fantastic to see the second floor taking shape and new toilet block underway at the Paravour School for Dalit children in Tamil Nadu, built with funds raised by Lotus Flower Trust.
This means that 57 new children have already enrolled at the school, bringing the total number up to 132 and continuing to increase, enabling more children to break the cycle of poverty in this extremely deprived area…
The Benefits of Supporting a Small Charity
To celebrate #SmallCharitiesWeek, we thought we would tell you about just some of the benefits of supporting small…
Bigger isn’t always better!
Small charities are specialists, working in a particular field, in our case addressing poverty, education, special needs and conservation.
This means we’re experts in what we do and because we’re a small team we can respond quickly without getting bogged down with all the bureaucracy and politics of larger organisations…
New Kitchen at Sumoor Anganwadi
Lotus Flower Trust promised the Indian Child Welfare Society and Education Department to help fund the building of 30 Anganwadi, or Kindergartens, in remote regions of Ladakh. This is to help promote early years education and establish a culture of 'going to school' when previously opportunities for children here were limited to working on the land.
Hostel at Shushakul Underway
Named by the office of The Dalai Lama, The Garden of Wisdom School is very special to us as is one of Lotus Flower Trust's very first projects. Built for 50 children from Shushakul Village in remote Ladakh, back in 2009, and run by monks from Shushakul Monastery, the children from poor farming villages who school here would otherwise not have received an education…
TFWA Care Funds Education for Girls
We are so delighted to share these images of the recently completed kitchen and dining room at the hostel for girls attending Nyoma Middle School in the remote Changthang Plain of Ladakh. This project was generously funded by TFWA Care. Toilets and washing facilities were also donated by the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council.
Extension Means Education for More!
A quick update on the new extension at Shri Ram Vidyamandir Inter College in Almora, Uttrakhand... Generously funded by Delhi Duty Free, local labourers have been busy building 4 additional classrooms and improved bathrooms, now nearly completed.