Children of a Lesser God

By Gelay | Published: April 2, 2009

Children of a lesser god perhaps but beautiful, hopeful souls nonetheless. The poor of Thamji and Tamey Damchu, when we meet them face to face, emerge from behind statistics and… Read more

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Portrait of An Artist

By Gelay | Published: March 31, 2009

Pema Tshering dreamed of working as an artist. He wanted it so bad, he quit his nine to five cushy job and plunged into his newfound profession. 
The 25-year-old has… Read more

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Happy Birthday Kuenga

By Gelay | Published: March 23, 2009

Everybody loves Kuenga:

Kuenga has been with us since the beginning. She grew up with VAST.
Kuenga works for the Royal Government, but she can be trusted to do stuff for VAST… Read more

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Saturday Art Classes at VAST

By Gelay | Published: March 23, 2009

Testing flickr.
VAST has a new flickr Pro account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/vast-bhutan, thanks to Tsering Dolma in NYC.… Read more

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A Journey Through VAST

By Passang | Published: March 15, 2009

Passang in 1998
Passang, 1998
Passang in 2009
Passang, 2009
It was the year 1998 and the month was April and the day was 7th when VAST was born. But I joined VAST only… Read more

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First Art Class of 2009

By Gelay | Published: March 14, 2009

36 kids turned up today, from a total of about 45 for our first class of the new session. As always, it was a pleasure to see so many new… Read more

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Help Build A House

By Gelay | Published: March 5, 2009

Help Build A House
Join VAST to help build a house for a needy family in Punakha.
>> Click here for details… Read more

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2009 Membership Registration

By Gelay | Published: March 1, 2009

brochure_2009
VAST is busy planning the year ahead. We have filled up a couple of “year planner” calendars, trying to see what we can do for 2009. Now that the schools… Read more

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Happy 29th Birthday Your Majesty

By Gelay | Published: February 21, 2009

Today we celebrated His Majesty’s 29th birthday by learning to make birthday cards. Madam Kueron taught us how to make star shaped cards that hold into neat booklets. We pasted… Read more

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Happy Birthday Asha

By kuenga | Published: February 16, 2009

For the most wonderful teacher of all…wishing you the happiest birthday.
Thank you for everything Asha. You changed our lives. You are our  living Buddha.
“The teacher who is indeed… Read more

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