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Construction Project
LNA is in the process of completing the construction of the accommodation block (including the Amchi pharmacy store) at the Lower Skara site. The nuns and local supporters have been very busy, stripping the poplar branches of bark, and 'watering' the cement columns to ensure that they do not dry out too quickly.
You can see our construction photo gallery - a pictorial history of the work this year and also for the last few years here...
Nuns and Lay women stripping poplar branches
The nuns at LNA can turn their hands to any activity: doing pujas, studying, cleaning, gardening, helping with building work, including climbing over the second floor of the accommodation block to pour water over the cement columns. All in a day's work!
 Early morning construction work!
The construction work is going well, but there have been some delays, as the weather has been very cold, and it has even rained. This has meant that the road from Manali is still not open, delaying the arrival of additional building workers, and some supplies.
It is not difficult to accept the reality of climate change, when there is snow in Ladakh in late May, and many days of grey, cloudy weather! |
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 Gardens
LNA is renting land behind Spituk Monastery, in order to grow vegetables and experiment with cultivation of medicinal plants. There is a good source of water in this area, but the soil is not so fertile.
One of LNA's hopes for 2010 is to secure funding to buy land being offered in Sabu village. This land is fertile, there is a good source of water, and the environment is pollution free. This would enable the cultivation of more vegetables, to improve the nutrition of the nuns, and also of medicinal plants. Leh is becoming increasingly polluted, and the environment at the LNA office is much more stressful than in the past.
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  Painting is one of the ten fields of study.
Here in LNA the nuns are learning painting and sculpture from a special teacher named as Smanla.
Some of them are engaging in traditional furniture painting which is very necessary for Ladakhis.
Some of them are learning to make a very special Tara statue.
We are very happy that our nuns are learning such useful skills to help LNA to become self sufficient. |
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 As part of the educational opportunities at LNA some of our nuns are learning website maintenance and support.
They have been working with a professional website developer creating this LNA website and will be responsible for maintaining it and updating the information content regularly.
It is also possible that they will be able to contribute to the self sufficiency of LNA by providing website update services to others.
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2010 is the year in which LNA start to garden for the nuns' self sufficiency. We oftenly visit the Garden to check vegetables. It is also a part of Modern Education not only learning in School but also in home.During early era, there are many lay people who wanted to serve ordinations.Because of which, the monks and nuns didn't have to worldly tasks.Now a day, we people are so selfish that we want to more resourses.That is why we imbalance ecological system having natural disasters such as Earthquake. |
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