This newsletter is the most difficult written to date. Some who will come on the 8th of July to our annual fundraiser garden party have supported Room To Learn since we began in 2016. Our hearts are overwhelmed with the caring love and dedication you have all given to make Room To Learn a success, bringing help & hope to so many poor [...]
Newsletter Winter 2022 Wishing you a blessed Christmas. May you and those you love, be safe and warm. May the true spirit of Christmas resonate in your hearts, bringing peace, love and unity to our troubled world. When Christmas comes families meet to celebrate and importantly, we choose to place the children centre stage. Children are our future, we need to cherish them, they are [...]
Ann and Brian went to visit our Children in Kalimpong. This is Ann’s record of their trip. We left the UK on the last day of October and arrived in Kalimpong on the 2nd of November. The 40-mile trip from the plains up into the hills was, as always, difficult. Landslides of boulders and soil are common at this time of the year. Some roads [...]
In 2022 RTL entered its 7th year. Having dealt with political protests, military curfews, earthquakes, rice shortage for our mums, Covid-19 closing schools and its travel restrictions, 2022 took us into a new exciting phase. During 2021 we began working with three new schools in Kalimpong and at the start of the 2022 academic year, we started 45 children in nursery and kindergarten - more than [...]
In 2016 by Divine Providence a group of friends met to form a charity - Room To Learn (RTL). Six years on RTL have helped over one hundred little girls and boys. How? By providing free pre-school facilities to children from the poorest families in Kalimpong. Living on £1.50 per day, like the two families shown here. There is no [...]
She did it. You can watch her flight here: The donation page https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jennifer-maxwell2?utm will remain open for a short while longer.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]