Christmas Newsletter 2023 Our Founders, And & Brian, have visited Kalimpong every year since starting Room To Learn, other than during the pandemic years. 2023 should have been no exception but sadly Ann was (re)diagnosed with cancer early in the year and is no longer able to travel or write the newsletters. Brian is busy being with, and caring for, [...]
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 2016 a group of friends met to form the charity - Room To Learn (RTL). Six years on RTL have helped over a 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, we have a mother with her two small children living in a [...]
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 [...]
“The importance of foundational skills: There is a mountain of evidence on the benefits of education. For individuals and families, education leads to higher productivity and earnings, poverty reduction, higher rates of employment, better health outcomes, and greater civic engagement. For societies, education contributes to faster innovation and growth, better-functioning institutions, greater intergenerational social mobility, higher levels of social trust, and a lower likelihood of conflict. [...]
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 [...]