Bring A Friend To School Day Aug 15th

15th of August 2009 the 62nd year of our independence. Last year the children and teachers of Riverdale had started the idea of sharing whatever we have on this day. This year thanks to a friend Kendra Ravi Shrestha, the children were able to do the same again. They were asked to bring a friend each to the school. The friend was a child from their own villages attending a Government run school. The children were given notebooks and stationary as independence day gifts. After a game of football and lunch they went back home all smiles.

The Riverdale children are taught to share and think of others just as friends of the school so far away think of them. As for the guest children they had fun too.

Thanks Kendra from all of us.

Update on Save the Pangolin Campaign - August 2009

SEMINAR ON CHINESE PANGOLIN BY

FOREST DEPARTMENT, DARJEELING

Thanks to the support of all participants in Riverdale's "Save the Pangolin" Campaign in Pokhriabong over the last two years, the Forest Department in darjeeling is holding its first ever seminar for its officials at Manibhanjeyang on 03 August 2009. The aim of the seminar is to educate the forest department officials about the Chinese Pangolin and its endangered status. Hopefully this will be the harbinger of positive change and affirmative action towards the conservation of the Pangolin and its habitat in the Darjeeling hills.

As posted earlier, this year's annual run and awareness campaign will aim at distributing CFLs to homes in Pokhriabong. In addition to energy conservation through replacement of conventional incandescent bulbs with CFLs, the drive is to motivate locals to participate in Pangolin conservation and assist by providing timely information on captured animals. We have begun to receive enthusiatic support for this campaign. We thank you and hope to have more of you joining hands with us.