In August of this year we held our
first Charitable Trust Challenge where volunteers and staff had to
give alms for 5 days in a row at 5am! This beautiful ritual is called
Tak Bat and is a daily part of life for Buddhist novices and monks.
Women dress up in the traditional skirt, a sin, and drape a scarf
around their left shoulder. Women must kneel on mats while men can
stand. We dropped biscuits and rice into the novice's bowls while
they walked by barefoot and dressed in orange robes. For more
information on our Charitable Trust Challenge check out this site-
http://www.gvi.org/archives/3858
We raised 2825.50 GBP and have now
started to donate this money to some of the temples we teach at. We
have donated money to Wat Pasaviet for the novices to make their own
bricks and build a fence around the temple. We have also donated a
substantial amount of money to Wat Pha-O for the novices and monks to
dig for water out at their beautiful temple.
Thank you to everyone who donated to this wonderful cause!
Charitable Trust Donations
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