by Laxmi Aryal | Jun 15, 2014 | Blog, General, Awareness
My Father the Pioneer As we celebrate Father’s Day in the US, I wanted to talk about Nepali fathers, especially my own Father Kedar Nath Acharya. While Nepali people celebrate Father’s Day on a different day, called Kushe Aausi or Pitritarpani Aausi, our family...
by Laxmi Aryal | May 29, 2014 | Event, Fundraising, Blog
This month we had the privilege of attending an event organized by high school girls at Swickley Academy when they put together a fundraising dinner to support the girls of Rukmini Foundation. I was so amazed how these girls were involved in global issues...
by Laxmi Aryal | Jun 4, 2013 | Collaboration, Event, Blog
You may recall that our Program Manager, Nabin wrote an article about a great program called SAYS (South Asia Youth Summit), which is a USAID supported program where students from South Asian countries like Maldives, Sri Lanka and Nepal get an opportunity to visit...
by Laxmi Aryal | May 9, 2013 | Event, Blog
Today is Mothers’ Day in Nepal. You may be wondering if we are a little early with this post, but In Nepal this celebration falls on the last day of the dark fortnight in the month of Baishakh which falls in April-May. The actual day changes according to US...
by Laxmi Aryal | Apr 4, 2013 | Awareness, Blog, Program
In my last post, I talked about our journey back to Nepal and how we got to celebrate the anniversary of the foundation with the Rukmini Scholars. If you have not read that already, please give it a look. After we celebrated the event, handed out the new library to...
