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Preface
Dear Sir / Madame,
dear Rokpa friends
2012 was a full, intensive year for ROKPA – and for me.
The emotional highlight was definitely the Dance Tour
with ten kids from the ROKPA Children`s Home in
Kathmandu. We toured Europe – starting in Switzerland
– over a time span of almost three months. Wherever we
were: those young artists – all of them ex-street kids –
literally enchanted their audience with their talent and
their joie de vivre.
Another positive aspect in 2012 was that we were able to
purchase a new parcel of land in Kathmandu. We had
planned to do so for quite some time as it combines our
projects in a truly wonderful way. It allows us to expand
our Women`s Workshop, thus offering more space for
more education and more workplaces. The demand is
pressing as the need for education and work as means to
earn money is constantly growing. Every new employment
opportunity counts. We support women who
previously lived on the street and train them to work as
seamstresses, enabling them to support themselves.
In our second key geographic area – the Tibetan areas of
China – the living conditions also remain difficult.
The economic boom along the Chinese coast is very far
away and not at all tangible in the Tibetan highlands.
People there continue to make a living through crop
cultivation and animal farming. Schools and medical aid
is sparsely spread.
There`s still a lot to do in the upcoming years.
Let me take this opportunity to thank you from the
bottom of my heart.
Yours, Lea Wyler
Vice President and Co-Founder ROKPA
Zurich, June 2013
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