Today I met the most amazing lady. Her name is Penpa Negi. She is Tibetan and lives in India. The photo to the left is one of her and her mother. She and her brother, Lama Tenzin, a Tibetan monk, rescue children from the boarder of the Himalayas/Nepal/Tibet and bring them to safety. Not only do they save the lives of these children that would other wise live in great poverty (or worse, be picked up by the Maoist terrorists), but they give them an education and the chance to live a life of dignity and purpose.
Penpa, Lama Tenzin, along with a group of eleven children recently took a 30 day journey through the Himalayas to reunite with the children with their parents after seven years of separation...but while they were there, they rescued a baby that was left to die because she was born with a cleft pallat. This baby, Tendral Metok (Harmony Flower) has now received a surgery to fix her cleft pallet from Operation SMILE in Atlanta.
I am so impressed and inspired...I wish you all could meet her...maybe the Nimitz students will interview her for their radio show!!!
To help Penpa and Lama Tenzin help more kids, donate to CED:
http://himalayankids.org/ced/oldweb/index.html
Kelly Sullivan Walden
2/3/09
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