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during the summer season of 2002 -- to the Japanese version -- The Virtual Foundation Japan has succeeded, with the help of the Himalayan Light Foundation of Kathmandu, in re-opening the Thangka Painting School of the Kot-timal village of the Kavre district of Nepal in the early spring o 2001. As a result, a VFJ mission was sent to the village this summer to determine the feasibility of the 2002 expanded project which will further strengthen the economic viability of the village's community development project by secring a fair and reliable international market for the thangka paintings produced locally at the school. As shown in the report of the VFJ mission this summer, the village of Kot-timal is without any modern utilities and social infrastructures including electricity and telephone. Now that the village is going to have a ground station termial to access the Inernet from after the spring of 2002, we are now planning on organizing an eco-trekking tour next summer including the students of the Ryukoku University of Kyoti, so that we can join the villagers to commomorate the beginning of a new era of global digital equalization and enpowerment. Those who are interested in the tour should contact the address below for more information.
E-Mail: Secretariat for the Promotion of a Face-to-Face Cultural Exchange Program between Japan, U.S. and Nepa
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