© 2009 Ghar Sita Mutu
NEW!
Our director Beverly Bronson has started a BLOG about daily life at the GSM House. Check it out!
Latest Photos
Beverly is back from Nepal. Check out the latest photos.
Solar Power
Progress is being made on installing solar power at the house. An invertor is now providing a backup light for every room in the house and power for the computer as well. Beverly is working with an Italian engineer on plans for making the house self sufficient for power. It’s a big project and will involve rewiring the whole house.
Global Activism Expo
Thank you to Bill & Liz Andrews for representing us at Chicago Public Radio Worldview’s Global Activism Expo in April.
Our Annual Party
Thanks to all who attended our annual fundraiser last December at the Theatre for a New City in New York’s East Village. Click here to see photos from the party.
Robbery
Ghar Sita Mutu was robbed in December by a gang of masked men. Luckily, the small children slept through it, and thankfully no one was hurt. We lost cash, a lap top, two cameras and several mobile phones. Three men have been apprehended for
he robbery, but no property has been recovered. The International Rotary Club has agreed to help install a new security system. Many thanks to Shyam Dhaubadel from the Bhaktapur Rotary Club.
News
You can learn a lot about our history by reading our archived newsletters.
Beverly has been featured four times on Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program. Listen to two of her older interviews. (Search for “Ghar Sita Mutu” to find them.) The June 2008 interview can be found here.
We are so grateful to everyone involved in Worldview and to our many Chicago area supporters.
Beverly (far right) in Chicago Public Radio’s studio with Worldview host Jerome McDonnell and producer Nissa Thompson
Children’s Learning Centre
With part of a grant from The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation we purchased some new benches for our library as well as supplies for each of the children in our Children’s Learning Centre. Many children received books, schoolbags, crayons, pencil
cases, and sketch pads. For most of them, these were the
first gifts they’ve ever received. They were thrilled!
Partnership with Lower East Side Girls Club
Ghar Sita Mutu has teamed up with the Lower East Side Girls Club (LESGC) in New York City. Beverly has started a girls club in Nepal and has set up a shop at the LESGC building, where items made by the GSM women will be sold. Details to follow.
Girls Club has generously offered us office space in their new building when it’s completed in about 2011. We are very excited about moving all our files out of Beverly’s apartment and having a space to call our own! If anyone has space in Manhattan they could let us use in 2010, please contact us.
Dynamic Heart Project
Many thanks to the Dynamic Heart Project team who visited our house and worked with our children. This dedicated group works with traumatized children and adults to bring about psychological healing through the dramatic arts.
The Dynamic Heart Project team has done an amazing job fundraising. We are so grateful!
Read some comments from the Dynamic Heart team.
A poster by Mike Ogletree