Matthew Ooi & Ng Jun Qing
Project Nalanda Leaders
Project Nalanda serves Namdapha Nalanda Nature School located in Mpen II, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The project has always been focused on the education of the Chakma children to empower them for the future. Unlike previous years, our project was impacted in an interesting way due to the travel restrictions imposed because of COVID-19.
After hearing the needs of the Chakma community, our team of 15 student-teachers decided to plan a series of local fundraising activities to support them. Alongside NIE’s 2nd OCIP group, Project Love Sikkim, we carried out a bake sale, merchandise sale and virtual concert.
As meetings had to be conducted online this year, we were faced with unforeseen/unprecedented challenges that the team had to overcome.
Overall, the team worked really well together despite the challenges and limitations. We were thrilled to have been able to plan and execute three successful fundraising activities to financially help the Chakma community tide over the COVID-19 period as their livelihoods were affected by the pandemic.
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