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During the preparation for the three year retreat at Dag Shang Kagyü, maintenance, shopping, cooking, cleaning and so on. +
Red Cross in Romania, volunteer, First Aid, Dizasters +
working with local homeless shelters in Dallas Tx for 2 years & outreach services. I volunteer at the hospital to help families & patients who want Buddhist prayer +
1 year of the work needed in comunity at the Meditation House of Caneto, such as umse, cleaning and other home tasks. +
I worked for 8 moths helping in building the Meditation House as a bricklayer, maintenance, painting and other tasks. +
I work with children as an aftercare teacher.
I mentor three people in the Dharma. Two doing their nondgro and one who recently took refuge vows. +
Dalai Lama Institute of Higher Education, 6 months, 2017, Bangalore India
Worked as a volunteer teacher in the Computer Science Department
Missionaries of Charity - Mother Teresa, 3 months 2016, Kolkata, India
Worked as volunteer in “Kalighat” a home for dying people;. ▪Also worked in “Shanti Dan” a house for women with disabilities,
Vision Society Nepal, 5 months, 2015, Nepal, Kathmandu
Worked as volunteer in “New Life Children Home” ▪ Also work in the Women Center
VE Global, 6 months, 2014, Santiago, Chile
Worked as volunteer at “Posada del Niño” a home for children in social risk;
Family Services of Indiana, 5 months, 2011 Indianapolis, IN
Worked as volunteer in the Domestic Violence program
Continuing education program, 6 months, 2008, Urbana, IL
Taught Spanish in a program of continuing education for adults
Champaign County Nursing Home, 7 months, 2006, Champaign, IL
Worked as volunteer in recreational activities +
Community Kitchens Carrefour Entraide Drummond Drummondville, QC 2003-2004
Leading cooking workshops
Centre d’écoute et de prévention suicide Drummond Drummondville, QC 1999-2003
Working the phone for a help line specializing in suicide interventions +
Instead of doing military service, which was still compulsory at that time, I choose to do Civil Service and work for "Tele accueil" which is a phone number people can call if they feel lonely. In 1988 they were receiving 100,000 phone calls a year for the region of Brussels only. +
I have volunteered at Pema Osel Ling in Corralitos, California, between 2011 and 2016. I have, at times, assisted in tsok preparation and distribution at large teaching events, helped with the making of tsatsas and mantra rolling for the reliquary stupas of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche and Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and even found myself blowing leaves off roofs at one point. In summers 2014 and 2016 I was on the teams of chöppons for their Summer Retreats, focusing on preparation and execution of fire pujas offered in the context of drubchens.
From fall 2017-summer 2018, I computer-input and translated various small texts from Tibetan to English at the request and under the guidance of Semo Saraswati Rinpoche. From fall 2014 to summer 2016 I worked on a pilgrimage guidebook being produced by Phakchok Rinpoche and his wife, Khandro Norbu Gyari, focusing on Himalayan pilgrimage sites and history related to Padmasambhava. This project subsequently became nekhor.org. +
Any on-going errands in Women's three-year retreat house.
Opening ritual in Karme Ling Columbarium Shrine in the morning, +
• Meals on Wheels, Middlebury VT, August - October 2013--picked up and distributed meals to Seniors and other house-bound residents in Addison County, VT (short term because we had to return to CA)
• Sharing God's Bounty, St. Philomene, Sacramento, CA, 2014 - 2015, serving and preparing meals (From their website: "While we serve in a Catholic School gym, our ... guests and our volunteers come from all walks of life and can be members of any religious denomination or none at all. .... The only requirement for our volunteers is that they have a loving heart. St. Francis said, 'Preach the Gospel at all times and, if necessary, use words.'")
• Volunteer, Buddhist Pathways Prison Project, 2015-2016--supported senior volunteers giving Dharma talks and meditation instruction to inmates in a maximum security prison.
• Additionally, many hours spent volunteering with students and community as an extension of my profession as teacher, most notably creating and administering Multi-Cultural Fairs. +
Nothing that comes to mind just ow beyond what I just mentioned. If it can be included, I have accompanied two dying people as I was still in the robes may years ago in Malaysia. And most recently my dear mother was dying and due to my being unemployed I was able to sped the last 2 weeks of hers virtually 24/7 around her and that included feeding her, assisting in washing and newly positioning her, talking to her, being with her and reminding her of impermanence and to take refuge (in her case Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and to encourage her throughout until she drew her last breath. +
Animal shelter service and care of animals: walking them, assist with care in animal shelters and rescue centers. +
I do a lot of work on the cabins surrounding the dharma center for students of Rinpoche. My work mainly involves building and minor repairs. Our sangha also does yearly "Compassion in Action" work in the community such as road cleaning, visiting the nursing home and some school meal programs. During the 2020 pandemic, I have made and sewn into packages over 200 mantra protection rolls for distributing to our greater sangha. +
Begin of this year I have been a volonter in an ecological farm and help older people gardening. +
As a teenager I could only work for a short time (as the refugee camp was closed very soon) as child caretaker of traumatized refugee children from former Yugoslavia and was furthermore active in my schools’ Anti-fascist group, where we tried to develop awareness programs. As a volunteer I took part in community development projects and development educational workshops organized with the “Usungu Women Group” in Makueni/Kenya at the beginning of my studies. At a later point in time I participated in the establishment of a “Center for scientific debate and transcultural understanding in South Ethiopia”, At the final stage of my studies, I had been to Mali and focused more and more on the core of my objectives, development aid and especially alphabetization. +
Between 2015 and 2017 I was helping withPemaWangyalRinpoche´s Stupa Project (mostly painting tsatsas and statues) in Chanteloube, France. +
In Holy Isle for seven years during my lunch breaks I helped supervising the flower garden of the south end retreat center. +
