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In 2014, I volunteered for one year at NZRDA, an institution that provides equine therapy for people with physical disabilities.
In 2017, I volunteered for one month at Thosamling Nunnery (Dharamsala, India), working as a cook and babysitter for young nuns.
From 2019 to 2023, I volunteered with Coletivo Grãos de Luz, a group focused on the study of medicinal plants and native Brazilian knowledge. The collective distributes herbal medicine and basic food baskets to under-resourced individuals and communities. +
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 +
I offered community work multiple times when I was a medical student in Viçosa/MG, Brazil: advocacy for public health policies, support groups for mental health, health fairs, educational materials and events. +
Volunteer Work:
2018: Fundraising +
Asociación Madre Tierra - Loreto Perú
Humanitarian Assistance for Urarinas Communities - Crowdfunding Campaign Team. may 2020
Water Filters for San Antonio - Crowdfunding Campaign Team. aug-oct 2017
Proyecto Centro Comunitario de Medicina Tradicional Cocamillo. Founding Team Member 2014
Friends for Nepal - Dharamghar Dolakha Nepal
A “Herbal Way Of Treatments - How To Take Benefits From Plants” Book comprehensive layout.mar-jun 2016
“Community Health Clinic Dharamghar Dolakha” volunteer on social work
Inti-Reevolucion
Project Presentation in Tawantinsuyu Hatun Tinkuy/III Encuentro de los Cuatro Suyus. 2013 Comprehensive information layout. ap-nov 2013
APCA Permanent assembly of the Comahue for the Water
Active Member 2010-2012
AEC - TEA Associação Bahia Brasil. Volunteer on Social Work, may 2010
La Trama - documentation center for women Neuquén Argentina. Volunteer receptionist. 2005 +
Yes, of course. All this info is in my curriculum. +
I have worked more that eight years now as a registered nurse case manager in community home health here in Santa Cruz. I work closely with social workers and other clinicians such as physical therapists. Through the course of my work, I see many clients repeatedly and am often one of the few or only people helping to connect them to the resources they need for their health care and ability to stay living as independently as possible. +
I have also published translations on various topics with outfits like Lotsawa House, Samye Translations, and Khyentse Vision Project. +
I also completed some court mandated community service in or around 2010 at Walter Hoving Home in Garrison N.Y. ( a Christian home for struggling women). I performed community service there for about 3 months or more. This included picking up trash on the side of the road, helping to organize and run programs as well helping to move furniture etc. In addition, I did a few weeks of community service at the SPCA in Hyde Park N.Y. while attending college. +
I take care of guests and students visiting Ser Cho Ling visiting from all over the world. We have a beautiful temple which is also under my care. Before I moved to United States, I have served my sangha at Benchen Poland Retreat Center. We organized annual visits of Tibetan teachers including Tenga Rinpoche, Khandro Rinpoche and Sangye Nyempa Rinpoche. +
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From 1977 till 20002, I participated in the Gurdjieff Work and offered many hours of volunteer service. The work center was located on a forty acre farm in Aurora, Oregon known as Two Rivers Farm. There were so many ways to practice the teachings and offer service. I would go wherever help was needed. For years, I planned and cooked meals for 70 or more people on Sundays. I worked in the vegetable gardens, picked cherries and nuts. I did sheetrock work and painting at times. I worked in the publishing aspect, learning the art of binding books by hand. I was one of two people in charge of childcare for years. I also volunteered at the Two Rivers Farm School from 1984 until 1991. My participation there was a lifestyle, one that I am forever grateful. +
I built two stupas at Rigdzin Ling from 1995-1996 and helped in the remaining 6 stupas until 1998.
I also helped build four retreat cabins and a retreat temple dedicated to Vimalamitra and the Chetsun Nyingtig.
I built a shrine for that temple and did all of the artwork as well as helped build the life-size statue of Vimalamitra. +
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. +
Since the Pandemic breakout, I have been helping to mitigate the COVID 19 crisis as a physician and an assistant in Buenos Aires Argentina.
I helped in many ways, from doing triage for ill patients at primary health care clinics, to putting vaccines and bandage wounds especially when we were short-staffed.
I went door-to-door in the most poorest and worst-struck neighbourhoods looking for possible infected patients to take them to testing and treating facilities. I also handed out food and water supplies for families to be able to withstand the pandemic in their houses. I also helped, when necessary, to relocate people to designated hotels in order to stop the chain of infection in the place where they lived. This is because families had to share communal bathrooms and kitchens with many others.
Besides participating in the process of assessing infrastructure, health and living conditions of people with needs I have also participated in the testing teams for COVID-19 +
Begin of this year I have been a volonter in an ecological farm and help older people gardening. +
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Any on-going errands in Women's three-year retreat house.
Opening ritual in Karme Ling Columbarium Shrine in the morning, +
Other than this, I have during my time at RYI served two consecutive years as student society chief representative. In this role, I have been a support for students, organized events such as end of semester dinners and so forth, as well as facilitating a sanskrit chanting group with materials prepared by me and a few other friends. Moreover, I have been engaged in tutoring local Nepali professionals in English, and currently teach Tibetan to a Taiwanese monastic aspiring to be a Tibetan-Chinese translator in the Kumārajīva project. +
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lawer services for who no have money
free massage
free yoga class for who no have money +
From 2012-2015, I was one of the co-founders and organizers of the Bay Area Public School, an experiment in free education. Since its inception, we hosted a plethora of courses in a number of discourses, including ongoing language classes in Attic and Homeric Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Italian through the works of Dante and many other courses with ride ranging subject matter, though predominantly leaning towards Language, Philosophy, and Poetry. We designed and hosted two summer schools, a monthly reading series, as well as offering our space free of charge to art collectives, visiting lecturers, and local groups. My most recent as well as my most involved curation through the school was a collaborative effort in honoring the life's work of one of the most prolific and esteemed modern female poets, Alice Notley. Myself and co-curators raised money to fly her from Paris to Oakland to participate in the symposium. The weekend was devoted to thinking through her oeuvre, with writers from around the country participating in panels and discussions. To fundraise for the event we designed, printed and published a new book of her poetry, "Manhattan Luck." In addition, I directed a play of hers, "Anne's White Glove," staged only once, twenty years prior.
In summary, my community work has grown out of my devotion to the arts and freedom of thought. I am a poet, photographer, and director, as well as a voracious autodidact. I have been very passionate about creating spaces in the world where the devotion of "learning for learning's sake" can be nourished and honored. +
During my school years, I was actively involved in community service programs such as local Santa
Cruz History Museum work, Foster Care programs, etc. Since finishing High School, my focus has
been mainly on Dharma activities. +
