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Keeping the temple practice commitments as umdze and chÑpon and taking care of other duties in the retreat centre in between retreats. From time to time being chÑpon in the public tsoks. +
During 2 years, I helped at the Amma's Ashram next to my home, mainly taking care of the temple. +
For 2 years, I helped at the Amma's Ashram next to my home, mainly taking care of the temple. +
I have done various community service work throughout my life, including: cleaning community parks and streets, feeding homeless, tutoring youth in juvenile detention facilities, vounteering at elderly homes, volunteering to work with cerebral palsy patients, feeding terminally ill children in hospitals in south america +
Interpreter for Tibetan Community in Paris
Interpreter for Tibetan Refugees in Paris since 2005
Creation of the Association "Interface Culturelle, les Chemins de l'Entente (Thun Drel)" in 2014
Volunteer when and where it is useful for social work +
Volunteering in wildlife conservation for the Mumpalanga district in South Africa. Volunteering for children's school in Sarnath, India.
Volunteering in assistance to lepers, the destitute and dying, in Lakshman Joola and Calcuta, India. +
I’ve cared for friends and relatives who have needed support, including my elderly parents for many years. I have also served as ad hoc and formal volunteer, such as when a director of a local chapter of the Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia (now Hope for Mental Health). +
My entire adult career in a professional capacity has been working with people with disabilities in the communities in which I have lived.
In my early teenage years, after a mind-expanding experience, I organized a Walk for Development to help disadvantaged people find housing in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I organized multiple high school districts to work together to combat pollution (air, water, trash) in the Shenandoah Valley. In my home town, I organized a clean-up of a creek that ran through town that was an open-air garbage dump. As a result of my environmental work, I attended the White House Conference on Youth as an Environmental Activist in 1970. I am a vegetarian for most of my adult life and helped to start some of the very first "health food stores" in San Francisco....which evolved from my commune who was part of the Food Conspiracy network of communes in the Bay Area. +
Throughout the years I’ve been drawn to all sorts of community work starting in high school
volunteering at homeless shelters, 2 years of Americorps working with refugees and immigrants from southeast Africa in Minnesota. I have helped with youth groups and big brother big sister projects. I have done Art therapy volunteer groups for various projects throughout the last decade. I have worked with folks with different abilities as a job but also volunteered with groups that bring isolated individuals together. +
I worked for 8 moths helping in building the Meditation House as a bricklayer, maintenance, painting and other tasks. +
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In Dag Shang Kagyu I helped for 5 years on kitchen work, laundry, cleaning, gardening, shopping and building big and small stupas, painting frescoes and other religious monuments. +
I have worked as a counsellor, teacher, chaplain, and women's advocate. My volunteer work has primarily focused in the areas of ending violence toward women, promoting racial and gender equality, and encouraging open-mindedness toward and equality for gay/lesbian/transgender people. +
Translations from english to spanish for the "Asociaciân de Yoga Iyengar de Espaâa" +
As DagShangKagyu's technical secretary: dskpanillo.org website, sociel networks, MS-Office works and computer works. +
2009-2010 being a volunteer of ARA foundation, going once a week to old people's recidency and sharing time with them. Mallorca +
