New Kitchen & Dining Room Project
We are pleased to announce that our new dining room and kitchen project has started.
We demolished the 'temporary' kitchen, which was built twelve years ago, and we are in the process of putting in pilings to complete the foundations. We have a long summer ahead as we endeavour to get the new two-story building completed by the beginning of September in time for the start of next season.
If you have been to Root, then you'll no doubt remember how basic our dining facilities were, with the outside seating and washing up area, which isn't ideal when it's wet during monsoon, hot during summer and cold during winter! We would love your support in helping us achieve this goal and provide better facilities for future residents at the Institute. The new building will provide an indoor dining area and washing facilities with a veranda for eating outside in good weather. Upstairs there will be new single rooms, showers and toilets.
However, we are still in great need of assistance as our projected cost of US$70,000 creeps up to US$100,000.
To help you decide whether you'd like to donate to the new dining hall, here are some suggested donations:
- A donation of $50 will buy about 750 bricks.
- $1500 will buy about 160,000 bricks and enables you to stay at Root for a free 3 to 10 day retreat of your choice in a twin room with en suite, depending on availability at the time, before the end of 2010.
- $3000 or more will fit out the shower block and will also mean that your name is added to the list of donors, which shall appear on a plaque on one wall of the dining hall.
- $10,000 will buy all the solar panels needed to provide hot water for the building and the knowledge that we are helping the environment.
- $30,000 will give the donor the chance to name the dining hall, either after themselves, or in memory of someone else, or whatever they seem fit, but the name of course must meet with the final approval of Root Institute administration.
We hope you will be able to help benefit the centre for future visitors and continue providing Dharma to those who pass through Bodhgaya, the holiest Buddhist site in the world.
This page will be updated from time to time with photos of the progress.
