Lifestart Foundation is very happy to welcome three new student groups for 2008. Five girls who are training to become Buddhist nuns have now joined the student body at the Lifestart Foundation Free School. The girls, TRUYEN, THAO, TIEN, NGUYEN and TAM all live at the Pagoda, just around the corner from the Lifestart School. The girls live at the Pagoda for a variety of reasons. In some cases, it's a choice made by very poor parents in lieu of leaving their child at an orphanage; for others, this is a personal choice made from a deep commitment to their faith. The head nun from our local Pagoda, TY KHEO THICH NU HANH NHU, visited me at the Lifestart school and asked if the girls could attend our classes. After meeting and interviewing them I had
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