{"id":1074,"date":"2012-03-08T14:59:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T04:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:45","slug":"dragon-bones-supports-education-of-bhutanese-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/1074","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Bones Supports Education of Bhutanese Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/images\/20percent goal.jpg\" class=\"g2image_float_right\" width=\"200\" \/>The first royalty cheque for <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dragonbonesbhutan\" title=\"available from Amazon\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon Bones<\/a> was for 502 copies sold over 6 months.  That&#8217;s about 10% of my big goal of 5000 sales.  My main driver for selling so many copies (it is a lot for an unknown writer) was to ensure substantial support for Bhutanese organisations.  To put this in perspective, my full target of 150,000 Nu was equivalent to 18 months base salary for a government employee.  The recent strength of the Australian dollar makes the royalties worth far more in Ngultrum so I&#8217;ve decided to donate the entire first royalty cheque instead of just <a href=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=827\" title=\"Dragon Bones for Charity announcement\">half<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/gallery\/gallery2.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=2511&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\" class=\"g2image_float_left\" width=\"200\" \/>This first cheque is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewbhutan.org\/\" title=\"Respect, Educate, Nurture and Empower Women\" target=\"_blank\">RENEW<\/a>.  I mentioned RENEW a number of times in Dragon Bones for its work in addressing issues relating to the treatment of women.  The organisation is currently partnering with two Australians to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianhimalayanfoundation.org.au\/PROJECTS\/Project-Summaries\/Bhutan-Educational-Assistance-Program.asp\" title=\"Bhutan Educational Assistance Program\" target=\"_blank\">assistance to girls in rural Bhutan<\/a>.  The money will be used to fund school books, uniforms, meals and boarding facilities as required.<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage others to donate to this cause.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianhimalayanfoundation.org.au\" title=\"Supporting the People of the Himalaya\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Himalayan Foundation<\/a> will take donations online and, as a registered charity, can provide a tax receipt to Australian residents.  Your money will help educate children who live up to two days walk from the nearest road.  A$100 will support one girl for a full year.  Please help out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first royalty cheque for Dragon Bones was for 502 copies sold over 6 months. That&#8217;s about 10% of my big goal of 5000 sales. My main driver for selling so many copies (it is a lot for an unknown writer) was to ensure substantial support for Bhutanese organisations. To put this in perspective, my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/1074\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dragon Bones Supports Education of Bhutanese Girls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,43],"tags":[56,76,70,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}