Thank you for your support of our Nepal Earthquake Emergency Relief Benefit at MacroSun
MacroSun has worked with the country and people of Nepal for over twenty years. We have many dear friends and artisan-partners who have been impacted by the devastating earthquake in Nepal.
We raised over a thousand dollars from the MacroSun benefit to be distributed to Nepal earthquake relief through Mitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children (www.mitrata.org), for the children of Nepal impacted by the earthquake.
We are deeply grateful for the generosity of our customers and friends.
We have been in touch with our dear friends Mangal Man and Rajendra – many of MacroSun’s artisan-partners, also longtime friends, are accounted for and safe – Prakash, Govinda, Tashi, Achoot, and others, but some have not yet been located.
Again, we are deeply grateful for your generosity and inquiries about ways to help.
-Your Friends at Macrosun International
September 1st, 2013 
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Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery, in India, created a sand mandala on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 at the MacroSun International store in St. Louis. This mandala was created by precisely dropping grains of color sand onto a wooden board to create a design to represent peace. It took three days for a team of eight monks to create it. On the fourth day, the mandala is swept away and the sand scattered in the Mississippi River to show the importance of non-attachment and to benefit all the beings in the water, says one of the monks.