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Education for 13,000 Children in the High Himalaya

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Education for 13,000 Children in the High Himalaya

Classroom in the clouds

The whole school collapses down into robust, red plastic crates, which also serve the children as desks. During the summer months classes are held at 17,000 feet – making this perhaps the highest school in the world.

Children benefitting from the mobile school

The classes run for two hours every morning, giving the children enough time to help their parents with milking and shearing the animals in the early morning and late afternoon. The children love the classes because the mobile center has a range of toys and games designed to enable them to learn through play – bright-coloured jigsaws, board-games, puzzles, counting boards and skittles.

Thondup Tsering is the main teacher in the mobile

“These children are our future. It’s crucial they get an education, otherwise they’ll spend the rest of their lives being exploited by traders from other communities and end up picking up other people’s garbage.”

Student benefitting from the computer classes

The project helps support 12 different courses comprising computers, book-keeping, personality development, basic enterprise skills and eco-tourism, photography, electronics & crafts and ecology, health & sanitation and first aid.

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Thanks to 95 donors like you, a total of $6,332 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.

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