Project Report
| May 4, 2026
New School Year Begins
By Barbara Euser | Project Leader
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On April 25, Tsharka School teachers began their spring trek to Tsharka via Mustang. With them are all the teaching materials for this year's classes, as well as building materials for construction of a new toilet block.
This year, Tsharka School has a total of ten staff, including seven teachers (in addition to the two teachers provided by the District Education Office), our School Coordinator and two cooks, one for the student hostel and one for the teachers. This is the first year that every staff member is fully sponsored by a combination of non-profit organizations.
ICDF believes the teachers and staff are the most important part of the school: education is the information that passes between students and teachers.
ICDF has been funding teachers and staff at Tsharka School for twenty-three years.
We especially appreciate our donors who support Tsharka School month after month and year after year.
Persistence and long-term commitment are the basis of Tsharka School's success.
Thank you for joining us on this journey!
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Classroom
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Computer lab
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Textbook exercises on the computer
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Working together
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Exercise in the courtyard
Jan 1, 2026
Tsharka School Thriving
By Barbara Euser | Project Leader
The elementary/middle school in Tsharka that the International Community Development Foundation began supporting in 2004 -- over 20 years ago -- is going strong. Supported by donations from all over the world, we have built new solar-heated classrooms that allow us to teach classes during more months of the year. As we have built new classrooms, we have increased the faculty. We now have students who have completed middle school in Tsharka and attend highschool classes in Kathmandu while living at our hostel there. ConsIstency and persistence are the keys to Tsharka' School's success. Our energetic School Coordinator has now worked for a full decade improving the quality of education for our students. We are looking forward to a successful new year ahead!
Aug 28, 2024
New Student Record
By Barbara Euser | Project Leader
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Student at work
Tsharka (Chharka Bhot) School’s twenty-first school year is well underway. This year, we have a record 85 students. Not only does our school serve the village of Tsharka: half a dozen children from a nearby hamlet also attend. It is too far students to walk back and forth to school each day, so they stay at Tsharka school hostel during the school week. The hostel also accommodates children whose families are herding their yaks in the high pastures in the surrounding mountains and have no relatives in the village. One of our teachers also sleeps in the hostel. Our school cook prepares meals for the hostel students, as well as lunch for all Tsharka School staff. The next building project at Tsharka School will be a building specifically designed as a hostel. Our school model has always aimed to serve local children who could live at home and walk back and forth to school each day. We believe it is important for children to live in their local community and be immersed in their village culture. However, receiving an education is extremely important. If the best way for some local children to be able to study is to live at the school, Tsharka School will make every effort to provide for them.
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Studying outside on a fine day
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Morning prayers in school courtyard
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Newly donated backpacks