Education for 13,000 Children in the High Himalaya Photo Gallery

A young girl in Lossar village, Spiti, Himachal Pr

Children in one of the supplementary schools

Children playing outside a supplementary school

Children playing drums outside one of the supplementary schools (also called 'alternate learning hubs')

A tribal girl in Lossar village, Spiti

Women in traditional dress in Spiti, Himachal Prad

Tibetan prayer flags

The area is still Buddhist, one of the reasons for its marginalization in predominantly Hindu India

A woman with a traditional text

Part of the project is to enable literacy amongst the indigenous people so that they can read their own sacred texts in their Bhoti language (a dialect of Tibetan) and thus perpetuate their own distinctive culture.

A young tribal girl in Demul village

A traditional stupa and prayer flags 15,000ft

Trucks in the High Himalaya

The area is extremely isolated, dependent on trucks for transport but the roads are closed for up to 6 months of the year and are very rough and needing constant repair during the remainder of the year.