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

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Education for 13,000 Children in the High Himalaya

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.	Higher attendences at school Your support has helped achieve a 25% increase in boys of remote villages attending school and a 35% increase in girls of remote villages attending school.
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.	Women in traditional dress in Spiti, Himachal Prad
Children playing outside a supplementary school Children playing drums outside one of the supplementary schools (also called 'alternate learning hubs')	Children in one of the supplementary schools
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.	Children's dance in Demul village, Spiti Photo from Progress Report 'A further 87 supplementary schools in the Himalayas'
Mountains in Spiti Photo from Progress Report 'A further 87 supplementary schools in the Himalayas'	Girl in Rogi village, Kinnaur Photo from Progress Report 'A further 87 supplementary schools in the Himalayas'