The School

The little kindergarten that began in Ang Tsering Lama’s house has grown from having 25 children to having 200 children of whom 40 are orphans or disabled boarders.

Classes have now extended to Class V and teaching is by the Montessori method. They have a new school building and hostel.

There are 22 staff including teachers, cooks, hostel ‘mothers’ and cleaners. Mr. Ang Tsering’s family are closely involved. His wife Ang Kandhi Lama and his youngest son Nuri both direct and manage the school working closely with the school supervisor, headmaster and hostel staff.

It is little wonder that the poor people of the area are desperate to send their children there for they provide free education, meals, uniforms, shoes, stationary and medicine.

The good lunch they are given often the only healthy meal of the day. The education they receive is of such high quality that those who go on to the government school leave our Grade V and go straight into Grade VII.

We have a waiting list of 500 who are either destitute, homeless or orphans and it is heartbreaking to have to send them away. But the children we do take are a joy to see.

However, until we have found sponsors for those children we have already taken in, we cannot afford to accept more.

Our aim is to eventually upgrade the school to Class VIII, bring in vocational training and to enlarge it to be able to take 400 children.

In the words of Mr. Ang Tsering Lama “It is our dream to make each destitute or orphaned child independent and be able to stand on their own two feet for the rest of his or her life. We want their life to be fruitful for themselves, their community and indeed for the nation.”