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Lamayuru School
(Ladakh, India)
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It was necessary to build a new school in Lamayuru. The premises were too dilapidated and were no longer suitable.
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Thanks to donations, funds were commited to provide these children with a new school structure without the government providing any subsidies.
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A library, four classrooms on the ground floor, four bedrooms upstairs with a bathroom. An access corridor closed by a veranda will maintain the temperature in winter (most rooms in Ladakh are accessible directly from the outside and winter temperature may drop in winter to -20 °F).
The school not only provides a monastic education, now their daily schedule is divided between studies, practices, games and physical activities (they are particularly fond of soccer).
The day begins with a puja (ritual of offering and prayers) before breakfast, then the subjects alternate between the study of languages ​​(Ladakhi, Hindi, English), mathematics, computer science, in order to offer everyone a choice for the future in monastic or lay life.
The school provides a boarding school for children who live several hours away in the mountains.
The young pupils, aged six to twelve, come from distant and very isolated villages in the Himalayan mountains. The inhabitants of these steep, hard-to-reach regions increasingly try to migrate to the big cities, but find little work there. They find themselves uprooted and children out of school. It is therefore essential to help these people to preserve their traditions and to continue living on their land, in particular by offering access to education to the youngest.
Support the Lamayuru school,
it is to improve their schooling conditions,
it is to allow these motivated children to study, to eat and to have access to health care.
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