By Barbara Euser | Project Leader
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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