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Aim: To provide students with educational facilities closer to home, so they remain in their local village and provide it with their skills, avioding a drain of young people to the large cities.

Too often, after sampling the amenities and excitement of big city living, graduates choose not to return to the mountain villages. By educating and employing students locally, there is less risk of experiencing the inevitable "brain drain" phenomenon that occurs in underserviced rural areas such as the Kangchenjunga Region. As a step toward this goal, KSP is seeking to raise funds for the construction of a girl’s dormitory, including renovations and additions to a Secondary School in Lelep. [ more.. ]

Women's Health Care Training

Aim: To train a local women to be able to provide maternal and women's health care.

Since the Kangchenjunga School Project built the first health clinic in Ghunsa 1991, we have been involved in the continuous training of health care workers in the villages, and a general assessment of the local health care needs. Two health care workers now operate in the Kangchenjunga valley, one at the Ghunsa clinic, and the other at the Folay clinic. The needs of women's health is lacking however, as the two clinic workers are both male. KSP is seeking support for the implementation of a district-wide training program for women's reproductive health, which is currently non existent. [ more.. ]

Solar and Wind-Powered Vaccine Refrigerators

Aim: To provide refigeration in remote areas so that vaccines can be kept available.

Remote areas pose the greatest challenges to providing preventive health-care. The population is sparsely scattered over the valleys and hill tops, and often the only communication is by word of mouth. Medicines also cannot be transported easily because they need to be kept cold or they loose their effectivness. The goal of KSP is to gradually install and test the effectiveness of a network of solar and wind-powered vaccine refrigerators in remote strategic locations. [ more.. ]

Tibetan History Project

Aim: To preserve Tibetan culture, history and provide learning material by publishing stories told by the Tibetan elders, before they are lost to new generations.

As more and more refugees leave Tibet, and as the Chinese government imports its education system, its ethnic nationals, and its own version of history into Tibet, traditional Tibetan culture is becoming increasingly diluted. We believe that cultural preservation is essential to ensuring the survival of the Tibetan people, and this project aims to capture the memories and traditions of the Tibetan refugees in the Kangchenjunga region. In addition, while the school in Folay is supplied with some books written in Nepali and English, there are very few texts in Tibetan for the children to study. This project aims to fill that gap with stories the children will find entertaining, meaningful and educational. [ more.. ]

Pre-School Education in Folay and Ghunsa

Aim: To improve the standard of education and increase the village involvement in the local school, by creating a pre-school program taught by local village women.

The creation of a pre-school progam aims to overcome some typical educational shortcomings which commonly occur in village Nepal. Often there is a high rate of teacher absenteeism and poor teacher performance, as the teachers are often Hindu, and the students are Tibetan or Sherpas. Culturally distanced, there appears little active engagement in the outcome or welfare of the students. Due to these shortcomings, a pre-school program for children aged 3 to 5, using local village women as teachers, was initiated in 1997. The pre-school program being introduced involves the use of the "Montessori" teaching method. This approach allows a child to discover the joy of learning through hands-on manipulation of objects and detailed observation of the natural enviornment. [ more.. ]

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