Our School Project
At present the two schools have around 130 students (40% girls and 60% boys), 14 teachers and additional 4 staff members.
About our foundation
Objectives
To provide assistance to local communities in developing projects in the Himalayan region. To provide education to underprivileged children in the most remote areas of Dolpo.
Our Vision
Thought under arduous conditions, we have managed to open schools and provide those disadvantaged children with traditional and modern education, we do not have an academic infrastructure for those students.
School Mission Statement, Rationale, and Future plans
Kula Mountain Primary School is committed to Providing free education to the poor children in this region. Through education, the school helps young people to acquire skills of various kinds, enabling them to improve their living conditions and prospects for the future. In addition to the regular HMG Nepal government curriculum ( Nepali and English, Maths Science), Kula Mountain Primary School also teaches Tibetan language, to help ensure that the people from these regions will be able to read their histories, keep their cultural traditions alive, and write their own futures. In addition, teaching children some nepali is also very helpful, as many people of older generations do not speak the national language. Now, thanks to the kula Mountain Primary School, some families are learning more Nepali words, and are happy to send their children to school. The school now has more than 50 students
Useful information
Brief history of Dolpo
Dolpo is located north-west of Nepal and shares its eastern border with Mustang, and it is 6 hours of walking distant from Tibet.
Etymologically, the word Dolpo comes from the Tibetan word dho-wo, which literally means load. Ethnically we are all Tibetan and our cultural practices trace back to Tibet. Unfortunately, due to its remote location and Inaccessibility, Dolpo never had a functioning school in the past.
The School
However, in the year 2000, we, Tenzin Norbu and Kunga Lama founded a school, Siddhartha Kula Primary School. Our first school was a modest tent and had around 20 students with only one teacher.
Slowly, though under extreme odds, we manage to build a permanent school structure in the year 2002 and in the year 2007 we opened a new school, IndraDhanush Primary School. At present the two schools have around 130 students (40% girls and 60% boys), 14 teachers and additional 4 staff members.
Current Academic Structure
At present both the schools have grades from nursery to 5th and the graduates of the schools attend Srongtsen Bhrikuti Secondary School in Kathmandu.
Additionally, we have managed to open a separate hostel in Kathmandu, which houses about 38 students and 4 staff members. The primary objective of the hostel is to preserve and reinforce the sustainability of our unique Dolpo culture and language.