Gandruk village, Annapurna region, Nepal.

What and how children learn in the country of happiness? What values ​​they were brought up from childhood? Look like in high school and a village school in a suburb of Kathmandu, all this in the next report from the series "Asian class."



In this feature, I'll talk about a number of schools in Nepal. A small alpine village Gandruk which lost in the web of the Himalayas in the north-eastern Nepal.



Lucky children who live in the Gandruke. But not for all the daily path to knowledge is light so: from neighboring villages children go to 1.5-2 hours one way on foot in any weather overcoming five meter height differences on narrow slippery mountain trails. Civilization, the school bus? In these parts do not, around the mountains and forests, to the nearest city with road links two days on foot and by foot!



At school, 8th grade 15-25 children in each of all the surrounding villages. Every morning, all classes are going on line in the schoolyard, lining up in rows in unison singing the national anthem to the rhythmic drum beats Director, followed by a gleeful shrieks flee in their classes.





Rebyatnya surrounded us a dense ring, demanding more and more pictures just for the right to look at themselves in the small screen of the camera. Certainly not opposed to the teacher of photography and this friendly class. Smiling and very strict with not mean middle-aged woman came to class with words of welcome at the class replied in unison «Thank you, Teacher!» And only after that the children took their places.









What is a classroom? This is a small room on the ground floor with window openings without glass with bare stone walls and old wooden benches. But what do you do when it's cold and winter ?, - we asked reasonably. What they heard in response to the uncertain "and how much of the winter?". At school, 10 teachers, 7 of them have public funding, and the remaining 3 teachers are paid out of the money collected by clubbing together "state" teachers. In Nepal, the literacy rate of the population of 43%. Primary school education is free, the teachers say that children were willing to lessons of pedagogical preferences isolated lessons in English and mathematics. In the latter ninth grade is the only one achiever receives state law to go to university.

Over the years, after the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a democratic republic in Nepal state one of the main priorities puts access to schooling, even in the most remote mountain villages. On the walls of this school and tell us homemade placards slogans and chants. As elsewhere in the country is unpretentious and simple, without modern projectors in this mountainous school teacher carefully displays the letters on the board of the native language, "Nepali".

After making a few shots we go outside and notice another class circle Housed on the grass around the teacher. The kids take turns coming to the teacher with the task performed in a notebook and get the following. Nothing is more conducive to learning, as the crystal clear air and the mountains around. And it's not staged footage, this is a real learning process!





What is living this village at an altitude of 2000 meters away from the road and bustle? Partly due to the tourist industry going through her trekingovoj path, partly at the expense of small-scale agriculture. "How are you doing with health care?" - I asked the director of the school. He said that the assistance available from the health point, but free only to students during training, and that doctors do not have, there is only a nurse. What reminds Ukrainian province, is not it? Yes, but with the difference that came to the clinic in Nepal, I really saw a big list of all available (!) In the presence of drugs, despite the fact that they are delivered here on the shoulders of porters-porters.

Another school in the highlands of Annapurna:





















Class number on the nameplate on the door:















Class:











In high school, the size of desks and legroom is not increased:















This school in Patan, a suburb of Kathmandu. We stopped in the afternoon, classes and ended in a small cozy schoolyard school concert was held.























So go to the city school:



After the class:



We in Nepal:



Land of happiness:







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More about my visits to the schools of Asia:



Also read about Nepal:



- Nepali boy - one day in the life of a small Susana
- ABC: Base Camp in Nepal Annapury

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