The Chyangba Girls’ Dormitory
Each girl now has her own sleeping space, bed and bedding, and a shared dining area where everyone eats together instead of in shifts. It sits a short walk below the school campus.
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Chyangba, 2008
The first walk in
Everest Base Camp, then on to Island Peak. Four of the team turned off the trail for Chyangba Village and started work on its school.
What the team did
Julie Lilienkamp, Gerri Kier, and Brandi and Dan Rush visited Chyangba Village in May 2008. They painted the school building and the classrooms, assessed the construction plans for the library and the media centre, and levelled the playground area for the dental camp that October.
Who walked in
The expedition trekked to Everest Base Camp and continued to Island Peak. At Base Camp the team was Elliott Stewart, Dan Rush, Lee Sullivan, Marius Klee and Gerri Kier in the back row, with Brandi Rush and Julie Lilienkamp in front.
May 2008 in Chyangba
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Painting the classroom wall
The first school to benefit was the primary school in Chyangba Village. Every project since has stayed in the same village.
More in Chyangba
Wongchu Biswa Darshan School
Rebuilt with the Nepali Relief Fund of Indiana and an architect from Kathmandu after the April 2015 quake, on an initiative of Pemba Dorjee Sherpa .
Smokeless stoves
Stoves carried up by truck and on foot and installed in the village kitchens, and the dedication of the two storey school buildings.
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The village, not just the school
Everything Education Elevated builds in Chyangba is funded by the people who climb for it.