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, 2014
The school the quake took down
A two storey schoolhouse, finished in 2014, the year before the April 2015 earthquake destroyed it.
What was built
A two storey schoolhouse, finished in 2014. It stood for a year. The April 2015 earthquake destroyed it.
What replaced it
The village rebuilt in 2016, to withstand the next one. That rebuild is still the only earthquake-resistant school in the region.
Before and after the quake
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The school in front of its classrooms
The village did not rebuild what it had. It rebuilt something that would survive the next earthquake.
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.