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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Solukhumbu, Nepal
Wongchu Biswa Darshan School
The only earthquake-resistant school in the region, rebuilt by the village in 2016 and paid for by vertical feet.
How it was built
Education Elevated has worked in Chyangba Village, in Nepal’s Solukhumbu district, since 2008. The April 2015 earthquake took down the schoolhouse built the year before. The village rebuilt it in 2016 to withstand the next one, and it remains the only earthquake-resistant school in the region.
The 2016 school was an initiative of Pemba Dorjee Sherpa, built with the Nepali Relief Fund of Indiana and an architect from Kathmandu.
Who runs it
Local partners in Chyangba Village. The school takes 56 children through primary school every year, and every dollar raised is applied to the campaign it was raised for.
Inside the school
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The campus after the 2016 rebuild
More in Chyangba
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.
The school the quake took down
The schoolhouse built the year before the April 2015 earthquake destroyed it, and the reason the village rebuilt to withstand the next one.
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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.