Shree Naradpokari Primary School
Date of Completion: June 1995
The remote village of Goje lies more than a two day walk from the nearest
road and is inhabited by a group of people known as the Gurung. The Gurung
live mainly in the Himalayan Mountain regions of Nepal and farm steep
terraces for subsistence. The original school in Goje village had been
partially swept down the mountainside in a landslide and while no one was
injured, many parents stopped sending their children to school for fear the
rest of the structure was unsafe. The original enrollment of the school had
been one hundred students, and now there were only forty.
The remoteness of the village made the school’s construction particularly
challenging. The community had to gather many materials from the local area,
such as sand, rock, timber and slate. But the biggest challenge was carrying 100lb
bags of cement on their backs up a 3,000 ft. ascent into the village. The
school was completed in under three months and now the student enrollment
is back up to one hundred children.
The remote village of Goje lies more than a two day walk from the nearest
road and is inhabited by a group of people known as the Gurung. The Gurung
live mainly in the Himalayan Mountain regions of Nepal and farm steep
terraces for subsistence. The original school in Goje village had been
partially swept down the mountainside in a landslide and while no one was
injured, many parents stopped sending their children to school for fear the
rest of the structure was unsafe. The original enrollment of the school had
been one hundred students, and now there were only forty.
