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Escaping
the Gorkha-Guerilla War which broke out in Darjeeling,
India, in the early 1980's, a few young Nepali-Indians
arrived in Sermathang a village situated in Helambu
at the altitude of 2700m. They started living in
the village in exchange for giving some tutoring
to the local youth and children. In due course,
when villagers felt the importance of a good school
to educate their children in the village, energy
turned to establishing Yangrima School. Later, a
local young man called Gopal Lama who with his incredible
feat took over as the founder-principal of the School,
and since then, Yangrima saw one miracle after another. |
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start of the volunteer programme with gap projects
with jennifer colin in 1989, then nick lunch followed
by tim kruger and anthony rollick, the visit of martine
and me in 1990 resulting in the setting up of the
sermathang project which, with gopal in nepal and
anthony in uk, created a supporter group of over 200
people and funded teacher salaries and many other
initiatives over a 10 year period. The hand over from
gap to mondochallenge in 1998, with anthony handling
volunteer selection and placement, which resulted
in volunteers coming from several countries and to
the establishment of a wider range of activities in
the village. Then there were the visits to uk of gopal
and then norchung in 1996, each of which involved
meetings of supporters being held in milton malsor
to plan new initiatives and funding. It was thanks
to these that the sermathang project was able to support
the costs of closure, including teach salaries etc. |
Yangrima
School was successful in bringing the world to
its door through various avenues of volunteering
programs and exchange programs. It was one of
the schools in the nation that promoted cultural
understanding all around the globe. The students
of the School, though confined to a far-off hill-station,
were practicing international friendship. Examples
were the Norwegian links, Danish links and the
school exchange with Bradford in 2001 and the
links with Wellington, established by Tim Kruger,
which flourished over several years.
Yangrima
also played a vital role in instilling the feeling
of cultural preservation in its students, and
had become a catalyst in helping locals get some
income-generating opportunities. Yangrima School
was supplemented with a number of modern buildings
in less than a decade with the support of a volunteers'
initiative to apply for funding from Cambridge
University.
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Yangrima
sent its first original batch to sit for SLC examination
in 1998 and thereafter kept on achieving remarkable results
until it was doomed to collapse at gunpoint in 2001. However,
the spirit of Yangrima School even after its closure did
not fade away. It rather multiplied in numerous forms.
Yangrima Ex-Students Society (YESS) was born in Kathmandu
to do what you are reading today. Yangrima School kept
on showing its color until late with some remarkable achievements
made by its ex-students, including the UK International
Student Award Winner 2006 and the winner of Everest Marathon
2005, both of whom credit their success to their early
good upbringing at Yangrima School.
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There
are more than enough reasons WHY YANGRIMA SCHOOL must
be brought into existence. It is for nothing less
than the global benefit as it has the power to create
internationally-competent human resources through
its education and environment!!
Therefore, we call you to support us, to help this
School regain its miraculous track, so that the multitudes
of children who have been denied education have the
opportunity to build their strong future.
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