Three children to a school in Kathmandu
Two children, Doma Sherpa and Yangyi Sherpa, go to the Himalaya International Model Higher Secondary School (HIMS)
Furi Sherpa now attends the Orion Academy in Chabahil.
At HIMS the children are enlisted as full-boarders or day-boarders. A full-boarder has day and night care, a day-boarder is provided with a lunch only. Another advantage of HIMS is that children, who start at a young age, also can study Tibetan.
At the start of the foundation we were sending Furi Sherpa and Doma Sherpa to HIMS. However,Furi did not do so well at HIMS and did not progress beyond class six. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, which begins April 15, his place is taken by his sister Yangyi. Yangyi has a much better start than Furi. She started at the kindergarten.
Furi has been transferred to the Kumari English Boarding Higher Secondary School (KEBS).
This school practices a different way of teaching. That method is called learning-by-doing.
The school has a website: http://www.kumari.edu.np
After passing class 8 successfully he again changed schools. Now he attends the Orion Academy in Chabahil. There he hopes to pass the SLC exam in 2012.
Furi Sherpa now attends the Orion Academy in Chabahil.
At HIMS the children are enlisted as full-boarders or day-boarders. A full-boarder has day and night care, a day-boarder is provided with a lunch only. Another advantage of HIMS is that children, who start at a young age, also can study Tibetan.
At the start of the foundation we were sending Furi Sherpa and Doma Sherpa to HIMS. However,Furi did not do so well at HIMS and did not progress beyond class six. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, which begins April 15, his place is taken by his sister Yangyi. Yangyi has a much better start than Furi. She started at the kindergarten.
Furi has been transferred to the Kumari English Boarding Higher Secondary School (KEBS).
This school practices a different way of teaching. That method is called learning-by-doing.
The school has a website: http://www.kumari.edu.np
After passing class 8 successfully he again changed schools. Now he attends the Orion Academy in Chabahil. There he hopes to pass the SLC exam in 2012.
If you send kids to school, it is of course best if you ensure that they can finish that school. Taking into account the Nepalese school system of 10+2, you would therefor need to provide a support guarantee for a minimum of 10 years, but preferably 12 years.
This commitment we have in the form of annuities and bequests.
Doma would like to be a teacher. And Yangyi? Who knows. Anyhow, she now has an opportunity for intellectual development.
It will always remain an item for discussion, which is better, to help the children from the countryside, at at as early an age as possible, to go to the better education available in the city or to work at the improving the standard of education in the rural areas. Both will be needed.
For the present youths, this discussion is not relevant.
As a parent you send your child to the best school that you can afford. Waiting until the quality in rural areas is to scratch is not an option.
This commitment we have in the form of annuities and bequests.
Doma would like to be a teacher. And Yangyi? Who knows. Anyhow, she now has an opportunity for intellectual development.
It will always remain an item for discussion, which is better, to help the children from the countryside, at at as early an age as possible, to go to the better education available in the city or to work at the improving the standard of education in the rural areas. Both will be needed.
For the present youths, this discussion is not relevant.
As a parent you send your child to the best school that you can afford. Waiting until the quality in rural areas is to scratch is not an option.