A new canteen and kitchen for the girls of Golok.

In Goloks prefecture, at 4000 metres altitude on the Tibetan highlands, there’s a school attended only by the girls coming from the villages scattered on the surrounding mountains. In 2004, on behalf of the local community and on the impulse of the well known educator the monk Jigmed Gyaltsen, abbot of the Raja Monastery, ASIA begun working to build a school entirely dedicated to those girls who had no other access to any education. In fact, the only other school existing didn’t allow the enrolment of girls.

 

  

Since its opening in 2007 the school of Golok has become an example to follow for the entire region. It respects the governments teaching plan, uses traditional methods of teaching and imparts the study of Tibetan culture, language and philosophy. This has brought an incredible increase in the number of students enrolled, from about 240 girls in 2007 to the more than 500 presently. As it now stands, the strong cold and the freezing snow have contributed to the dilapidation of the buildings, making a new intervention of ASIA necessary for the reconstruction and enlargement of the school.

 

The first part of the project consists in the construction of a new kitchen, to guarantee the storage and preparation of healthy meals, and a new canteen, to provide an healthy and sanitised environment for all students and teachers. In fact, guaranteeing the right to education isn’t enough if at the same time, other two fundamental human rights aren’t guaranteed:  the right to food and the right to health.