E

ducation

193

A school with a view in Ladakh in winter

w

hat a school is, and created a safe, joyful

environment for children to learn in. e

local community is mobilized to take

ownership of the school. ‘anks to the

encouragement and continuous involvement

of 17000 , we were able to approach the

government and get our school upgraded.

Our school had only two rooms before, now

it has eight classrooms and two floors,’ says

Javed Kaka, Village Education Committee

Chairman, Karkitchoo, Kargil District.

Several government schools have been

adopted by 17000  and its scalable model

has impacted thousands of children.

Improved learning and reading, the

electrification and digitization of villages

and high quality infrastructure are one side

of the coin. ‘Its biggest impact has been on

HCL Grant Project Title:

E

nable Children

in Remote, Off-Network Areas of Ladakh

Who Have Been Le Out of Learning Due to

Lack of Mobile Connectivity, to Get Back to

Learning by Ensuring em Access to Digital

Learning at Home

Beneficiaries:

5,000 government elementary

school students

Location:

100 v

illages in Leh and Kargil

the exposure that it has been able to give to

children of these forgotten villages and the

dreams and aspirations that it has inspired,

and most of all, the feeling that they are

equal in every way to children elsewhere in

the world,’ says Sujata Sahu.