Impact
The school’s story is one of resounding success, exemplifying what can be achieved by selfless involvement and humaneness of the couple of monks who conceived the project and their carefully selected team of staff and teachers. Today, in 2022, 309 children are learning and living at the Jamyang boarding school.
Model Citizens
The school shapes disadvantaged children into model citizens. The children find a safe, secure space to grow and learn at the school and they benefit from the balance of modern education and ethical values that makes this school stand out. Most of them grow to be confident and kind young adults. 106 children, more than half of them girls, have graduated since the school started, many of them continuing their studies beyond their school years. Many students continue to keep in touch with the school authorities after graduation and that they will soon be examples who inspire and motivate others of the community to aspire for a poverty-free tomorrow. We stay hopeful that these students will stick to the core values of the school and be change leaders of tomorrow.
Long term commitment
The school’s impact is also evidenced by the fact that it has grown almost five times, from 63 students in 2008 to 309 students in 2022, in a duration of less than a decade and half. The school hopes to continue growing and serve an increasing number of students in the coming years.
From the 106 graduates of the school, children that had been groomed from LKG level to graduation, only one child failed its graduation within the 14 years of existence of the school. The school has not only given an education -and with it prospects of excelling in valuable professions to the children-, but has given hope to entire communities, changing their attitude towards schooling.
The importance given to girls -as a rule 50% of all chosen students have to be girls- reflects also in the respect and attitude towards them and the general confidence they show. The girls participate for example in all sports categories and out of eight students, who ran the Ladakhi half- and quarter-marathon with their headmaster this year, five were girls.
