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The
View
Point
Boarding School
is situated on the brink of a canyon near Pokhara with a view of the
Himalaya mountains.
It was founded by M. Bahadur Giri, after his retirement as a teacher,
in order to provide children of poor peasants with education. He
financed it out of his retirement pension and from the money paid by the
parents.
In the school there are about 475 pupils all aged between three and fifteen
years, all of them planning to achieve their GCSE in their final year.
Half of the pupils are not able to pay their school fees. The
staff consists of 26 teachers and the school suffers from a huge lack of
financial means. But the relaxed atmosphere, the pride and
studiousness of the pupils were impressive.
With only 220 €
annually a child can be provided with a proper education, and his or her
chances to end up in poverty or prostitution are reduced considerably.
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