After much waiting, the time has arrived for us to finally make the journey to Taplejung after many years. Despite competing professional pressures, we've carved out two weeks from our schedules to make the long-awaited trip to Lingtep, Taplejung. Prior to our departure, we're trying to meet up with a friend who has extensive experience with school building projects in Nepal and the associated community development that goes hand-in-hand with that. The goal of this trip is to do the preliminary needs assessment on.
Our starting point is an understanding that either we pursue building onto the Lingtep primary school, so that kids in the surrounding villages will have local access to education through grade 10 - or 'high school' (pre-SLC level) - rather than having to take up boarding in a regional school OR we pursue building from the ground up a new primary school in an area where village children are simply unable to attend any close schools. Our hunch is that we'll see there is a strong need for both.
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