Samata Shiksha Niketan – School in movie sets
Inspired by the temporary movie sets in Mumbai Film Industry, Uttam Sanjel started school on bamboo structures in various parts of the country.
As a youth, he went to Bombay to make his career in movie industry. After seeing terrible condition of kids on the streets of Bombay and the street children on the train station he came back to Nepal and started working for the community. Uttam Sanjel came up with an idea to construct Bamboo school that has the lowest infrastructural costs. He calls his schools Samata Shiksha Niketan, ‘places of study and peace’. Samata School charges a fee of Rs 100 per month for all the grades from nursery to Class 10. This fee has been in constant since its establishment on 2001. Samata School has now been expanded into 11 different locations within 8 district, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Kavreplanchowk, Sindhupalchowk, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, and Makawanpur. (photo credits – Rajiv Mulmi)
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