Potential porters of past are at school at present!!

We went to the top of the hill where my village is. It was September 2005. We were there to take footages for the documentary. Carl, Katie and Hari were with me at that time. We reached at the top of the hill after the hard climb of four hours. We met some temporary shelters made by the nearest villagers. They shift to the top of the hill in that season (July to November) with all of their family and pets. We had to capture little footage of their lifestyles, activities and had to take interview to children and to parents. We went to the ground where few kids were looking after their pets and were playing. She couldn’t answer the simplest question we asked, then we moved to a temporary shelter where about 25 children and few parents gathered. We asked question to few of them about their plan after 5 class. They said they are going to stop study because they can read and write Nepalese script now and none can cheat them in labour work. We gave little speech there about the importance of education. Hari( my brother) gave little speech in local language, and we informed them that we were going to start a project there to assist them for study. After 8 month, when I went to school with Nara to launch the project, I saw both the boy and girl who were talking about leaving school after 5 but they are admitted at 6 class now! That means they changed their mind? I hope so. Similarly from another village none left school after 5(normally they used to leave school after 5 or after failing at 6 or 7 class). These children would be laborer or porter now if they left school but luckily they are at school now and let’s hope they won’t give up the spirit they have now. They deserve the leadership of the rural community in the development and other field. ECWZ is always aware of it’s role to upgrade the life of these disadvantaged locals