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The Lumla nunnery / girls’school project , - a school for girls. This is the site where the nunnery /girls’ school is being built, providing education and housing for around 80 girls aged 8 to 14.
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The Lumla nunnery / girls’school project, - a school for girls. This is the site where the nunnery /girls’ school is being built, providing education and housing for around 80 girls aged 8 to 14.
The current total estimate for the construction of the nunnery / girls’school, which include classrooms, dormitories, library, dining hall, kitchen, clinic and temple, is approx. E 500,000.
The project has obtained all official planning and building permissions and is recognized as an official charitable trust in India.
Work on the foundations started at the end of September 2012.
Youngsters from Lumla and some of the closer villages volunteered helping with some of the ground work.
The local support means that the nunnery / girls’ school project is fully appreciated and accepted by the local communities.
The plot of land is located on a steep hillside of the Himalayas at an altitude of around 2400m above sea-level.
…but construction work is seasonally restricted by severe winter weather and monsoons causing flooding and landslides.