Srongtsen Bhrikuti School

BENEFICIARIES: Students of the Srongtsen Bhrikuti Primary and Secondary School

Location: Kathmandu

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The Srongtsen Bhrikuti Primary and Secondary School was founded in 1982 and is one of the four Tibetan schools in Kathmandu. As student enrollment increased, in 1988 the school was transformed into a boarding school, allowing it to provide better educational facilities and accommodate more children, many of them underprivileged or orphaned.

Today, the school hosts around 500 students and 65 staff members. The curriculum includes English, Nepali, Tibetan, mathematics, and science. Students also take part in a wide range of co-curricular activities such as sports and games, cultural programs, and philosophical debate.

This type of education aims to cultivate social values such as discipline, cleanliness, mutual understanding, cooperation, patience, and more—helping children grow into conscious and responsible individuals.

How your support makes a difference:

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, and as an outcome of recurring natural disasters, most parents have been unable to afford their children’s education. In the summer of 2021, responding to a request from the school principal, ASIA began supporting the school and its students through the Scholarship Project. The specific aim of this project is to provide continuous, long-term educational support for lower- and upper-secondary students from the most remote Himalayan communities.