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High altitudes, extreme temperatures, harsh winters and mountainous terrain are the characteristics of this region. A long icy trek in the winters adds to the woes when children travel to their boarding schools post the winter break.
The schools are so remote that the teachers have to stay away from their families to perform their duty. Frequent teacher training in the latest pedagogy and exposure experiences for the children is a big ask.
Many remote villages of the IHR are still off-grid and off-network preventing the children from getting access to the vast Digital resources available to the children in other parts of the country.
In spite of these challenges, the community extremely values education. Children as young as 3 years old stay away from their parents, in boarding schools in far away towns, for want of Quality Education near their homes. Eventually, the families are forced to migrate to the cities and towns to be with their children.
17000 ft Foundation was born to address this exodus of families from frontier mountain villages by facilitating Quality Education to the children near their homes even in the remotest hamlets of the IHR. The foundation believes that geography and distances should not be barriers for providing equal learning opportunities to the children of the IHR.
Presently, 17000ft has footprints in Ladakh and Sikkim and is working in 350+ remote schools to improve the quality of education in the Govt. Schools of the frontier villages and thus preserving the social fabric of these heritage villages.
