The School today, and why we need you !

The School building (ground floor with classrooms and offices and first floor with hostel rooms), the playground and a temporary toilet block.

This year, the school teaches 250 children from Guptakashi and the surrounding villages. It hires 13 teachers and accomodates 20 children in the hostel. The land as well as the buildings are owned by the school.

The JVNS has deliberately chosen to provide education at fair prices, and to adapt the fees to the income of the families. Therefore, it suffers from a chronic lack of funds and it has to face loan repayments.

Current challenges

In order to become self-sustainable, the school needs to grow by increasing the number of children. There is a large demand for an English education in the area, but the school cannot meet it adequately because of this lack of funds.

Moreover, the school needs to extend the provisional affiliation granted by the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), which requires to build 7 more classrooms and a permanent toilet block.

The school cannot face these issues alone. From 2005 onwards, the French association Actions Jacques Vigne pour l'Inde has raised funds for the construction work. This partnership has been going on without any interference of the foreign association in the mission of the school, and the decisions are always taken by Mr. Lakhpat Singh Rana.

With the help of Dr. Jacques Vigne, we hope to gather the remaining 3 million rupees (for the classrooms and the toilet block) and to ensure a bright future for the children !