Welcome to Education for Peace

compassion at a school in Leh

This is the Education for Peace website, we are a small charity set up to support Ladakh Rigjung Public School, Choglamsar in Leh. Leh is the capital of the Indian province of Ladakh, part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. Our purpose is to raise funds to support the day to day activity of the school. This literally means to put bread on the table, books in the classroooms and blankets on the beds. If you would like to know how you can help the children visit the help page. If you want to know more about our work and the needs we seek to address then please read on.

A Compelling Need

helping the children in the nomadic communities

Without practical support the school would struggle to survive, for many of the children this would simply be a disaster, they would have nowhere else to go. Our collective support allows the school to offer opportunities to some of the most disadvantaged children in the region. I cannot stress this point strongly enough, the school receives no institutional funding! Leh is one of the poorest and most inhospitable places in India. Ladakh is home to communities living at some of the highest altitudes on the planet (over 5,000 metres), many villages remain cut off from the outside world for months during the winter. Some communities are virtually illiterate; without this school many young people would have no opportunity for any kind of education. The school has up to 100 boarders resident at any time. Alongside six days of tuition, the school provides; food, healthcare, clothing and a real chance to fulfil potential. The 300 children at the school are the lucky ones, with more resources many more children could be helped. Please look at the gallery of the school and pictures from the nomadic communities for a clearer idea of the changes Education for Peace is supporting.

Why Us, Why You?

how to help the school

A chance meeting with the school's founder and Principal Lama Chonet Dorjee in 2008 started an informal relationship between the school and a small group fo friends in the UK. This relationship has developed over the last three years, and now there is a formally constitued small charity, several child sponsors in the UK and a number of fund raising projects. We support the school because we are in the right place at the right time, this may also be the reason why you wish to help too?