For our first project, The Santi School Project built a six-room primary school in a Tamang village in Ramche in the mountains of eastern Nepal. Inaccessible by road, Ramche is a 2-hour hike uphill from the nearest town.

The Shree Santi Primary School teaches Nepali, English, and math to 75 children, from kindergarten through 3rd grade. We plan to add a new grade each year until our students reach 5th grade.

Local residents built the school by hand. Since there is no road to the village, the materials had to be carried from the nearest town. Stone was cut out of the mountainside.

Two Nepali groups have helped. The Society of Ex-Budhanilkantha Students-North America and the Nationwide Scholarship Program, which together built a World Bank-funded library and computer center in Barabise, near Ramche.

Construction was completed in Spring 2008 with the school opening for classes in May 2008.